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|  New Unreleased Britney Song | |
I was reading Entertainment Weekly, and this article popped up. It's mostly about "before the goodbye", but they mention another unreleased track.
matt
'Goodbye,' Indeed
The inside story of Britney Spears' missing hit. An import-only track shows an alternate direction for the pop princess. Find out why she had it bumped from her U.S. album by Brian Hiatt
NOT A LIAR Spears gives BT the thumbs up on the tracks he worked on, despite rumors otherwise
Britney Spears' ''Before the Goodbye'' is a full-fledged dance-pop anthem, a potential hit driven by pounding Eurodisco beats and a choir's worth of backing vocals, courtesy of producer BT. But odds are that you haven't heard the track, since Britney and her handlers booted it off her latest album.
''She and I have talked about this in great detail,'' says BT (born Brian Transeau), who leaped from the dance ghetto to ''TRL'' after lending an electronic sheen to 'N Sync's hit ''Pop.'' ''[My songs were] too different from what the rest of the record was like. The record ended up with very sort of Neptunes-y, R&B-type slant on it. And the stuff that we did was dance music. The stuff didn't make sense for the American version of the record -- they put it on everything else.''
''Before the Goodbye,'' has, in fact, surfaced as a bonus track on various import versions of ''Britney,'' though another BT production, ''When I Say So,'' has yet to see release anywhere, according to his management. But ''Before'' -- which has also turned up online as an illicit MP3 -- is, in its own way, at least as musically daring as anything on the stateside version of ''Britney.''
The song's verses follow the guitar-plus-two-step-beat template of Craig David's hits, or 'N Sync's ''Gone,'' with Britney delivering rapid-fire lyrics in a whispery moan: ''I'm lying here in your arms and you hold me tight/tryin' not to watch the clock tick-tickin' as the time goes by.'' On the chorus (''You're leaving/ I'm waiting/ Forgive me/ I'm always missing you/ before the goodbye,'') the song kicks into a Hi-NRG beat that falls somewhere between ''Ray of Light''-era Madonna and any track on your local pop station's Saturday night remix show.
BT, who's proud of the song, says he was stunned when he heard that Britney had slammed his work as ''not good enough'' for her album in a telephone press conference last year. ''The tracks that he ended up doing for me didn't fit me and the kind of music that I was going for,'' Spears said, according to various reports. Says BT: ''I don't know what the hell that was all about. I saw that [comment], but I find it totally hard to believe that she said that. Because we're totally cool -- I see her and stuff and we hang out.'' BT says Spears told him that she was misquoted. ''That's come up and she's like, I didn't say that, that's total bulls---.''
In any case, the apparent diss from the world's biggest pop star hasn't slowed down BT's career; he's in talks to produce another major artist, whose name he can't yet reveal, and he collaborated with the Roots for a track on the ''Blade 2'' soundtrack. That song will also appear on an upcoming BT solo album that's set to feature vocals from Filter's Richard Patrick, among others. But if the guest stars don't work out, BT can always say they just weren't good enough.
LONE STRANGER? BT is in the process of working on a solo album
The song's verses follow the guitar-plus-two-step-beat template of Craig David's hits, or 'N Sync's ''Gone,'' with Britney delivering rapid-fire lyrics in a whispery moan: ''I'm lying here in your arms and you hold me tight/tryin' not to watch the clock tick-tickin' as the time goes by.'' On the chorus (''You're leaving/ I'm waiting/ Forgive me/ I'm always missing you/ before the goodbye,'') the song kicks into a Hi-NRG beat that falls somewhere between ''Ray of Light''-era Madonna and any track on your local pop station's Saturday night remix show.
BT, who's proud of the song, says he was stunned when he heard that Britney had slammed his work as ''not good enough'' for her album in a telephone press conference last year. ''The tracks that he ended up doing for me didn't fit me and the kind of music that I was going for,'' Spears said, according to various reports. Says BT: ''I don't know what the hell that was all about. I saw that [comment], but I find it totally hard to believe that she said that. Because we're totally cool -- I see her and stuff and we hang out.'' BT says Spears told him that she was misquoted. ''That's come up and she's like, I didn't say that, that's total bulls---.''
In any case, the apparent diss from the world's biggest pop star hasn't slowed down BT's career; he's in talks to produce another major artist, whose name he can't yet reveal, and he collaborated with the Roots for a track on the ''Blade 2'' soundtrack. That song will also appear on an upcoming BT solo album that's set to feature vocals from Filter's Richard Patrick, among others. But if the guest stars don't work out, BT can always say they just weren't good enough.
(Posted:04/04/02) |
