The Original Doll Sessions!

[MakeMySugarFall]

The Buzzfeed article referenced in this thread, for anyone who hasn't read it and is interested: https://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/britney-spears-original-doll-secret-history-lost-album

 

This is one of the most telling parts to me:

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However, multiple former employees of Jive told BuzzFeed they were unfamiliar with the album, and a source who worked with Spears during the time said Original Doll was never scheduled internally; anything Spears said about it was just her talking about her plans.

 

 

I have to agree with those who believe that OD was never more than just a simple concept.  

[Ariana Grande]

11 minutes ago, MakeMySugarFall said:

The Buzzfeed article referenced in this thread, for anyone who hasn't read it and is interested: https://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/britney-spears-original-doll-secret-history-lost-album

 

This is one of the most telling parts to me:

 

I have to agree with those who believe that OD was never more than just a simple concept.  

Thank you for finding it.

This is exactly what I was talking about the whole time.

If you go even further and find the Rebellion official release plan ruined by cuntdan miller then much better. It'll clear most doubts fans have had.

 

Several songs originated from this concept Britney had. Some made the cut, some didn't. This helps prove that OD (the concept) started BEFORE the ITZ era:

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Those who worked with Spears prior to "Mona Lisa" said she wanted to be more involved in the songwriting process. Songwriter Michelle Bell first met Spears in 2002, when she was in the studio working with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, who had remixed "Overprotected," a song from Britney's self-titled 2001 album.

 

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Songwriter Angela Hunte, who co-wrote Britney's "Do Somethin'," recalled one recording session with Spears in 2002 in a New York City studio...

 

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"Everytime" has been described as Spears' response to "Cry Me a River," and an apology: "I may have made it rain / Please forgive me / My weakness caused you pain / And this song's my sorry." Bell recalled the first time Spears played "Everytime" for her on the piano during their 2002 sessions. ("She definitely can play the piano, no one really knows that.") Bell told her she loved it, but Spears was hesitant about singing it for her A&R, the record label employee who would decide which songs would make the album.

"She said nobody really listens to her," Bell said. "She just wanted somebody to say I believe in you beyond this pop machine." Bell developed a good relationship with Spears and the pair worked on a number of songs together. "After a while, she sort of trusted me," she said. One song they wrote during the 2002 sessions, titled "Look Who's Talking," was about Timberlake but contained references in its lyrics only he and Spears would understand.

 

Spears wanted to experiment with her sound. "Chaotic," which became the theme song for her 2005 UPN reality show of the same name, was described by Bell as "animated." "(I've Just Begun) Having My Fun" sounded like a Britney-fronted No Doubt song, and "Falling" was country-influenced. She also wanted to try to record more R&B-sounding songs. "I think she wanted to go in an R&B direction like Justin was doing with 'Cry Me a River,'" Bell said. Spears' "Me Against the Music," which became the lead single for her 2003 album, In the Zone, bore more than a passing similarity to Justified's lead single, "Like I Love You," with its funked-out acoustic guitars and tight drum tracks.

 

Hunte called many of the songs that came out of these sessions "empowering." In regards to "Do Somethin'," Hunte recalled Spears thinking, "'I don't have to be unclothed to say what I'm thinking, I can just say it with these words. Leave me alone. I just want to do me.' I think what she meant by that is, I can just say what I feel. I don't have to be anything extra."

On "Take Off," Spears sang about tolerance, love, and peace. Bell called it her version of Michael Jackson's "Black or White." "It was about being tolerant about gay people. It was gay people, discrimination, basically loving yourself and being connected," Bell said. "I think it was ahead of Lady Gaga. I think people would have looked at her and thought she had something to say. It was ahead of its time. She talked about war and how war is wrong." In 2013, Bell tweeted some lyrics from the song: "They say get ready for the revolution / I think we oughta find some sorta solution."

 

But Jive wasn't impressed. "I think maybe they thought it was not close enough to her brand," Bell said. She called In the Zone "the filtered-down version of Original Doll, or the more pop version." She "wanted to make a record that was more vibey and more personal and honest," Bell said. Ultimately, Spears still hoped her songs would have their day. "I think she knew, I can come back to these songs later," Bell said.

 

[JoshLee]

I honestly don't care as long as we get new music  

 

I need some unreleased bops tbh  

[heartcore]

On 2017-6-17 at 3:42 AM, BLACKOUTBRlT said:

Read the thread. 

I said I don't care, I want a list of POSSIBLE OD tracks. 

 

 

And as I made it clear - there are no possible tracks. Mona Lisa is the only one we know was intended for Original Doll. Everything else is from a different era. I'm not sure where you're pulling this information from, but it's not true in the slightest. Michelle Bell even confirmed that Take Off + the rest of her tracks were not from Original Doll but are from around 2002.