Lady GaGa Disses Britney?

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Lady GaGa has gotten caught up in one of her little ‘moments’ on stage again, this time telling a packed crowd of screaming fans at her recent London concert that she writes and does every single piece of her music by herself — which we all know obviously isn’t true, especially since GaGa herself has often credited her producers in the past.

“Now, I don’t know if you know this, but for those of you who don’t know, I write all my own music. Every single lyric, melody and note was created by me. I am not manufactured. I’m a bad cat and coming for you ’cause I believe in you and I. It’s not that I don’t like to be humble, it’s just that pop music has a pretty bad rap,” Gaga explained.

What an odd thing to say.

I wonder what RedOne, Darkchild, Fernando Garibay, Rob Fusari, Akon, Martin Kierszenbaum and about fifty other engineers, backing vocalists, producers, writers, musicians, marketing assistants and A&R reps would have to say about that.

“Uh, yeah, she does it all herself – real talented,” mutters Jimmy Iovine, somewhat distracted as he counts royalty cheques from The Fame and orders another Ferrari online.

Anyway, back to the concert: After ranting to the crowd about her talent, GaGa then performed her rock ‘n’ roll tune “You & I” – but first she made certain to assure the fans of her radio-tailored dance-pop that her upcoming album Born This Way wouldn’t be filled with “a bunch of rock ballads or anything”.

“Want to hear ‘You and I’? This one is going to be on Born This Way. It’s one of my favorites. The album doesn’t have a bunch of rock ballads or anything, but this is one of them,” she said before launching into the song.

GaGa also made more claims of her immense talent at the London show, screaming to the audience “SURPRISE! A pop show and the bitch can sing!”, seemingly forgetting that Pink, Beyonce, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson and virtually every single pop star on the planet other than Britney Spears’ sings live during their concerts and performances.

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Nicole Morier Working on 7th Album

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Unless you’re a hardcore Britney Spears stan or a fan of underground electro-rock, then you may not be familiar with singer-songwriter Nicole Morier. Besides her own solo music, Nicole is best known for co-writing three Britney songs — “Heaven on Earth” from Blackout, “Rock Me In” and the wacky “Mmm Papi” from Circus – and now in a new interview, Nicole has revealed that she’s currently penning tracks for Britney’s seventh album, and that she’s already heard one of the tracks that Britney has recorded for the upcoming LP.

“I’m writing songs at this moment and I heard one that she recorded that someone else wrote that sounded amazing. I’m excited to see what she will come up with this time. She always impresses me by how innovative and current she sounds.”

It gets better. Nicole also goes on to say that she’d love to get Britney in the studio with epic electro band MSTRKRFT (listen to one of their best songs here).

“I worked with MSTRKRFT last month. They don’t do too much pop songwriting, but I’m convinced it’d be so great to get their sound to someone like Britney, it’s so heavy.”

Please excuse me for one moment as I shake and cry.

*shaking & crying*

There was also some random Britney praise scattered throughout the rest of the interview.

“I love how Britney can twist a dark lyric like “Womanizer” into an upbeat club anthem.”

“I heard Toxic and was just blown away by its pop perfection. To me it’s one of the best dance pop records of all time.”

On “Heaven on Earth: “I wrote it from a rather dark place and it was the first time I really wrote something so unmasked and honest. Britney sounds so amazing and Freescha did such a cool production as well.”

Nicole Morier is clearly a very intelligent, honest and well adjusted young woman.

Just so you know, I consider “Mmm Papi” to be one of the craziest, most exciting and underrated non-singles of Britney’s career. Plus, “Heaven on Earth” is such a twisted love song, and happens to be Britney’s personal favorite track from Blackout, so I’d love to see them work together again.

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Britney Spears Going alternative on New Album?

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To add yet another genre into the already overcrowded mix for the new Britney Spears album, it looks like the Queen B could be playing around with some alternative sounds after the music publisher of Estonian pop singer Kerli let the news slip during a live chat on Kyte TV yesterday.

When asked about the direction of Kerli’s upcoming sophomore album, the music publisher said that Britney is making a dance record and that she’s actually heard several of the tracks that are being considered for Britney to record. She then described them as being “very electronic” and “kind of alternative”, adding that they’re “very different” from anything Britney has done before.

Fitting in with the alternative theme is news that Britney is working with producer Rusko, who is responsible for the new M.I.A. single “XXXO”.

Earlier last week Britney’s management released a statement regarding her relationship with her agent/boyfriend Jason Trawick, mentioning that the singer has been “busy in the studio working on her next album”.

Very exciting stuff. Perhaps we can get another “And Then We Kiss”, a song that is one of the most underrated and brilliant of Spears career. Thanks to Ethan for this news.

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Darkchild On Working with Britney

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After the Britney Spears demo of the Lady GaGa hit “Telephone” leaked online yesterday it caused an online frenzy which made news headlines around the world (literally), so the producer of the song Darkchild was forced to do a live broadcast on Ustream today to clear up the controversy surrounding the track.

The hitmaker said that the leaked version was the first demo they did for the song and was completely unmixed and unmastered, and then went on to insist that he wasn’t behind the leak and wouldn’t be leaking the final version.

Now moving on from that old Circus B-side and onto the good stuff, Darkchild also spoke about Britney’s upcoming seventh studio album spilling some exciting details about the secretive project.

“[Britney's manager] Larry Rudolph came to my house and we had an incredible conversation about Britney’s new album. We talked about the direction of her album, he gave me some insight into the direction and he wants me to work on stuff… So with that said, “Telephone” did what it had to do and we’re very pleased with the results, but now I’m about to put 200% of my focus into writing a new smash for Britney’s new album… An international smash…

“I think the fans deserve it, I think Britney deserves it and I can’t wait to get back into the studio with Britney. I’m about to go crazy on making something that’s so crazy. Since the conversation with Larry Rudolph I’ve studied some stuff from her last album and the Blackout album, and that was great stuff but I’m gonna bring something a little bit greater. I’m gonna give it my all to deliver something that’s crazy, crazy amazing for Britney.

“The conversation with Larry went great, I know exactly what the direction is and I’m gonna kill it! I’m gonna create the most incredible, unbelievable track that you could ever think of to hit the planet earth, the galaxy, around the world, all of that [laughs], for Britney Spears!”

I’m not a fan of either version of “Telephone”, but it was obviously left off Circus for a reason so anything that makes the final cut for the next album will have to be really good, just like all her albums.

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Britney Spears Scores with '3'

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It’s now been over ten years since Britney Spears released her debut album …Baby One More Time, which went 14x platinum in the United States and sold over 25 million worldwide, and what better way to celebrate Britney’s success than a brand new single produced by the man who helped launch her career?

“3″ is the official lead from Britney’s upcoming best of compilation The Singles Collection, and is produced by the singers most well-known collaborator Max Martin. The Swedish hitmaker also helmed a number of Spears biggest tunes from “…Baby One More Time” to “Oops!… I Did It Again” and “Stronger”.

Wow, if there was ever a song to mark Britney’s 10 years of ruling the pop scene than this is it. The club-heavy ode to group sex that is “3″ contains everything that makes Britney, Britney. It’s a perfect pure pop record!

The beat is a certified dancefloor filler, it’s a relentless and doesn’t stop, becoming more intense as the song picks up steam until it finally climaxes like a musical orgasm. The way it picks-up and stops, then changes tempo is amazing. The hook is insanely infectious, and actually rivals the catchiness of “Oh baby baby” and “Gimme gimme more, gimme gimme”

The lyrics are classic Britney; they’re flirty, sexy, provocative, tongue-in-cheek, and full of the cheeky faux-innocence we’ve come to expect from the girl who once tried to convince us that she was a ‘virgin’. This point is further driven home as Britney chants the hook like it’s a sexed-up nursery rhyme.

Vocally Spears comes across quite similar to “Mannequin” from her Circus album, with her voice being fed through autotune to the point where she sounds like a singing fembot crossed with a blow up a doll. What Britney does brilliantly though (and has done her whole career) is her ability to add her unique personality to the song.

Despite being heavily produced Britney never lets the song swallow her and she lets us know that she’s the one in charge. She also shows us why she’s one of the most successful female artists of all time by delivering yet another flawless anthem, maintaining a consistency and quality in her music that’s rarely seen in the genre.

Some people may argue that they wanted a more urban Britney this time around, but I think it was important that this record be completely pop. It’s how she started so it only makes sense that it should be how she celebrates her 10 year anniversary and new greatest hits compilation. Brilliant!

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