Britney Spears Beats Underworld to the Future... and SXYLV
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Perhaps I'm contrarian; I never liked Britney's music, her press manipulations, her looks-- and found neither a sense of frisson nor schadenfreude over her recent, er, mishaps/crack habits... and by crack I "mean":http://www.britneycrotch.org/But now, now I have become her biggest fanboy. I'm a new fan for this reason: she makes Underworld sound dated. Let me rephrase that: Britney has beaten Underworld to the future.Having recently purchased both Oblivion With Bells (Underworld) and well, at least some of Blackout (Britney) I gotta say that Kevin Fed's Ex is more avant-garde. Yes, the Oops I Did it Again chick has techno-smacked the Dubnobasswithmyheadman boys into the past. Oh how the world has changed...Take a listen to Piece of Me by Spears, and then Crocodiles or Faxed Invitation by Underworld, and you'll probably concede that Britney's track has the more interesting sounds and beats, and that, most suprisingly, she even out-Underworlds Underworld in the vocal-manipulation department... all while the song still remains a hooky pop confection that you'll probably be hearing lots on the radio. (Of course one could argue I have become a fan of Bloodshy & Avant, who wrote/produced the track, but that's not nearly as as fun to write.)So: Britney gets the gold, and Underworld gets the silver in the race to the future. (I'll take the bronze, as it's my blog prerogative.)The song for this post, in keeping with the theme of vocoders and sonic manipulation, is SXYLV by Shinjuku Zulu-- it's shiny new, and is in the same electro-orbit as Justice, Mstrkrft, Daft Punk, etc. It's from the just-released Kiss the Honey, Honey EP. And here's the virginal iTunes link for SXYLV "HERE":http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=267459458&s=143441
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