Oops!… I Did It Again

Posted by New Admin on Saturday, July 25th 2009

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Yes, she did. Even if the title track’s chorus is a blatant rip-off of the Barbra Streisand/Barry Gibb duet, “Woman in Love,” it’s still darn catchy–much more than anything from 1999′s …Baby One More Time (save the album’s fab title tune, of course). With the rest of the 12 songs here, the teen queen pretty much delivers a remake of her last album. Songs like “What U See (Is What U Get)” and “Stronger” show Swedish songwriter-producer Max Martin in his element, churning out ano…
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Kagami Said,

July 25th, 2009 @2:56 pm

I don’t understand music these days. Is it thoroughly IMPOSSIBLE for an artist to come up with *original* and *new* material? Britney Spears has got to be the most artificial singer around, and I’m not just talking about her “assets”. Britney as an “artist” is a manufactured Barbie-like rip-off. Anyone who’s old enough to have lived through periods where *real* music existed (until approximately 1993) will agree that Britney is an almost carbon-copy imitation of Debbie Gibson. But I suppose it doesn’t matter anyway. Most Britney fans are probably too young to remember her.

As for the songs on this album, they all sound familiar and overly-produced. like amazon.com’s review stated, the chorus in “Oops I Did It Again” sounds like a complete Streisand/Barry Gibb rip-off. Any one of the ballads on the album could be mistaken for those of the likes of, well, anyone. Originality? Where? And Britney’s remake of “Can’t Get No Satisfaction” will literally make you cover your ears and frantically reach for the “skip” button on the stereo. Mick, I’d sue.

Britney may have a talent for mutilating classics to their pulp, but the talent of singing is still one she has NOT mastered. The irritating combo of a raspy voice, “baby”s and “uh uh” sounds are enough to give you a splitting headache..and I speak from experience. Someone get this girl some lessons..QUICK.

Nowadays lots of critics keep saying music is dead. Well, they’re right. Britney has killed it.

Philantha Said,

July 25th, 2009 @4:11 pm

5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Music!
This is simply great music! Worth every penny and I can easily download it onto my ipod. Plus buying the cd is actually less expensive than downloading it from iTunes.

Baxter Said,

July 25th, 2009 @4:18 pm

5.0 out of 5 stars
Here we UP go again
The featured review of this CD from 2001 states, ‘History has shown us that these “artists” dry up as quickly as they came. Menudo, New Kids on the Block, Wham!, etc.

Anonymous Said,

July 25th, 2009 @4:38 pm

I think the old saying, “If we do not learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it” applies very well to this type of music. History has shown us that these “artists” dry up as quickly as they came. Menudo, New Kids on the Block, Wham!, etc. These bands have a life expectancy of about 4 years, absolute max. And when they do collapse under their own weight, they look like jokes to even their fans – the same fans that, in the height of their reign, would have told you they were musical geniuses sent from the heavens above. Here’s a theory Einstein never came up with: Britney Spears = Tiffany + updated glossy production. The reason that similar artists like Madonna manages to keep their career going longer is because she was actually DARING. Madonna isn’t the holy grail of recorded music either but she DID raise the bar; she was one of the first popular icons to tell women and girls it was fine to be open about their sexuality, while contemporaries like Spears and Aguilera merely exploit their own.

I believe strongly that anyone who does not write his or her own lyrics is not an “artist” or anything closely resembling it. I believe even more strongly that someone like this that covers a Stones song should be publicly hanged.

Why do people like this? Honestly, why? Song after song after song is exactly the same – politically correct verse/chorus/verse/chorus ditties, generally about shallow relationships that only uninteresting, Noxzema-reeking teenagers could appreciate. What happened to the value of *surprise*? Doesn’t anyone like to be *challenged* every now and again? I will be forever amazed at the fact that someone could find some merit in something that was so obviously put out because they knew you would buy it.

There are plenty bands out there that I don’t care for but I understand that people like them due to personal taste. I respect those bands as musicians because they’re writing their own music and put just a little bit of spirit behind it. But what is THIS? Did Banality become a genre of music suddenly? I don’t care how Spears tries to romanticize her career, she is a product existing only to move millions of units for greedy record execs and to sell “kewl” memorabilia.

I apologize if this review was bitter; I was fine with her pushing her generic, easily disposable dung on America until she did an awful remake of a song that actually didn’t suck. If N’Sync covers “Tomorrow Never Knows”, I’m going on a shooting spree in a Gap.

Limon Said,

July 25th, 2009 @5:32 pm

I am a teenage girl, and I would like to say that britney spears insults me to the core.

why is it insulting you ask? britney has said nothing in her limited lyrical content that hasn’t already been said multiple times before. she doesn’t curse. she doesn’t come off like a suicidal cutter. she’s parentally-friendly.

what’s insulting about this album is all of the things that people have admitted to liking about it. they admit that it is “bubble gum” pop. they admit that britney lip syncs. they admit that 99% of her sucess is attributed to her image and a good studio producer, and yet none of this seems to bother them, because the music is “catchy.”

this is not music.

music is playing to a crowd outside when it’s raining. music can be performed with as much power acoustically as it can in a studio. music is someone living through something and writing it down and singing it with the pain of memory.

music is not a bunch of guys in expensive suits sitting down to write a song that’s catchy enough for britney to dance to and make lots of money.

and that’s the bottom line folks. your money.

when you buy her CDs, you are saying that everything britney stands for is O.K. congratulations for becoming another mindless member of society. you have just sold out.

Paco Said,

July 25th, 2009 @6:27 pm

5.0 out of 5 stars
The finest female vocalist on the planet!
Who needs manufactured chick singers like Nico, Patti Smith or PJ Harvey when you have a REAL singer like Ms.Spears?

Anonymous Said,

July 25th, 2009 @8:38 pm

1.0 out of 5 stars
One of the worst albums of all time!!
Britney Spears = Queen of Whack!
I thought this was one of “Greatest Albums of All Time!” Back in 2000! OMG!

Nuncio Said,

July 25th, 2009 @8:52 pm

5.0 out of 5 stars
HER BEST & NOTHING ELSE COMPARES!!!
This is the best Britney has ever done. But her 3rd album would be the last time she worked with Max Martin who is the producer in charge of making her a HUGE SUPER STAR!!!

Phineas Said,

July 25th, 2009 @11:14 pm

4.0 out of 5 stars
Some Really Great Moments!
Very quickly, I enjoyed “Baby One More Time” and parts of “In the Zone.” I think “Britney” was her best. I didn’t much like “Blackout.

Van Said,

July 25th, 2009 @11:28 pm

5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Sophomore Album!
Britney Spears second release, “Oops!…I Did It Again” struck accord with the year 2000 generation and will go down in history to be a classic album. ‘Oops!

Shirlyn Said,

July 26th, 2009 @12:04 am

5.0 out of 5 stars
Britney at her best…
…for those too scared to attempt to like or praise Britney for her career. This review is for you.

Maconaquea Said,

July 26th, 2009 @12:16 am

4.0 out of 5 stars
3’5 Stars – She Did It Again
Why change something that ain’t broken?. “Oops!” takes off where “Baby One More Time ended, and that isn’t strange since it was a huge success.

Xiu Said,

July 26th, 2009 @1:23 am

5.0 out of 5 stars
THIS IS NOT A REVIEW FROM A KID!!! IM 16
Ok,britney is britney she have that thing you cant explain ,she have angel…and we love her!!this is a great pop cd for have fun and have melancolic songs really…