Chris

I was originally thinking about getting tickets to her show here next month, but nah, I'm good,

pissed that she cut Bloodline, Fake Smile, Everytime, and One Last Time. but this whole show has been a hot mess. There's no stage presence, the crowd is dead, the lighting is so bad you can't see anything 75% of the time, the whole Nicki thing (and then her not coming back out for The Light is Coming lol), and last but not least the annoying AF deinterlace lines distorting the footage and the on screen VHS effects during the NSYNC performance.

Just SYNC.

Sooooo do we think it was just a one time deal, or do we think she'll keep performing it for a while?

HO LY SHIT ?????? THAT WAS AMAZING. ???? while I don’t think Britney is suddenly going to actually start singing live all the time, perhaps this means that for the next tour/residency/promo/whatever they will actually put in the full effort to do pre-recorded vocals to at least make it look like she is. There’s no reason she’s not at least singing Everytime each night though. We know she can.

this so much

lol Cathy is on like 75% of Toxic. How are we using that as a positive example?

I think only those 2 shouty ad-libs are her and the rest are Britney.

just because it was 320kbps doesn't mean it was truly the highest quality. Also m4a is more efficient at encoding than mp3 is. So while a 256kbps AAC may sound virtually identical to a 320kbps for most people, it's technically still better quality. Plus the "Mastered for iTunes" files are mastered specifically so that lossy files sound better than just simply being ripped from a disc.

Did you intentionally put all the mid-tempos on the first half of the album and all the up-tempos (except Just Like Me and Coupure Electrique) on the last half?

This is amazing!!! Had it on repeat the entire way to work this morning. Those other ad-libs wouldn't be as distracting if they weren't so loud.

What's the quality?

One of the first things I thought was that this was the album she would have made immediately following ITZ.