BRITNEY SPEARS - “Autumn Goodbye”
BRITNEY SPEARS - “Autumn Goodbye”
Twinned quaintness: a B-Side, and a Britney tune carried mostly by its sung melody. It’s A-Side was “…Baby One More Time”, which may not be the best of her records but is still the audio/video template for everything else - sexuality as a production gloss, a rampaging text (*mops sweaty pomo brow*) blithely unaware of its own unpleasant implications. The crucial difference between Madonna and Britney is that Madonna is famous for her decisive image-control and Britney’s rep is built on her (apparently) accidental PR messes - domestic violence subtexts; virginity claims; drunken weddings; suicide videos. Weirdly I think this might be why she endures - unusually for a modern pop star, she makes huge, glaring, honking mistakes.
Madonna also never made a habit of doing things like “Autumn Goodbye”, a farewell-my-summer-love burble which sets out the stall for Britney-as-innocent. It has a very nice tune which slides from an aching verse to a jaunty chorus and which is ample reason to ferret it out. Listening to it now though the production - or lack of it - is what strikes me. “Autumn Goodbye”, with its little blurts of canned trumpets and aerobicise backbeat, sounds cheaper than almost anything else under the Spears imprint. In fact it sounds European - Pete Waterman could have done it, or more likely one of his staff could have done it for a half-hearted Steps solo album. I have plenty of tolerance for this sound - doesn’t excite me, doesn’t offend me - but it’s certainly Not Britney. As such “Autumn Goodbye” is a snapshot of Britney before she was Britney - before Team Britney had worked out what to do with her.
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angelica on June 1st, 2007
esta muy buena la cancion, (bueno la letra, porq el ritmo no lo tengo por desgracia) pero creo q esta muy padre y espero tenerla algun dia y q no sea muy tared. cuidense bye
te amo britney eres lo maximo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are the best in everything
angelica on June 1st, 2007
esta muy buena la cancion, (bueno la letra, porq el ritmo no lo tengo por desgracia) pero creo q esta muy padre y espero tenerla algun dia y q no sea muy tared. cuidense bye
te amo britney eres lo maximo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are the best in everything
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