Muumuse: "autumn Goodbye", A Look Back At Britney's Seasonal Bop

[Pokémon Spears]

So Muumuse did an article about the amazing song Autumn Goodbye as a tbt. Don't know if AP.

 

 

There’s always time for a #TBTney, and what better way to celebrate the current season than a fall-themed flashback?

Britney‘s debut album is, of course, most synonymous with pop maestro Max Martin, who would produce the album’s most iconic offerings — including “…Baby One More Time†and “(You Drive Me) Crazy†— at Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, alongside fellow talented Swede-pop penners like Rami Yacoub, Per Magnusson and Kristian Lundin.

But before all of that even happened, Britney was first sent into the studio (in New Jersey!) with Eric Foster White in 1997, the producer whose previous work included iconic jams like Dannii Minogue‘s “Wish You’d Stop Wishing†and Whitney Houston‘s “My Name Is Not Susan.†And, according to Mark Hughes’ Buzzmarketing: Get People to Talk About Your Stuff, it was White who was responsible for shifting Brit Brit’s voice from her natural lower register to that iconic baby (bay-beh) sound:

When she first entered the recording studio for the Jive Records recording sessions, Britney Spears’s voice was much deeper than her highly recognizable trademark voice of today. her delivery sounded much like something from her earlier performances on Ed McMahon’s

Star Search

— lower, and less poppy. Eric Foster White changed all that. With Britney’s flexible voice, he shaped her voice over the course of a month to where it is today — distinctively, unmistakably Britney.

With White, she recorded some of the record’s most under-appreciated and thoroughly Gooberney gems, from the prophetic, Pepsi sponsorship-predicting “Soda Pop†to the really cool, funky and different “E-Mail My Heart.†(Everyone’s still doing the emails, y’all!)

But beyond some of the sillier moments on the record, B-Girl also recorded a track with White called “Autumn Goodbye. The song was selected as the B-side to “…Baby One More Time†and, as a result of the A-side’s earth-shattering success, sat directly in the the shadow (REFERENCE) of “Baby.â€

Immediately, “Autumn Goodbye†kicks off with a most urgent declaration: “I never promised you a happy ending!/You never said you wouldn’t make me cry!/But summer love will keep us warm long after our autumn goodbye, autumn goodbye…â€

From there, Brit bops along on top of a very ’90’s dance-pop pulse (you can almost hear the AOL trial CDs coming through the speakers), kissing her summertime sweetie goodbye just in time to watch the leaves change. A prophetic move, considering some of today’s pop stars are still finding themselves journeying into the woods. Nostradamusney strikes again!

This one’s also a win for lovers of Vocalney, as she starts belting and riffing (“Don’t forget, I remember, bay-bee…bay-eee!â€) her way through. Let’s just hope we get a return to these kind of flawless vocals on B’s upcoming artsy-fartsy left lane opus!

“Autumn Goodbye†might not have been the strongest offering from B’s debut (“I Will Be There†remains perhaps her greatest unreleased single to date), but it’s still an essential and majorly nostalgic cut, especially on a fall day such as this.

Red leaves and blue tomorrows forever.

[PopMusicJunkie]

 @ muumuse.  I love reading his reviews.  

 

All the work she did with Eric Foster White is some of the best she has done vocally, and "Autumn Goodbye" is def a good example. 

[sumladfrompa]

So many truth bombs dropped in this well-written article (I Will Be There will always slay). Thanks for sharing! 

[Maria Spears]

So Eric Foster White shaped her voice.. I always heard rumors that her record label made her change her voice but i didn't know for sure.

[Ariana Grande]

Don't know how to feel about the "he completely changed her voice" thing.

 

I love her voice, but the voice she used to have was wow-worthy. Now GP think she's not a singer, but an entertainer. Which is a mistake, because she sings, she's just not a vocalist anymore.

[Maria Spears]

Don't know how to feel about the "he completely changed her voice" thing.

I love her voice, but the voice she used to have was wow-worthy. Now GP think she's not a singer, but an entertainer. Which is a mistake, because she sings, she's just not a vocalist anymore.

I know i was thinking about the same thing. That White guy made her voice a trademark and you always know its her when you listen to it, but now its not as good as before. Her voice now its unique and made her a superstar but sometimes i wish she could make ballads with her old register like those old videos of her.

Maybe she could if she tried, singing is like playing an instrument you need to practice to be better

[Ariana Grande]

I know i was thinking about the same thing. That White guy made her voice a trademark and you always know its her when you listen to it, but now its not as good as before. Her voice now its unique and made her a superstar but sometimes i wish she could make ballads with her old register like those old videos of her.

Maybe she could if she tried, singing is like playing an instrument you need to practice to be better

That's why I was so freaking excited when Larry said she was taking singing lessons That lying son of a bitch

[Maria Spears]

That's why I was so freaking excited when Larry said she was taking singing lessons That lying son of a bitch

http://youtu.be/8tIrwsJfS2c

She's fucking perfect in this video

[Pokémon Spears]

So Eric Foster White shaped her voice.. I always heard rumors that her record label made her change her voice but i didn't know for sure.

 

 

Don't know how to feel about the "he completely changed her voice" thing.

 

I love her voice, but the voice she used to have was wow-worthy. Now GP think she's not a singer, but an entertainer. Which is a mistake, because she sings, she's just not a vocalist anymore.

I know, even though I love the "Britney voice" and it's almost like a drug for me, I wish we could have more songs with the original voice she used to have

[Ariana Grande]

I know, even though I love the "Britney voice" and it's almost like a drug for me, I wish we could have more songs with the original voice she used to have

Perfume tho That was like a ray of light in Britney's modern-day carreer And it got paid dust So underrated.

 

Even on YouTube, people were like "Oh, so this is how she sounds without autotune.. Not bad!" And I was like

 

#Vocalsney4B9

[Pokémon Spears]

Perfume tho That was like a ray of light in Britney's modern-day carreer And it got paid dust So underrated.

 

Even on YouTube, people were like "Oh, so this is how she sounds without autotune.. Not bad!" And I was like

 

#Vocalsney4B9

But I think she used to have an even deeper voice, like when she sang Love can build a bridge on that TV show.

I love her songs anyway, so it's not like I hate the voice we get on her songs, I love them , but I just wish we could have at least one song with a deeper voice.

[Ariana Grande]

But I think she used to have an even deeper voice, like when she sang Love can build a bridge on that TV show.

I love her songs anyway, so it's not like I hate the voice we get on her songs, I love them , but I just wish we could have at least one song with a deeper voice.

Oh I know, I was just saying that proof of her deeper voice is Perfume, and she can go lower proof of that is Stronger (the "baby" parts)

And I feel ya bruh

[MadDennis]

I remember I was reading maybe 8 months ago an article about Autumn Goodbye, it's so flawless, it should have been in the standard edition 

[PopMusicJunkie]

I love Britney's trademark sound, and I think her work with Eric Foster White is some of her best, but I would kill for songs that are sung in her actual register too. 

 

 

 

Just two prime examples of her singing effortlessly live when she is in her comfort zone.  

[paula24bs]

f*ck yeah! they're given the deserved atention to this flawless song...I've been listening to this song like crazy lately...

[breakitdown]

Ooh, reading this review made me listen to this song again and boy, it catapulted me back into childhood. Such a great song that I played so often. Such a classis for me.

 

There's something so cute about this song that makes me all happy.