Never in my life would I have thought I would have to write a defense of Brittany Spears, but like the old punk song goes: Never Say Never.
So, here it goes. She has been served very poorly by people who made an awesome amount of money by her, not the least of which was K-Fed (I'm a better DJ, and I don't even DJ), her mom (who ought to be in jail for child abuse) and her sister, her manager, her law team and all the rest.
If she would ask me - and I'm sure she ain't about to do that - I would say A) Get the HELL out of LA, its a poser town, full of posers, and fake in a way that even makes fake look natural. Its no good. LEAVE.
b) Let me take you to some out of the way studio, and there are several, in England, or Muscle Shoals (close to where she grew up and would feel very at home) and make a great record. I can get you the best in the biz (they are whores, they work for money, they will show up) and do a real record. I have a fantasy of her doing Dylan's "Just Like A Woman" in the first person. Ya' know, a little Memphis Horns behind her, Sly and Robbie doing B&D. Or doing some other great covers that she could make as her own - because she does have pipes, and she can sell a song. I'd have her do "Grease" too, she was born to sing that song - Olivia Newton John does not do it justice, Brittany could. Maybe get the Prodigy boys or the Crystal Method guys behind her on that. I can hear that now. Hell I'd even giver her a shot at Lady Day's "God Bless The Child" cause I'm sure she has lived it. Get Warren Hanes in to play the lead line on his song "Beatifly Broken" or "Soulshine."
Revised lyrics for BS on BB
Mysterious - blown in with the night
All this beauty captured in a frame
Visibly shaken but never stirred - drives them insane
They see the way I play my men - and they have to know my name
I'm so beautifully broken - shaped by the wind
Dangerously twisted - Here I go again
They see the way I cast my spell - It's like drowning in moonlight
Discards them when I'm done - they're lost in my twilight
I move from star to star and I wonder why,
why it feels so right
I'm so beautifully broken - you can hardly see the flaw
Especially from a distance - which is always how I fall
Why do I fall for the dangerous ones - the ones that never learned to let go
And why do I lie to myself and pretend that I can break him
When I'm already so beautifully broken
Why do I fall for the dangerous ones - the ones that
Don't know how to let go
And why do I lie to myself and pretend that I can break him
When I'm already so beautifully broken
I'm so beautifully broken - shaped by the wind
Dangerously twisted - Here I go again
Here I go again
Kids, that's not just gold record ->-bleeped-<-, that's lifetime achievement time.