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Some fans have recently asked me several questions ranging from: ‘’Why do you no longer post all Britney related news’’ to ‘’Why do you rarely comment on articles’’ to ‘’Why are you so handsome’’. Ok, I’ve been asked two of those questions. Not going to say which two though…
Anyway, this 3-piece post is my attempt at answering your questions and creating, hopefully well-mannered, discussion amongst Britney fans. Let’s try and keep the posting of angry gifs and delightful terms such as ‘’DIAF’’ or ‘’GTFO’’ to a minimum. Amusing? Definitely. Constructive? No.
The main reason I no longer post every rumor regarding Britney is, quite frankly, because they’re usually nothing more than that. As much as people hate to admit it, Britney is no longer the promotional powerhouse that she once was in a galaxy far away from this one. Therefore, continuing to post rumors about her performing at the Grammy’s or VMA’s seems pointless because if she were doing that it would be in everyone’s best interest to announce it.
Think about it, what good would secrecy do for Britney(‘s team) or the platform where she’s performing? Announcements create more buzz, ratings and sales than if they kept it a secret. In my opinion, fans use this so-called secrecy because they desperately want to believe that she is promoting because many people seem to think that if Britney doesn’t promote there is something wrong with her. However, I feel that many people forget that Britney is no longer this care-free spirit whose life revolves around her career. She is an actual person who has, like she says herself, a life away from her life. People change and it’s plausible she has different priorities now. Until recently Britney had worked her entire life and never truly had time to figure out what she wants. What if she has figured that out now and came to the conclusion that simply being an entertainer is no longer it for her? That her not promoting as much actually is a sign that she is well and listening to her needs?
I’m not saying that’s the case but it is a possibility. I’m also not saying that she doesn’t love what she does because by all accounts it appears she does. I’m just saying it’s possible for her to love something and yet not let is control her entire life or her ability to aspire for other things or to spend time with her loved ones. Maybe she has found a balance and this is it.
Using this train of thoughts, it’s reasonable for me to assume that her GMA performance will be the biggest promotional push for ‘’Femme Fatale’’. It was announced during a huge even that is watched by 37 million people. When you have that audience you’ll astonish them with your biggest marketing strategy. Why would you keep something a secret when 37 million potential album buyers are watching? Therefore, until I hear something from either Adam or Britney I try and refrain from posting most promotional rumors because they just create more hysteria and, in the event they’re false, disappointment amongst Britney’s fans.
Another reason why my blog updates less frequently than others is because I focus mostly on Britney and her career. I have no desire to post separately about anyone else in her life that didn’t choose to be famous. I occasionally post pictures of her kids, friends, family when Britney is with them or when a story about them directly affects Britney. To be honest, posting about her personal life at all is not something I enjoy doing but I accept that there’s a public interest in her life and so does Britney but posting about K-Fed’s (Yes, I still call him that. Sue me. I don’t care) financial woes or about Britney’s cousin’s sister’s friend’s brother’s garden accident isn’t something I would post. Like I said, my main focus are Britney’s professional activities. If there’s huge movement on the career front you will see less posts about her personal life. Vice versa, if there’s less movement on the career front I’m a little more willing to post about her personal life.
The final reason is that I simply refuse to post outlandish claims fabricated by toilet paper…ummm, I mean, tabloids. Claims such as Britney beating her children are ridiculous merely for the fact that she loves her children but most importantly she’s under a conservatorship and Kevin retains full custody rights. Do you really think anyone would allow Britney to hurt her children?
Basically, I use common sense to decide whether or not to post something. Or better said, I use what I personally see as common sense. It might not be how you feel but it's how I see things.
Do you have anything else to add? Leave a comment and let me know because I’m always open for a healthy discussion.
Stay tuned for part 2 which will be out tomorrow and discuss why I usually refrain from posting comments.
Oh and just because I’m a gif slut…
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The following italicized article is from www.mtv.com:Britney Spears is a month away from the release of Femme Fatale, and nearly every day, she's teasing fans with samples of some of the songs on the album, including the latest, her song with will.i.am, "The Big Fat Bass." Now, longtime collaborator Rodney Jerkins is opening up about hitting the studio with Spears.
"Britney's always great to work with. I've worked with Britney for 12, 13 years now," he told MTV News. "It's always great to work with someone when you work with someone time and time again; it's always great, and it always gets better. And just to see her evolve as an artist, it's an amazing, amazing thing."
Jerkins worked with Spears in the past on "Overprotected (Darkchild Remix)" and "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" in the early 2000s, as well as her leaked version of Lady Gaga's "Telephone," when she was recording Circus.
This time around, he said Spears knows exactly what she wants musically on the album. "She was very hands-on. She had a lot of ideas for me," he said. "She's great. She gets it. She is a top-notch veteran pro at this now."
She might be getting some help from Jerkins, but Dr. Luke and Max Martin are executive-producing the album, and Jerkins had nothing but the best to say about the production team. "I never spoke to them, [but] those guys are just great, and the stuff that they've been doing is just really, really great stuff," he said. "I'm sure with their hands on it, it's great."
Spears herself has described the album as "moody, edgy pop with A LOT of energy," hinting that many of the songs will be uptempo, and Jerkins noted that the songs he's been writing for her have certainly fit that label. "I know the songs that I do are uptempo," he said. "The stuff I've done, I think, will kind of shock people. I got a chance to go out my box a little bit too. She's great. Britney's just awesome."Source: MTV
Credit goes out to MuuMuse and Pop On And On.
The following italicized article is from www.mtv.com:On Friday, Britney Spears took another teasingly small step in promoting her upcoming Femme Fatale album, releasing a video in which she announced that she'll perform on "Good Morning America" on March 29, the day the LP drops.
The short video clip temporarily calmed the increasingly anxious Britney fans, who had been wondering, "Where is Britney?" It's been six weeks since first single "Hold It Against Me" was released. Since then, Britney has hosted a Q&A session with fans on Twitter and premiered the song's video on MTV, but she's been largely missing from the public eye.
We know the pop princess is still busy putting the finishing touches to her album — she tweeted a picture of her and producer will.i.am at the recording studio recently — but it does strike us as strange that a mere month away from the album release, Britney has not done a single promotional interview or live performance.
In the months before releasing her last album, Circus, Brit had appeared at theVMAs and onstage at Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour, performed on the British "X Factor" and shows in France and Germany, and aired the revealing documentary "Britney: For the Record" on MTV.
So, why the relative silence this time around? Is Britney being shy, or maintaining an air of mystery until closer to the big reveal of her album?
"The girl's coming back, and her music's doing well," PR expert Howard Bragman told MTV News. "Coming back is a hard thing to do, and when you've been in the spotlight as long as Britney Spears has been, it's hard to maintain that. The fact that she's still relevant musically is quite a feat."
While Lady Gaga has performed on the Grammys and made appearances on "60 Minutes," "The Tonight Show" and "Good Morning America" since releasing "Born This Way," Bragman cautioned against comparing Brit and Gaga.
"Public relations, when done well, is not one size fits all," Bragman explained. "You've got to know who you're working with and what their DNA in the public eye is, and everybody has a different DNA in the public eye."
Perhaps Britney, now into the 13th year of her career, has decided that she doesn't have to go crazy working the promotional circuit, especially since she is a mother of two young boys. Unlike Lady Gaga and other relatively new pop stars like Katy Perry or Ke$ha, Spears has been there, done that and is no longer so hungry for success. She did her time on the nonstop promo circuit back in her ... Baby One More Time and In the Zone days, and maybe she's content to let the music speak for itself now.
Or perhaps the worrying fans have jumped the gun, and her team is about to surprise us all with a slew of appearances and performances. All we know for sure is that, promotion or no promotion, Britney is still very capable of keeping us intrigued.Source: MTV
The following italicized article is from www.tmz.com:Britney Spears has just learned .... it pays to have a conservatorship, and pays VERY well.
TMZ has obtained legal documents in the conservatorship case, showing that in December 2008, the assets controlled by Britney's conservators totaled $2,826,362.68.
Now get this ...TMZ has learned ... exactly one year later -- in December, 2009 -- the assets controlled by the conservators swelled to $27,500,000 ... almost a 10 fold increase in 1 year.
Most of the gains came from Britney's wildly successful Circus Tour.
As for the assets at the close of 2008, there's an interesting breakdown. Britney's "furniture and equipment" was valued at $1,551,026. Her jewelry, furs and antiques totaled $264,988.
Now the figures are deceiving. The conservators only control a portion of Britney's total estate. She has a lot of money and property in various trusts and other business entitites, which the conservators do not control.Source: TMZ
A little bird told to Untouchablebritney.net that Britney and MTV are preparing something special to us!
We heard Britney is doing a performance but we don’t have more details for now.
Stay stuned for more information!Source: Untouchable Britney
The following italicized article is from www.justjared.com:Britney Spears makes her way out of a recording studio and hops into her waiting car on Thursday (February 24) in Burbank, Calif.
Yesterday, the 29-year-old pop singer said goodbye to Louisiana as she made her way through the airport with her sons Sean Preston and Jayden James.
FYI: Brit’s sweatshirt is from Shirt Off My Back, a charity movement that gives children in Africa uniforms for every item of clothing purchased.
See more pics here!Source: Just Jared
The following italicized article is from www.mtv.com:Last week, fans were treated to the premiere of Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" video. The sleek, dark look at celebrity life was a new aesthetic for the star, who hooked up with Jonas Åkerlund on the clip.
While her dance scenes were choreographed by Brian Friedman, it was noted Hollywood martial-arts expert Steven Ho who helped Britney work out the moves to battle herself in the video.
"I've been very fortunate to have worked on a wide range of high-profile projects, and the video's producer, Hagai Shaham, thought my style would be a good fit with Jonas and Britney. I was brought in to train Britney, choreograph the fight and set up wires for the levitation shots," he told MTV News about joining the project.
"I've always wanted to work with Jonas," he continued. "I knew that a stylized fight would translate well with his trademark visuals, so I was thrilled about doing this project. Jonas wanted a superhuman fight with elements of brutality — that's right up my alley of how I approach an action scene, so we were definitely all on the same page throughout the process."
Not only were Åkerlund and Ho onboard for some mortal combat, but the star herself warmed up to the idea of battling a clone. "Britney was really excited throughout the whole process. It was a grueling shoot of dance and stunts, but her passion for the video and professionalism never wavered," he explained. "There were some pretty tough insert shots where we needed Britney to actually get hit in the face by 'herself.' We did several consecutive takes of this, and she had a lot of fun with it and was a great sport.
"Britney was very enthusiastic about learning how to fight; she's an athlete," he added. "I got that Jonas' concept was partially about the duality of self — we all deal with that, so who wouldn't have fun fighting their alter egos?"
The key, it seems, was making Ho's fight moves work with Friedman's dance routine. "It was really great working with Brian; he's an absolute professional. He was diligent about our fight style being cohesive with the dancing, and that's why it worked so well," Ho recalled. "Our rehearsals were on the same stage, so it was very helpful to have Brian's feedback from a dancer's point of view."
It seems that one of the most memorable moves in the fight, Spears' quickstep during the smack-down, was all her own.
"Britney was fantastic about incorporating what we had practiced in rehearsal, and as a consummate performer, she was able to take ownership by adding her own flavor to the fight. There's a quick cut in the video that features Britney taking a series of small shuffle steps in her heels. This is something she came up with herself that I thought added a nice break of 'cuteness' in the fight," he said. "Jonas drowned out the music here to highlight the tapping sounds, and it's really one of my favorite beats of the video."
Aside from the two Britneys, the other main characters in the fight were her sky-high heels and flowing gowns. "The wardrobe was one of the stars of the fight," he explained. "At first I was concerned about how to approach the long trains. There were discussions with Jonas and [stylist] B. [Åkerlund] and [fashion assistant Renelou Padora] about possibly shortening the train for safety issues. After I showed my wife [designer Nina Petronzio] the pictures of the dresses, she literally said, 'I will kill you if you cut those trains down.' We ended up incorporating the trains as 'weapons.' We treated them as if they were sharp blades, giving Britney reason to jump and evade around them." Source: MTV
The following italicized article is from www.justjared.com:Britney Spears and her sons Sean and Preston make their way through the airport on Wednesday (February 23) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The 29-year-old pop princess is heading home after a vacation to her hometown of Kentwood over the President’s Day weekend.
On Monday, Britney and her security team went to pick up some pizza. Brit waited in the car while a bodyguard went inside!
See more pics here!Source: Just Jared
The following italicized article is from www.tmz.com:If Britney Spears made half a million dollars from product placements in her new music video ... would you hold it against her?
Sources connected to Britney's video tell TMZ ... Spears netted a cool $500,000 for various product placements in her "Hold It Against Me" video.
We're told the dating site Plentyoffish.com, one of several companies featured in the vid, forked over "a couple hundred thousand" to feature their site on Brit's computer during the vid and saw immediate results ... a 20% spike in traffic the day after the video premiered. Source: TMZ
Today, attorney Christopher E. Schmidt, legal representation to country music's the Bellamy Brothers, released the following statement in response to pending legal action against pop star Britney Spears:
The Bellamy Brothers have been artists, in the true sense of the word, with over 50 hit songs; more than 20 of those songs reaching the No. 1 position in the country charts over the past 35 years. The music business has given them the rare opportunity to enjoy making a living writing and playing music all over the world. Even though David and Howard are some of the nicest and most down to earth guys you will ever meet, they are also smart and experienced businessmen. So naturally, David asked me for my legal opinion of whether or not the Britney Spears recent single "Hold It Against Me" infringed on the copyright of their song "If I said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" that David wrote in 1979.
In my opinion, it is not necessarily the similarity of the titles that is of legal concern. This would be more of a trademark issue. Rather, the issue is whether or not the exact lyrics "would you hold it against me" are used in the same way in the hook of the song. It becomes somewhat uncanny if you simply double the beat of the Bellamy Brothers’ song and match it up with Britney's version. Literally thousands of fans for both artists have also taken notice. They are scratching their heads questioning whether or not Britney’s song "lifted" part of the song previously written by David Bellamy. But for me, the scale tips substantially in knowing that Dr. Luke not only co-produced Britney's song with Max Martin, but that Dr. Luke also co-wrote the song with Max Martin and others.
This isn't the first time Max Martin and Dr. Luke have been accused of copyright infringement.
Dr. Luke was sued in 2007 for copyright infringement along with Avril Lavigne and her record label for “lifting” portions of Avril's hit song "Girlfriend." The suit subsequently settled in 2008. There is also a current Katy Perry song that features Snoop Dogg called "California Gurls" produced and co-written by Dr. Luke and Max Martin (among other writers, including Katy Perry) where The Beach Boys' record label has filed a diminutive claim against the writers and publishers of the song for credit and royalties. Dr. Luke was party to yet another copyright infringement suit in 2008 for the song "Feels Like Tonight" by Daughtry. Although this is not conclusive evidence that Dr. Luke intentionally lifted a phrase from a Bellamy Brothers song, it certainly shows a possible pattern and warrants a more serious look into the matter.
As a transactional attorney primarily focusing on managing my clients' careers and protecting their intellectual property, I had a duty to bring in the heavyweights to help us further evaluate the situation. I put a call in to Daniel Moskowitz who is a friend and colleague with the Nashville law firm King & Ballow. Daniel had mentioned to me before that one of the partners in the litigation section of his firm, Richard Busch, had won a multi-million dollar suit against Universal/Aftermath Records for Eminem. Richard also received a jury award of over four million dollars for his clients against Bad Boy Records. Most importantly, I recalled Daniel telling me that Richard recently established new precedence regarding copyright infringement in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit when the court affirmed a ruling that copyright infringement may occur by the copying of a single common word such as "Dog," if the alleged infringer uses that word in the new composition in the same way as it was used in the original musical composition.
This past week, the Bellamy Brothers and I met with Richard Busch to engage his services and handle this matter appropriately. Richard has submitted the two songs to a renowned musicologist for evaluation and expert opinion. From here, it is just a matter of trying to work things out amicably with everyone involved.Source: Bellamy Brothers' Official SiteBrit's legal team is gonna eat them for breakfast.
The following italicized article is from www.justjared.com:Britney Spears lays down low in her seat as her bodyguard heads into Pizza Shack to pick up lunch on Monday (February 21) in Louisiana.
Over the weekend, the 29-year-old pop princess went for a drive with boyfriend Jason Trawick to pick up some food at Sonic Burger.
After picking up food at Sonic, the couple took Brit’s boys Sean and Jayden to meet up with her sister Jamie-Lynn and niece Maddie for a fishing trip!
See more pics here!Source: Just Jared
The following italicized article is from www.justjared.com:Britney Spears and boyfriend Jason Trawick visit the drive-thru at Sonic Burger on Saturday (February 19) in Kentwood, Louisiana.
The day before, the couple, along with 29-year-old pop star’s two kids, Jayden and Sean, were spotted at LAX leaving Los Angeles.
See more pics here!Source: Just Jared
''Hold It Against Me'' is currently at #3 on Mediabase with 10559 spins and 63.801 million listeners.
Click here to vote for ''Hold It Against Me'' on your local radio station!Source: Break The Ice
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