In fact it’s the album that introduced me and many others to dub step (Freakshow) and Blackout has been influential and copied a millions times over since 2007. Confessions was also more retro with just enough modern touches to bring it up to date. Madonna’s album was brighter whereas Blackout was darker. Blackout felt like Britney’s response to that album in that it was another non-stop dance record that was meant for the clubs and both albums even had songs that directly lifted I Feel Love by Donna Summer (Madonna’s was Future Lovers and Britney’s was Heaven on Earth.) Still these were just surface similarities because once you dug a little deeper the 2 albums were pretty different. It was a non-stop dance record that reasserted her dominance over the genre.
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Confessions dominated the globe for almost 2 years. 2 years before Madonna had released Confessions on a Dancefloor, which is easily her best post 90s album. In a lot of ways I could see her taking influence from Madonna again. It was a great! Britney had made the album I always knew was in her. The day it came out I went to Best Buy and bought it on CD. She is just a bully and I have never liked bullies growing up gay in the closet.ĭespite the backlash from her VMA performance I still kept my enthusiasm up for the Blackout. To this day I avoid things she’s in because that comment showed me how mean spirited and tasteless she is. Yet, the moment Sarah Silverman said Britney’s two boys were the cutest little mistakes ever pissed me off! How dare she talk about Britney’s children that way! I never really liked Sarah Silverman to be honest, but after that comment I found it her abhorrent and classless. When Sarah Silverman came on stage she started tearing into Britney which was no surprise because everyone back then tore into Britney. That said, it’s what happened later that made me even more upset. That may or may not have been the case but there was no doubt that Britney was not in a good place. It was actually heartbreaking to watch because it felt like Britney was performing against her will. She looked like she wanted to be anywhere but there throughout the whole performance. Now of course it wasn’t a disaster the way people make it out to be and she honestly looked good but that fire in her eyes that we saw in all her previous VMA performances was gone. Eventually she found coverage of the performance and I remember looking at her asking how it went and she just looked back at me and said “Not good!”Įventually we found video of the performance and yeah it was hard to watch. I remember sitting in the living room area of my apartment with my friend Jen and she was going through updated news stories on her laptop trying to find out how the performance went. We didn’t have cable in the apartment and live streaming was still not a thing yet. Then I found out Britney was opening the 2007 VMAs with a performance of her new song Gimme More. Some of my friends had given up on Britney and thought of her as a lost cause but my enthusiasm for all things Britney and this new album was so infectious that I got them pumped for new Britney music. I really missed Britney and I was getting all my friends as excited as possible.
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I was so psyched for this album I could barely contain myself. I remember hearing songs that didn’t end up on the album and earlier demo versions of songs like Heaven on Earth and Break the Ice. At that time though I didn’t need a boyfriend because I finally had a close circle of friends that I had lacked in high school who made me happy in a way I had not been in a long time.Ģ007 was also the early days of YouTube and I remember scouring the site for leaks of Britney’s upcoming album which now had the title of Blackout. It’s a lesson I feel everyone needs to learn at some point. I had dated enough at that point to realize being with a boy who was not right for me was worse than being single. I didn’t have a steady boyfriend but I didn’t care. In the fall of 2007 I had entered my senior of college and I was living with my friends in the senior housing apartments and hanging out with friends every night of the week.
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I was afraid that if things got worse she was gonna die! I couldn’t even comprehend that we were getting a new album from her in light of all this but I was excited. Britney’s life seemed to be hanging in the balance throughout all of 2007.