05 Nov
Britney Spears has been proven to be uninterested in her kids and promoting her new album. It actually seems like she cares more to be put in the middle of some sort of controversy. And it seems to work for her.
Britney is not doing anything to promote her new album but it doesn’t look like she has to anyway. Because based on the first day sales of her latest album ‘Blackout’, the pop wreck is expected to debut at #1 on the US album charts.
Right now, it’s being projected that the album would sell around 350,000 copies. It’s nowhere near Carrie Underwood’s first week sales of 527,000 but it’s respectable none the less. It’s still more than what I can say for her.
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05 Nov
After splitting with A&M in 2005, piano-pop ingenue Vanessa Carlton signed with The Inc. (formerly Murder Inc.), the label best known for hip-hop/R&B acts Ja Rule and Ashanti. Despite the new digs, her third album, Heroes & Thieves, doesn’t signal an urban revamp — no duets with rasping rappers, no recycled soul samples. She instead plays it safe and sticks to the ornate, sentimental formula of her Grammy-nominated debut, Be Not Nobody, and critically heralded but sales-impaired follow-up, Harmonium.
With a youthful voice and a predilection for flowery lyrics, the 27-year-old still comes off as an angst-afflicted teenager adapting her diary into song — even though she’s now rhapsodizing about adult stuff like rent-controlled apartments (”Nolita Fairytale”) and temp work (”Hands on Me”). This can be surprisingly touching and personal, as on the exuberant title track, or simply pretentious, as on ”Come Undone,” where she muses, ”I’m a sycophantic courtier with an elegant repost.”
However precious her poetry can be, Carlton always pins it to melodies that morph and expand evocatively. Heroes climaxes grandly in the soaring ballad ”Home,” followed by the choral volcano that is ”More Than This.” As sappy as this combination is, the orchestral one-two punch is also inescapably moving. And it’s the kind of thing Carlton does best — no matter what label she’s on.