Britney Jean isn't a bad album. There's just no cohesion

[onyx09]

Britney Jean is all over the place.First off it's marketed as personal. It opens on a good note with the inspirational Alien apart from the unnecessary voice pitch and infamous glitch, then she's tellling people to work bitch, then she's infusing r&b with country with Jamie lynn before she starts singing about God. Work Bitch and a song dedicated to God on the same album . I get that she wanted to incorporate a lot of different sounds and genres but the album didn't do a good job of making it all flow. In the zone is a perfect example of getting it right. She plays around with a lot of different sounds on this album but it all has a nice cohesive flow to it and it makes sense. The executive producer for Britney Jean was slacking.

[britneystanstan]

ITZ had its bumps when it comes to cohesion too tbh.

 

Not a lot of the songs on BJ are memorable. With FF, the songs may sound like each other, but most of them just sound great and worked hard on. Something about each song sticks to you.

[POMNEY :3]

I understand. The songs are just way to different to be on the same album but she did this considering that every song on FF was the same.

[PopMusicJunkie]

ITZ had its bumps when it comes to cohesion too tbh.

 

Not a lot of the songs on BJ are memorable. With FF, the songs may sound like each other, but most of them just sound great and worked hard on. Something about each song sticks to you.

 

 

In the Zone is all over the place sonically, but lyrically was speaking about single hood and yearning for, or trying to get over a past, love.  In addition to being single she was 21-22, asserting more creative control leading to the first time she wasn't chiefly working with Max Martin. I thought it all worked out, but can see how it is all "messy" too.

 

Britney Jean sounds like an album that was hastily thrown together because of a deadline that needed to be met.  It's hard to believe that these are the best 13 songs to come out of all those lunch dates will.i.am had with Britney.  Aside from a select few, most of the songs are just of real low quality, suffer from amateurish mistakes, or feature songs where the backing vocal is louder then the lead.  Not to completely bash the album, I do like that it is a departure from her previous album where she was the sex siren thru out.  (Femme Fatale is probably my 2nd favorite Brit album; very cohesive fun forward-thinking pop.)  BJ shows her insecurities & feeling isolated ("Perfume," "Alien"), her throwing caution to the wind ("Passenger"), and her religious faith ("Brightest Morning Star," "Hold on Tight" ).  We get bits of pieces of who she is as a person, it just should have been executed a lot better.  I think the melting pot of music genres is the least of problems with this one.

[NakedFreakshow]

[CIRCUS]

I dont like BJ because I don't like the music. the lyrics are great, but I hate sound of the album... it sounds too generic for me. its not good for my music taste

[JoshLee]

Mmmm don't care I still like it

[Pokémon Spears]

If we get back to BOMT and OIDIA, even Britney, you can see that what really defines a Britney Spears album, is that is not that cohesive. A Britney album should be a rollercoaster of emotions, uptempos followed by sad ballads, some rock inspired song, a cheesy song, you know? That's what a Britney album is, and that's why I prefer Britney Jean over Femme Fatale or Blackout. 

 

A Britney album must have this pallete of songs where you could pick your favorite, where everybody can pick their favorite. A "cohesive" album makes you love it, love all of it, or hate it, hate all of it.

I do like all of her albums, but that's why my favorite are OIDIA, Britney, Circus because they have so much diversity.

[britneystanstan]

If we get back to BOMT and OIDIA, even Britney, you can see that what really defines a Britney Spears album, is that is not that cohesive. A Britney album should be a rollercoaster of emotions, uptempos followed by sad ballads, some rock inspired song, a cheesy song, you know? That's what a Britney album is, and that's why I prefer Britney Jean over Femme Fatale or Blackout.

A Britney album must have this pallete of songs where you could pick your favorite, where everybody can pick their favorite. A "cohesive" album makes you love it, love all of it, or hate it, hate all of it.

I do like all of her albums, but that's why my favorite are OIDIA, Britney, Circus because they have so much diversity.

The songs on BOMT and OIDIA effortlessly flow into each other though, OIDIA being her most cohesive one. ITZ and BJ have the biggest flow issues imho

[Dangerous Dramatic]

I agree completely.

[Natooolee]

ITZ had its bumps when it comes to cohesion too tbh.

 

Not a lot of the songs on BJ are memorable. With FF, the songs may sound like each other, but most of them just sound great and worked hard on. Something about each song sticks to you.

 

 my ears! I cant hear this ITZ isn't perfect stuff.... lalalalala 

 

I dont like BJ because I don't like the music. the lyrics are great, but I hate sound of the album... it sounds too generic for me. its not good for my music taste

 

I think maybe this is part of my thing. The other thing is that there has to be SOME cohesion somewhere. sonically, lyrically, thematically. But at the end of the day I still only really like about half no matter how bad I want to love it. 

[FreshPrince]

listen this way, it feels really nice.

 

BRITNEY JEAN: DELUXE VERSION (2013)

 

01- WORK BITCH

02- IT SHOULD BE EASY FT. WILL.I.AM

03- TIK TIK BOOM FT. T.I.

04- PERFUME

05- ALIEN

06- BODY ACHE

07- TIL IT'S GONE

08- PASSENGER

09- CHILLIN' WITH YOU

10- DON'T CRY

11- BRIGHTEST MORNING STAR 

12- HOLD ON TIGHT 

13- NOW THAT I FOUND YOU 

14- PERFUME (THE DREAMING MIX) 

15- WORK BITCH (THE JANE DOZE REMIX) 

16- WORK BITCH (7TH HEAVEN REMIX)

[MIDAS]

I never listen to BJ anymore, since months..

[tarotx]

BJ is not sonically cohesive and the songs aren't in the order that best represents them imo. But the songs do lead themselves to a thematic cohesion if they would reorder them.

 

Try creating a new BJ playlist to see if you come up with a better listen for youself. For me my Alien Playlist works. It makes the listening richer. It flows better sonically and thematically for me.

 

There is a lot of looking back to the past and reflecting on where she used to be and where she is now. At different moments, for different reasons and with different responses. I wish people could get inside my head and get BJ like I have

 

There is a lot of being in a bad space because of worry, anxiety and not having that support. She has found the support via letting go of the bad times and that life by embracing love, family and god. She't thankful. BJ is such a mental and Spiritual album. We are inside Britney's head and heart as she worries but takes chances as she strives to "exhale". 

 

 

I think the huge problem with BJ is that Will i am went off doing his own thing and left the album to actually be EPed by Anthony Preston. Who has no skill as a general manager and is limited as a producer

 

But the main problem with BJ, when compared to her other albums, is that there is no instant pop hit sounding track. The best tracks are hard EDM explicit Work Bitch, the Urban straight sex talk song TTB and the down tempo songs. Nothing that instantly screams Pop radio.  Quite different for what people have come to expect from Britney imo. I think History will judge it better because EDM won't be as dated and we will be removed from the no promo performance era.

[Pokémon Spears]

The songs on BOMT and OIDIA effortlessly flow into each other though, OIDIA being her most cohesive one. ITZ and BJ have the biggest flow issues imho

Well, in that sense, ITZ is pretty weird indeed. But I don't know, Britney Jean is the first album I can listen to from beginning to end without skipping songs or getting bored. I don't know if that's because it's shorter or what, but even the most boring songs that could be BMS or CWY, are not that boring or annoying, at least for me. It's not her best album, and it doesn't have her best songs, but I think is pretty good.

Maybe the order of the songs should have been different, and that's what kills the flow, or it's just that it wasn't well planned the direction of the album, but I kinda like that messy combination. Maybe because I'm used to that, you see, I always put all of her songs from all of her albums in random, so I always have My Baby followed by Get Naked and then Rock Me In and Shadow or so.

I don't know, my point is that I don't find annoying at all Britney Jean, maybe just the production of each individual song is what could have been better, but as a whole, I think it is fine, but it's just my perspective.

[ashley]

i agree. its not bad. but its great either.

 

wb is the only song i still listen too 

[enzo]

I honestly like BJ as an album, but I think it's biggest flaw isn't its lack of cohesion. It's poor production of some of the songs tbh.

[Nelli Gaidai]

it's not that she did that. i bet she wanted it to go in a completely different direction. prob more faith wise but of course her team wouldnt allow that so they forced a sexy persona unto her once again. so sad it pisses me off

[Sabanoble]

BJ is not a bad album at all. What put many fans off was the GMA disappointment and Britney's attitude... Tbh after the GMA mess and seeing how Britney was, I was disappointed and didn't want to support another FF era.

[tarotx]

I personally don't see how GMA was a mess. Sure she got sick an didn't do more fan interaction but she announced Vegas and looked like a super star doing so.  During the interview her make up made her look like she was doing DWTS but the GMA audience is used to that look

 

TMZ and Breatheheavy making out like it would be a performance and the fans going insane made everything extreme.  

 

BJ is not a bad album at all. What put many fans off was the GMA disappointment and Britney's attitude... Tbh after the GMA mess and seeing how Britney was, I was disappointed and didn't want to support another FF era.

[Nina Dobrev]

 

In the Zone is all over the place sonically, but lyrically was speaking about single hood and yearning for, or trying to get over a past, love.  In addition to being single she was 21-22, asserting more creative control leading to the first time she wasn't chiefly working with Max Martin. I thought it all worked out, but can see how it is all "messy" too.

 

Britney Jean sounds like an album that was hastily thrown together because of a deadline that needed to be met.  It's hard to believe that these are the best 13 songs to come out of all those lunch dates will.i.am had with Britney.  Aside from a select few, most of the songs are just of real low quality, suffer from amateurish mistakes, or feature songs where the backing vocal is louder then the lead.  Not to completely bash the album, I do like that it is a departure from her previous album where she was the sex siren thru out.  (Femme Fatale is probably my 2nd favorite Brit album; very cohesive fun forward-thinking pop.)  BJ shows her insecurities & feeling isolated ("Perfume," "Alien"), her throwing caution to the wind ("Passenger"), and her religious faith ("Brightest Morning Star," "Hold on Tight" ).  We get bits of pieces of who she is as a person, it just should have been executed a lot better.  I think the melting pot of music genres is the least of problems with this one.

 

 

 

Ooh, you saucy bitch 

Spill that tea gorl

[ItsNathanbitch]

I think it's a good album tbh. But I agree that the cohesion isn't really there, however I don't particularly notice that if I enjoy an album. It's not absolutely perfect as we all know the production on some of the songs isn't the best, but it does have some of the best songs she's recorded in quite some time (Passenger, Hold On Tight, Brightest Morning Star, Alien etc) which show where she is at this stage in her life and who she is. 

[Julio]

It's like...

 

 

 

 

''Adios I'm out the door''

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

''Chillin Witchu,I'm chillin I'm chillin''

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

''It's like million billion''

 

 

[joannamarie__]

it just sounds incomplete and unconnected.. so yeah i totally agree

[Bianca]

_{it is my second fave album}