omg yes! Especially "Where Are You Now", that one is amazing especially with that high note at the end! Man I wish she released it as a single cause then it would've proved to the world she can sing!
Say whatever you want. Britney Spears is a living legend. She knocked the door down for females in the late 90's and was the most successful female artist for seven years. She is an icon. Can she sing like Mariah Carey or other divas with huge voices, no. But she has a great voice with control and voice is recognizableworld wide. SShe has a distinction. If a song comes on, you know it's Britney Spears and that voice that everyone wants to pick apart is legendary. Similar to Madonna, she isn't known for her big vocals, but the truth is, she has a big, sultry voice that she doesn't use. That's fine, because her genre is a sexy, pop, falsetto type style. Say what you want, good or bad. But one, you're talking about her. Two, she will go down in history as one of the most successful female artists and entertainers. There's absolutely no denying that Britney was a game changer and influenced so many female artists we see today (as they will very openly speak about, including Lady Gaga). If you've been to a Britney show, they're all sold out and you simply cannot hear when you leave for a solid three hour. Britney night in every city I've seen her has fans yelling at bartenders because the applause were the loudest I've ever experienced at a concert. You can pick her apart, but there is no denying that she is....Britney Spears. She is known all around the world. She has longevity. What other female artists from her era has a career? I know of one. PProducer's, artists, anyone she comes in contact with have nothing but positive things to say about her. She remains the girl next door. She's genuine, She's sweet, funny, friendly and to be honest, her pop music a lot of times puts others to shame. She isn't a Diva, she's a real persona, with real problems that makes great music, puts on great shows. So whether or not you appreciate her talent, you have no choice butnto acknowle her impact on the music industry and what she has accomplished. She wasn't signed because she has a pretty face, she was signed because she can sing and we've yet to really see what she fan do (with the exception of younger years and her first two albums, vocally, anyway). Also, yoy have a generation thay grew up with her. A generation that is very, very protective of her because she was out first music wueen. Our first female music megastar She will have a very long career and I'm not comparing in anyway, but she will go down with the likes of Cher, Madonna and ironic female artists. Because her fans love her and her fans consit of normal people other artists, the media and so forth. So stop bashing and let this girl who happens to be a legend live. Because she's so different from any other celebrity. She's a real Woman and an Icon. ,
JT Wilkes That was an long amazingly wonderfull and true message you wrote there! I smiled all the way through! I really hope Britney could have seen your message, shw would have been so happy for it!
She doesn't have a deep voice; she's not a Contralto LMAO. She's a very untrained lyric Mezzosoprano naturally (for what I can tell). She doesn't know how to belt properly, let alone mix. Her voice is disconnected in all registers as well. The reason why many people think she has deep voice is because she used to do the Christina Aguilera lowering larynx technique earlier in her career, when her voice was less processed. Even as a child she would lower her larynx but that's not her natural fach or tessitura. Rhianna Barr: You can't be an "alto". You sing the part of an "alto" in choral music, which is the lowers part of females. Vocal fach for females goes like this: Contralto, Mezzosoprano and Soprano. Brit's a Mezzo.
You're right about her being a mezzo, but you're wrong about almost everything else. Britney fits as an alto, so it's not wrong to say she's an alto and a low mezzo. But I understand why you corrected her in that context. She started training her voice at 3. She was very well trained and had good technique until she started using the baby voice and so singing in wrong ways to achieve it. Listen to her earlier songs. Her belts and mixing were very good, strong, powerful, resonant. She used to do the larynx thing for style, like the baby, light voice later. But she has also sung with neutral larynx and she does have a deep voice. Her natural talking voice is deep too (when she doesn't alter her tone with the girly sound + vocal fry) and she has an amazing and pretty androgynous lower register. If you watch her older performances in which her mic was on while dancing, her deep voice almost always slipped out. And in some the dancing was so heavy that she just sang them in her natural deep voice along with the backing track. Her natural voice is deep and dark. Not like a contralto voice, but definitely deep.
From the beginning of this video all the way to 1:45 that was Britney's real voice...you see her voice was deep because she is a contralto which is a deeper voiced singer...all the rest of the videos after 1:45 are her post jive voice ..the voice they trained her to sing in which is high pitched like a soubrette..just to piggyback off of some peoples comments her singing voice is deep and always has been but she has been taught to sing in her higher singing register max martin even said that's what they achieved with her voice but puberty did not and I repeat did not alter her voice from deep and mature sounding to frail and childish that's backwards if you really think about it . Those 3 songs at the begging are "love can build a bridge", "open arms" and "silent night 1996" also some more recent songs done in her natural voice are "let go" and "baby boy".
Actually Larry (Britney's manager) recorded Britney singing I have nothing, and they sent the tape to Jive who thought she was a great singer! She was only 14 (aka they couldn't have given her the record deal for her appeal since she was only that young) and they had never seen her dance by that time. So basically Britney and Xtina got their record deals the exact same way, they both sent their labels tapes where they sing Whitney songs. The only difference is Britney is an amazing dancer too
***** She had more then an "alright" voice when she was singing at that beauty pageant. There was a steady decline after that because of how pop producers wanted her to sound. But she was still alright, and even in her pop songs and sex songs had so much personality and charisma in her voice. It's just these last few years where she truly lost all vocal ability completely.
Boom Chicka I don't think she's lost her vocal ability at all. The many "You Oughta Know" performances during the second American leg of "The Circus Starring Britney Spears", which were 100% live, prove it very well. The thing is nowadays she prefers singing in a very low mic on top of her loud CD vocals because she wants the whole performance to be perfect, vocally too, and she can't guarantee that while doing all that dancing. Let's remember that she's the only music artist out there who dances through 80-90% of the whole show, that is for at least 70-80 minutes. And she doesn't do the easy routines or the strutting on stage that pretty much all her colleagues do. She does complicated routines. I've been to all the shows of the main pop/R&B artists in recent years (you name one, I've seen him or her) and I've never seen what I see on a stage Britney's on. Then again, we could discuss if there really has to be so much dancing in a concert, but that's another matter entirely.
***** Her latest album didn't enjoy much success because sales don't just depend on the fanbase. Actually, most of them depend on non-fans who decide to buy the album anyway. And since she did almost no promotion (a couple of videos and a couple of interviews can't almost be called promotion), nobody apart from her fans cared to give a listen to the album. Many don't even know she released an album in December. Fancy that.
Her focus isn't inside of the music, which she divorced herself from a while ago. She still loves to perform and I admire her love for the stage. I've heard she wanted to perform on broadway... but I guess having your own residency in Vegas is just as good. Great voice, unique sound... but it seems distracted. She's probably misses her home, her friends, her past. She's comfortable and relaxed in the studio but so tense live. Put yourself in her shoes and you allow yourself to empathize.
She said, when she was promoting "Britney" that her register had got lower or deeper but her higher register hadn't developed. I think that's why you hear her sing lower notes around that time. She has got a very beautiful voice. she may not be Mariah Carey or Christina Aguilera but shes got her own thing going on vocally.
She gets voice lessons for like every album, and even for Vegas (don't know what for lol, but whatever). And she does have songs that show some of her potential, but yeah, it's a shame that such talented people can't shine, either because of their label or because they don't work as hard as they could in their vocals. Britney is the one person I won't judge though. She's been through some big shit, part of which I find relatable, and I'm just glad that she seems to be doing so well now. I think that will also make her want to improve. I'm hoping for some improvement (and no MM bs, in case it's true) in B9, but I'll always support her anyway.
Due to popularity her voice was forced into an uncomfortable range from the beginning. She should have forced her natural key and voice to produce the tracks with. They push her voice too hard.
She's Incomparable, A living Legend. like Miley Cyrus said " Britney doesn't know how awesome she really is" Best part is shes soo sweet. 15 years on top f her career yet soo humble. You can tell from her interviews she's a good person.
The problem is that after she finished In the Zone, she went years without any vocal exercises or training, and instead of getting vocal lessons for Blackout she just used autotune and has relied on autotune since and her voice just keeps deteriorating since she doesn't even try to exercise it anymore. I think that after a solid year of professional vocal training she could regain her voice and strengthen it.
Like Ygor said, there is the recording session of Break The Ice. And also the last clip is from the Circus tour, so... Plus she does have relatively recent songs that showcase some of her potential. Btw autotune is a pitch correction tool that can also be used to distort the voice. Just because there is no distortion, it doesn't mean it's not corrected. And just because it has distortion or layers or whatever other effect it doesn't mean the singing was worse. And of course just because someone is corrected it doesn't mean they can't sing. Autotune saves a lot of time and makes it all sound perfect, pretty much everyone in pop music uses it. They put autotune in the instruments too, but no one goes around saying the musicians can't play for shit because it's all autotuned lol. You can also use autotune in live performances nowadays and it corrects your pitch automatically. People just give her shit because she lip syncs. Not even Selena gets so much crap even though she's obviously not a good singer. Because she at least sings live. People have this idea in their heads that Britney is some talentless twat that sings thanks to a computer and the team around her fixing her. Lots of people even think her "baby voice" is autotune. People are just ignorant and assume that, if you are edited and refuse to sing live, it's because there is something to hide. When in reality, if you have a trained ear, you can tell when someone has pipes and even where the edition is and to what extent. That plus the fact that, like I said, you can autotune live performances too now. Most people just don't know what they're talking about.
+crojalwol I agree completely. I never understood why people always make the assumption that pop stars like Britney Spears have no vocal talent just because they lip-sync or their songs utilize typical production techniques. Why would a record label sign someone who can't sing? By that logic, record labels would sign literally every attractive face that walked in their office. What I'm trying to say is that while Britney may not have the strongest vocal range and she has more notoriety as an entertainer, I sincerely believe that she has some vocal talent as a singer. Otherwise, she wouldn't have made it on The Mickey Mouse Club as a child, she wouldn't have gotten a record deal, and she wouldn't be marketable. It's for the benefit of record labels that the people they sign can actually sing. And I believe that they saw potential in Britney Spears' singing. Of course, pop production often has a way of masking the organic nature of a performer's voice, which is where this misconception stems from. All the technology in the world can't mask a singer's inability to sing. So she has to have vocal talent to perform her songs. I'm not even a big Britney fan, but I don't like it when people claim that she has no talent as a singer, because it makes no sense to me when I've heard otherwise. And again, why would a record label sign a pretty face who can't sing when they can easily find a pretty face who can?
Her first 4 albums have a great vocals..the other 4 so much auto tune,robotic voice..i hope her 9th album would be a comeback of a good vocals maybe just like BRITNEY & IN THE ZONE combination.
+Joshua Blackwood The 8 didn't have much of Britney either lol not hating, I'm her fan, just saying. She's been working with a vocal coach, so maybe the comeback is possible.
Sorry, I never check my notifications XD Perfume is still nasal voice, although not so exaggerated. But yeah, that's definitely Britney and it's pretty good vocally. Some people say Work Bitch wasn't Britney/not totally Britney, but I don't really know.
A great singer it is not the one with a bigger voice or range. A great singer moves you and her milions of fans around the world It's a prove of that. Her songs its part of my life and milions of people. Love you Britney!
I completely agree with you. Most people are so superficial they're impressed only when a singer shouts and does acrobatics whenever she opens her mouth. But singing is not about trying to hit the highest possible note a human being can as loud as you can. It's about using your voice in a way that renders the emotions contained in the lyrics. When you constantly belt out, either the song just expresses one concept or you can't render it properly. Britney's singing is effective and expressive.
Listen to Everyday. it's a song Britney wrote for Femme Fatale or Circus. The vocals are flawless. Also look up He About to Lose Me main vocal mix. She still has a STRONG voice
She does have a sweet voice and indeed seemed much more powerful when she was younger, but the fact that you can only literally find a handful of performances says something. I feel like it was her own decision to not sing live anymore because of insecurities, she always knew she never had the strongest voice, she's a performer, she shows dancing, choreography, intensity...
Nobody says that she can't sing... the problem is that she never sang anything 100% live since 2004 excapt (maybe) you oughta know at the Circus Tour and (maybe)a little bit during femme fatale tour... In over 100 piece of me shows she even lipped the sit down parts. She even doesn't use a live sounding vocal track - she uses the studio vocals which is really bizarre when it comes to lucky with 15 years old vocals. But the fans don't seem to care so what the hell.
+Imanuel Cortez Fans pay for the real thing...not something she used 15 years ago. It's a rip off but if the fans don't care, they deserve to be laughed at...and believe me, Britney does when she closes her front door.
why don't she perform a emotional song on a music award or something before getting into faster songs(and lip sync like she always do) so people will be shock
@@ashdog236 He means why doesn't she do it regularly. If she did the ballads live first and then lip-synched the rest of her songs, maybe people would be less critical of her
I love Britney Spears and I'm so glad femme fatale was the last album she was working with jive records I hope she shows her true voice for her 8th album :)
I always thought Britney had a decent voice but she never seemed to work on her vocals ( like working with a vocal coach and/or doing vocal warm-ups) she just relied on auto tune and the fact that she was a phenomenal performer and her and her team just opted to lip-synch instead. And then she started smoking and those things combined just wrecked her voice completely!!
Zac Spears yea, one side of the stage to the other. now if you're talking about what she used to be like 15 to 14 years ago, that's a whole different story. back then it was acceptable for her to lip sync because she danced her ass off. now she's old and can't dance nor sing.
Zac Spears LOL!!! It's an eye sore. Shitney's been done since she walked out drunk on stage drunk during Give Me More and the dancers couldn't even lift her. Ha!
Completely true. I'll add that we're talking about a professional vocalist who's been studying singing and music in theory and in practice since she was 3, even attending such prestigious schools at the Professional Performing Arts School. She knows and masters the tecnhiques and knows how to convey the emotions in the lyrics. And before landing a record deal she won hundreds of singing competitions all over the States. The greatest producers and songwriters praise her for her renditions.
at 5:25 she goes back singing like she use to when she was 10 years old. :D shows how she has a style of singing, and that she knows that. Everyone thinks her voice is always high pitched.. but she loves to sing lower than the voice you hear on the album. Amazing vocal range. This is why Britney has a record deal.
She was alright. but you so can tell the decline in vocal ability from baby one more time, to oops, to britney, to in the zone; then finally the over computerized black out that started the whole major auto tuning and computerization era.
She used auto tune well before Blackout. Born To Make You Happy and Dont Let Me Be The Last To Know are examples. And no, it's not used because she cant sing.
Everybody talking about her singing which is fine. But it’s more than that it’s her stage presence it’s her persona it’s her confidence. When Britney performed in her prime especially VMAs u froze u were captivated. Other better singers can’t come close to that.
she never was on drugs she had personal struggles and emotionally and mentally couldn't handle it, never believe the media they like to trash her and a lot of other celebrities just like michael jackson. But she is such a strong woman and she is so happy now :)
that's actually her natural voice. she intentionally thins her voice out to give it that lighter sound. her actual voice is this deep. perfume is a good showcase of her more natural voice.
At the beginning of the video the people should realize that the pitch she is forced to sing in is too high! Of course she can't hold notes long enough, in her headvoice is not enough air at a live convert to hold the note -.-! Damn it there should be one new song for her with her deep voice :(!
Nah. She still has the deep voice as evident by her live vocals from a couple years ago. She just has to train that and she'll be fine. But then again, the baby vocals are what she's known for.
lol she was never on drugs she had personal struggless and she is a strong woman and overcame them and now she is better than ever, and she still is hot and having big hits since her breakdown: womanizer,circus,3,hold it against me,till the world ends and i wanna go. She is a legend
This makes me so sad. I was watching her on GMA and its like shes not the same person anymore. I've been a Britney fan since I was 5 and I will continue to love her and support her. I just wish she didn't seem "out of it" anymore.
At least she's making a huge amount of money whether she sings live or not. She may not be the best singer out there but she can definitely sing. She made a mark on the music industry so to everyone who says she has no talent, go see her star in the hollywood walk of fame. State your opinion nicely. Some of you are over their 20s yet you still pick a fight over the web. Come on, you could do better than that. You wouldn't want other people talk bad about you or anyone you love right? Just state your opinion nicely.
I'm not so sure you're right. It's obvious that she's subject to enormous pressures because of the massive money interests that people around her (her team, her label, the industry) have in whatever she does, but I still think she has important input in what she releases. Producers constantly say that they don't have to tell her how to render a line because she nails it by herself in her own way. And I think she has an active role in picking the songs even when she doesn't write them herself.
I wish you would've added when she used to sing live on The Mickey Mouse Club at only 11 years old because she was so amazing on there as well. Singing, Acting & Dancing.
It's not that she can't sing. To this day she has a great voice. She just doesn't try anymore. She says that dancing is her passion. She dances, but it seems she doesn't want to try. I believe she can hit some of those notes without autotune if she wanted.
Her singing from :1 -1:47min: I'm FUCKING MINDBLOWN..WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK! Could you imagine her now vocally , if she wasn't forced to sing in an unatrual tone to suit the "times" which she came out!? ...I have a new found respect for her...this shit needs to go VIRAL DAMN!
Despiste her unique voice Britney has that lil something that not everybody's Has, thats why now days even tho shes not doing that much, STILL RELEVANT ❤️
She is sooo talented. Her true voice, is the deep one. And Jive makes her sing with the studio voice, but you know, I am a singer and singing with a voice diferent to yours is sooooo dificult, so she is very talented. But she should sing with her real voice, because it's really good and i don't think thats what makes her successfull. I think she owes succees to her way to sing and move, and the pressence she has onstage. I still have some hope that she'll make a CD with her real voice lol
I don't really care that she used to sing live when she was 16. The thing that bothers me is she lip-synchs at every show she does past 2000. No singer should do that, I wouldn't pay for a concert like that. If she can indeed she should at least sing-along to her recordings while she performs them live and amplificated.
Her ballads are super underrated. "bottom of my broken heart" "not a girl" "everytime" "don't let me be the last to know" "unusual you" "inside out"
dalmationham Don't forget the unreleased "Let Go" and "Baby Boy"
dalmationham
'Inside Out'??? That was not a ballad xD
And let's not forget the best ones of all- 'Luv the Hurt Away' and 'I'll Never Stop Loving You'.
Baby Boy is amazing
Shadow too
omg yes! Especially "Where Are You Now", that one is amazing especially with that high note at the end! Man I wish she released it as a single cause then it would've proved to the world she can sing!
dang. shes actually SO amazing
she isssss
Say whatever you want. Britney Spears is a living legend. She knocked the door down for females in the late 90's and was the most successful female artist for seven years. She is an icon. Can she sing like Mariah Carey or other divas with huge voices, no. But she has a great voice with control and voice is recognizableworld wide. SShe has a distinction. If a song comes on, you know it's Britney Spears and that voice that everyone wants to pick apart is legendary. Similar to Madonna, she isn't known for her big vocals, but the truth is, she has a big, sultry voice that she doesn't use. That's fine, because her genre is a sexy, pop, falsetto type style. Say what you want, good or bad. But one, you're talking about her. Two, she will go down in history as one of the most successful female artists and entertainers. There's absolutely no denying that Britney was a game changer and influenced so many female artists we see today (as they will very openly speak about, including Lady Gaga). If you've been to a Britney show, they're all sold out and you simply cannot hear when you leave for a solid three hour. Britney night in every city I've seen her has fans yelling at bartenders because the applause were the loudest I've ever experienced at a concert. You can pick her apart, but there is no denying that she is....Britney Spears. She is known all around the world. She has longevity. What other female artists from her era has a career? I know of one. PProducer's, artists, anyone she comes in contact with have nothing but positive things to say about her. She remains the girl next door. She's genuine, She's sweet, funny, friendly and to be honest, her pop music a lot of times puts others to shame. She isn't a Diva, she's a real persona, with real problems that makes great music, puts on great shows. So whether or not you appreciate her talent, you have no choice butnto acknowle her impact on the music industry and what she has accomplished. She wasn't signed because she has a pretty face, she was signed because she can sing and we've yet to really see what she fan do (with the exception of younger years and her first two albums, vocally, anyway). Also, yoy have a generation thay grew up with her. A generation that is very, very protective of her because she was out first music wueen. Our first female music megastar She will have a very long career and I'm not comparing in anyway, but she will go down with the likes of Cher, Madonna and ironic female artists. Because her fans love her and her fans consit of normal people other artists, the media and so forth. So stop bashing and let this girl who happens to be a legend live. Because she's so different from any other celebrity. She's a real Woman and an Icon. ,
lolololololololol
great thanks
JT Wilkes That was an long amazingly wonderfull and true message you wrote there! I smiled all the way through! I really hope Britney could have seen your message, shw would have been so happy for it!
Beautifully written, I agree 100%
JT Wilkes so touched to finally see someone who supports Britney to this extent
leave her alone, she can sing!!
This video isn't saying she is bad at singing they are sticking up for her and promoting what an amazing artist she is.
Joanne Lowes *could
Yes she can but rhe babyvoice is stupid
@@ree3197 *can
@The Jar How is the voice that destroyed her real voice sweet?? 🤔
I've always think since she has a deep voice, her record label has been making her sing with a more childish voice for her public and image.
Yep
She's actually an alto but they wanted her to sing soprano
She doesn't have a deep voice; she's not a Contralto LMAO. She's a very untrained lyric Mezzosoprano naturally (for what I can tell). She doesn't know how to belt properly, let alone mix. Her voice is disconnected in all registers as well. The reason why many people think she has deep voice is because she used to do the Christina Aguilera lowering larynx technique earlier in her career, when her voice was less processed. Even as a child she would lower her larynx but that's not her natural fach or tessitura.
Rhianna Barr: You can't be an "alto". You sing the part of an "alto" in choral music, which is the lowers part of females. Vocal fach for females goes like this: Contralto, Mezzosoprano and Soprano. Brit's a Mezzo.
You're right about her being a mezzo, but you're wrong about almost everything else. Britney fits as an alto, so it's not wrong to say she's an alto and a low mezzo. But I understand why you corrected her in that context. She started training her voice at 3. She was very well trained and had good technique until she started using the baby voice and so singing in wrong ways to achieve it. Listen to her earlier songs. Her belts and mixing were very good, strong, powerful, resonant. She used to do the larynx thing for style, like the baby, light voice later.
But she has also sung with neutral larynx and she does have a deep voice. Her natural talking voice is deep too (when she doesn't alter her tone with the girly sound + vocal fry) and she has an amazing and pretty androgynous lower register. If you watch her older performances in which her mic was on while dancing, her deep voice almost always slipped out. And in some the dancing was so heavy that she just sang them in her natural deep voice along with the backing track. Her natural voice is deep and dark. Not like a contralto voice, but definitely deep.
crojalwol not contralto (that's Toni Braxton territory) alto = Adele, Pink, Kary Perry... Britney has an alto (C3-F5) range
From the beginning of this video all the way to 1:45 that was Britney's real voice...you see her voice was deep because she is a contralto which is a deeper voiced singer...all the rest of the videos after 1:45 are her post jive voice ..the voice they trained her to sing in which is high pitched like a soubrette..just to piggyback off of some peoples comments her singing voice is deep and always has been but she has been taught to sing in her higher singing register max martin even said that's what they achieved with her voice but puberty did not and I repeat did not alter her voice from deep and mature sounding to frail and childish that's backwards if you really think about it .
Those 3 songs at the begging are "love can build a bridge", "open arms" and "silent night 1996" also some more recent songs done in her natural voice are "let go" and "baby boy".
Everytime on SNL is one of her most touching live performances. Raw and beautiful!
But it never been uploaded full in UA-cam
Everyone thinks Britney's a joke...even celebrities if only they knew the talent she actually has...😭
They are jealous
Celebs are always praising her , but yes she’s artistically very underrated
My god what? They just can imagine have her it factor
It doesn't matter. I'm still going to buy her CDs.
😂😂😂
Rebecca Holden me too
Lmao when’s the last time you bought a cd
Period.
Me too
She could even pass as a beauty pageant contestant, she’s gorgeous 🥰🥰🥰
yeah!
Actually Larry (Britney's manager) recorded Britney singing I have nothing, and they sent the tape to Jive who thought she was a great singer! She was only 14 (aka they couldn't have given her the record deal for her appeal since she was only that young) and they had never seen her dance by that time. So basically Britney and Xtina got their record deals the exact same way, they both sent their labels tapes where they sing Whitney songs. The only difference is Britney is an amazing dancer too
i dont even think she thought she will become a pop legend and princess of pop
I remember hearing someone at TAFE saying of Britney, "I don't know how you can call her a singer." That person needs to watch this video.
Mark Taylor this is similar to what Cathy griffin said to her, she’s pointing out the word “singer” in a sarcastic way lol that nanny 🙄
Plus not to mention she was unbelievably beautiful....like a 40 on a 10 scale gorgeous from head to toe with a smile brighter than everyones future!!!
Lol at people saying she can't sing. You don't get a record deal because you can perform.
***** She had more then an "alright" voice when she was singing at that beauty pageant. There was a steady decline after that because of how pop producers wanted her to sound. But she was still alright, and even in her pop songs and sex songs had so much personality and charisma in her voice. It's just these last few years where she truly lost all vocal ability completely.
Boom Chicka I don't think she's lost her vocal ability at all. The many "You Oughta Know" performances during the second American leg of "The Circus Starring Britney Spears", which were 100% live, prove it very well. The thing is nowadays she prefers singing in a very low mic on top of her loud CD vocals because she wants the whole performance to be perfect, vocally too, and she can't guarantee that while doing all that dancing. Let's remember that she's the only music artist out there who dances through 80-90% of the whole show, that is for at least 70-80 minutes. And she doesn't do the easy routines or the strutting on stage that pretty much all her colleagues do. She does complicated routines. I've been to all the shows of the main pop/R&B artists in recent years (you name one, I've seen him or her) and I've never seen what I see on a stage Britney's on. Then again, we could discuss if there really has to be so much dancing in a concert, but that's another matter entirely.
***** Her latest album didn't enjoy much success because sales don't just depend on the fanbase. Actually, most of them depend on non-fans who decide to buy the album anyway. And since she did almost no promotion (a couple of videos and a couple of interviews can't almost be called promotion), nobody apart from her fans cared to give a listen to the album. Many don't even know she released an album in December. Fancy that.
True that people don't no nothing
lol, yes you do!
She's a fighter. She has pulled herself through the mess that she got herself into and that's all that matters! She will always be my idol.
She was a legend in my time and will always be a legend to me.
Her focus isn't inside of the music, which she divorced herself from a while ago. She still loves to perform and I admire her love for the stage. I've heard she wanted to perform on broadway... but I guess having your own residency in Vegas is just as good. Great voice, unique sound... but it seems distracted. She's probably misses her home, her friends, her past. She's comfortable and relaxed in the studio but so tense live. Put yourself in her shoes and you allow yourself to empathize.
Jason Sobotka well said. I agree.
She said, when she was promoting "Britney" that her register had got lower or deeper but her higher register hadn't developed. I think that's why you hear her sing lower notes around that time. She has got a very beautiful voice. she may not be Mariah Carey or Christina Aguilera but shes got her own thing going on vocally.
She is a real artist.
if she got voice lessons for a year or two and made a album with her really singing I'd die. it would be amazing
She got voice lessons for Britney Jean 💀
+Jose S hahaha oh dear
She gets voice lessons for like every album, and even for Vegas (don't know what for lol, but whatever). And she does have songs that show some of her potential, but yeah, it's a shame that such talented people can't shine, either because of their label or because they don't work as hard as they could in their vocals. Britney is the one person I won't judge though. She's been through some big shit, part of which I find relatable, and I'm just glad that she seems to be doing so well now. I think that will also make her want to improve. I'm hoping for some improvement (and no MM bs, in case it's true) in B9, but I'll always support her anyway.
To be honest, I'd prefer her to drop the voice she's been forced into all of these years and to sing in her natural voice, which is broadway/country.
Its called autotune.
If Sailor Moon could sing, she's sing like Britney.
THATS MY BRITNEY!!!!
Due to popularity her voice was forced into an uncomfortable range from the beginning. She should have forced her natural key and voice to produce the tracks with. They push her voice too hard.
She's Incomparable, A living Legend.
like Miley Cyrus said " Britney doesn't know how awesome she really is" Best part is shes soo sweet. 15 years on top f her career yet soo humble. You can tell from her interviews she's a good person.
The problem is that after she finished In the Zone, she went years without any vocal exercises or training, and instead of getting vocal lessons for Blackout she just used autotune and has relied on autotune since and her voice just keeps deteriorating since she doesn't even try to exercise it anymore. I think that after a solid year of professional vocal training she could regain her voice and strengthen it.
Did you even listened to Break The Ice recording sessions? great voice and no autotune (obviously).
She used auto tune on Born To make you happy and Dont let me be the last to know. Stop thinking she never used it before in the zone.
The term "use it or lose it" applies perfectly for Britney Spears. Your voice is a muscle that must be exercised as well.
Like Ygor said, there is the recording session of Break The Ice. And also the last clip is from the Circus tour, so... Plus she does have relatively recent songs that showcase some of her potential. Btw autotune is a pitch correction tool that can also be used to distort the voice. Just because there is no distortion, it doesn't mean it's not corrected. And just because it has distortion or layers or whatever other effect it doesn't mean the singing was worse. And of course just because someone is corrected it doesn't mean they can't sing.
Autotune saves a lot of time and makes it all sound perfect, pretty much everyone in pop music uses it. They put autotune in the instruments too, but no one goes around saying the musicians can't play for shit because it's all autotuned lol. You can also use autotune in live performances nowadays and it corrects your pitch automatically. People just give her shit because she lip syncs. Not even Selena gets so much crap even though she's obviously not a good singer. Because she at least sings live.
People have this idea in their heads that Britney is some talentless twat that sings thanks to a computer and the team around her fixing her. Lots of people even think her "baby voice" is autotune. People are just ignorant and assume that, if you are edited and refuse to sing live, it's because there is something to hide. When in reality, if you have a trained ear, you can tell when someone has pipes and even where the edition is and to what extent. That plus the fact that, like I said, you can autotune live performances too now. Most people just don't know what they're talking about.
+crojalwol I agree completely. I never understood why people always make the assumption that pop stars like Britney Spears have no vocal talent just because they lip-sync or their songs utilize typical production techniques. Why would a record label sign someone who can't sing? By that logic, record labels would sign literally every attractive face that walked in their office. What I'm trying to say is that while Britney may not have the strongest vocal range and she has more notoriety as an entertainer, I sincerely believe that she has some vocal talent as a singer. Otherwise, she wouldn't have made it on The Mickey Mouse Club as a child, she wouldn't have gotten a record deal, and she wouldn't be
marketable.
It's for the benefit of record labels that the people they sign can actually sing. And I believe that they saw potential in Britney Spears' singing. Of course, pop production often has a way of masking the organic nature of a performer's voice, which is where this misconception stems from.
All the technology in the world can't mask a singer's inability to sing. So she has to have vocal talent to perform her songs.
I'm not even a big Britney fan, but I don't like it when people claim that she has no talent as a singer, because it makes no sense to me when I've heard otherwise. And again, why would a record label sign a pretty face who can't sing when they can easily find a pretty face who can?
She's an international icon.
Her first 4 albums have a great vocals..the other 4 so much auto tune,robotic voice..i hope her 9th album would be a comeback of a good vocals maybe just like BRITNEY & IN THE ZONE combination.
I totally agree
+Joshua Blackwood The 8 didn't have much of Britney either lol not hating, I'm her fan, just saying. She's been working with a vocal coach, so maybe the comeback is possible.
Sorry, I never check my notifications XD Perfume is still nasal voice, although not so exaggerated. But yeah, that's definitely Britney and it's pretty good vocally. Some people say Work Bitch wasn't Britney/not totally Britney, but I don't really know.
+Joshua Blackwood autotune is everywhere on britney jean 😐
but she hardly sung at all on britney jean
I want her to come out with a rock-dance album that's vocally driven like these clips!
I think she should switch over to rock!!and do duets with Poison and Kiss
The Great Max Martin! Best producer of the last 20 years Awesome!
Can you imagine in an alternate universe, we have a Cher Britney and now baby voice Britney? Music history is completely different!
jive forced her to suppress/damage her voice with that baby nasal voice. her real singing voice is beautiful and deep. so sad
When she sang "open arms" 😍🙏
"Everytime" is perfectttttt in this video ! Love Brit... don´t matter what anybody says. Love you, Brit!
What has Hollywood done to her :(
I really LOVE her vocals even with her NATURAL voice...that SILENT NIGHT 1996 so powerful hopefully will see that voice again
She is so sweet. Go Britney. Go go..
Britney Spears is very talented. Whether you believe it or not
She has a deep voice. She always has. It's her record label that destroyed her voice. Forcing her to sing in an unnatural tone.
A great singer it is not the one with a bigger voice or range. A great singer moves you and her milions of fans around the world It's a prove of that. Her songs its part of my life and milions of people.
Love you Britney!
I completely agree with you. Most people are so superficial they're impressed only when a singer shouts and does acrobatics whenever she opens her mouth. But singing is not about trying to hit the highest possible note a human being can as loud as you can. It's about using your voice in a way that renders the emotions contained in the lyrics. When you constantly belt out, either the song just expresses one concept or you can't render it properly. Britney's singing is effective and expressive.
So lucky people that had the chance to hear her sing like this. So powerful 😢❤
Listen to Everyday. it's a song Britney wrote for Femme Fatale or Circus. The vocals are flawless. Also look up He About to Lose Me main vocal mix. She still has a STRONG voice
LEGEND
xaaxce sure luck can give you a shot but itself alone cant stretch the spot light being on you for years
xaaxce She marketed herself so you're wrong. Britney made her own legacy.
xaaxce Erm yeah guys are whores lol.
She does have a sweet voice and indeed seemed much more powerful when she was younger, but the fact that you can only literally find a handful of performances says something.
I feel like it was her own decision to not sing live anymore because of insecurities, she always knew she never had the strongest voice, she's a performer, she shows dancing, choreography, intensity...
Nobody says that she can't sing... the problem is that she never sang anything 100% live since 2004 excapt (maybe) you oughta know at the Circus Tour and (maybe)a little bit during femme fatale tour... In over 100 piece of me shows she even lipped the sit down parts. She even doesn't use a live sounding vocal track - she uses the studio vocals which is really bizarre when it comes to lucky with 15 years old vocals. But the fans don't seem to care so what the hell.
+Imanuel Cortez Fans pay for the real thing...not something she used 15 years ago. It's a rip off but if the fans don't care, they deserve to be laughed at...and believe me, Britney does when she closes her front door.
+J kK We don't care tho.
Imanuel Cortez ikr? At least she can recorded some new vocals for the old songs...Her team and label record it's stupid
why don't she perform a emotional song on a music award or something before getting into faster songs(and lip sync like she always do) so people will be shock
- sylvia ikr!!
She has done that before, Grammys (From the bottom of my broken heart), VMA 2000, AMA - Not a girl (in this video).
@@ashdog236 He means why doesn't she do it regularly. If she did the ballads live first and then lip-synched the rest of her songs, maybe people would be less critical of her
She has an amazing voice. I think it's cool that she can sing in many different styles. It would be nice if she sang a few ballad songs again :)
I rather her real deep voice, she's a contralto not a mezzo-soprano.
When she sings in her nature range she has a powerful and touching voice.
When I went to see her femme fatale tour, she sang live some songs and she was incredible
I love Britney Spears and I'm so glad femme fatale was the last album she was working with jive records I hope she shows her true voice for her 8th album :)
I always thought Britney had a decent voice but she never seemed to work on her vocals ( like working with a vocal coach and/or doing vocal warm-ups) she just relied on auto tune and the fact that she was a phenomenal performer and her and her team just opted to lip-synch instead. And then she started smoking and those things combined just wrecked her voice completely!!
Nah being forced to sing in an unnatural voice ruined her
No one is wondering why brintey has a record deal ...shes an icon with more talent then most people do in the entertainment business ! 👑👸👼
I wish she'd taken greater care of her voice it's sad that it's not that good these days
U guys , britney is a dancer and a preformer and its hard to sing while shes dancing so she lip sync she have to (no hate)
Zac Spears LOL!!! Now she doesn't dance or sing. just walks from one side of the stage to the other. So what excuse are you going to use now??
Really bitch ? go watch some if her Stage shows .
Zac Spears yea, one side of the stage to the other. now if you're talking about what she used to be like 15 to 14 years ago, that's a whole different story. back then it was acceptable for her to lip sync because she danced her ass off. now she's old and can't dance nor sing.
No Dumbfuck go watch Piece of me Show She's Killing it with dance moves Go fuck yourself
Zac Spears LOL!!! It's an eye sore. Shitney's been done since she walked out drunk on stage drunk during Give Me More and the dancers couldn't even lift her. Ha!
She si performer , singer our friend and ofc POP PRINCESS !
Love her 4 ever!
Completely true. I'll add that we're talking about a professional vocalist who's been studying singing and music in theory and in practice since she was 3, even attending such prestigious schools at the Professional Performing Arts School. She knows and masters the tecnhiques and knows how to convey the emotions in the lyrics. And before landing a record deal she won hundreds of singing competitions all over the States. The greatest producers and songwriters praise her for her renditions.
at 5:25 she goes back singing like she use to when she was 10 years old. :D
shows how she has a style of singing, and that she knows that.
Everyone thinks her voice is always high pitched.. but she loves to sing lower than the voice you hear on the album. Amazing vocal range.
This is why Britney has a record deal.
She was alright. but you so can tell the decline in vocal ability from baby one more time, to oops, to britney, to in the zone; then finally the over computerized black out that started the whole major auto tuning and computerization era.
+Destiny Miller but i think after all the misuse of her voice it's harmed
She used auto tune well before Blackout. Born To Make You Happy and Dont Let Me Be The Last To Know are examples. And no, it's not used because she cant sing.
. roflmao!!! those weren't autotuned
melhor a voz dela quando era pequena
She could actually sing when she was young.
Everybody talking about her singing which is fine. But it’s more than that it’s her stage presence it’s her persona it’s her confidence. When Britney performed in her prime especially VMAs u froze u were captivated. Other better singers can’t come close to that.
Britney is a legend for a reason. She can sing AND dance! She's an entertainer.
she never was on drugs she had personal struggles and emotionally and mentally couldn't handle it, never believe the media they like to trash her and a lot of other celebrities just like michael jackson. But she is such a strong woman and she is so happy now :)
Watching this like a proud parent.That's my girl!❤
Isnt it weird that her voice is lower when she's younger?
that's actually her natural voice. she intentionally thins her voice out to give it that lighter sound. her actual voice is this deep. perfume is a good showcase of her more natural voice.
Oh. Thank you
asdfghalyssa13 They make her sing in that voice but that's not her natural tone.
Rebecca Her record label jives,manager and co‼️
That’s Britney’s natural voice even today she just doesn’t use it much. See - “Something to talk about” live it’s more recent 😊
At the beginning of the video the people should realize that the pitch she is forced to sing in is too high! Of course she can't hold notes long enough, in her headvoice is not enough air at a live convert to hold the note -.-! Damn it there should be one new song for her with her deep voice :(!
I'm a Slave 4 u is low
Her voice deteriorated because she sings really nasally and breathy.
forced upon her by the record label, it was not her choice.
Nah. She still has the deep voice as evident by her live vocals from a couple years ago. She just has to train that and she'll be fine. But then again, the baby vocals are what she's known for.
lol she was never on drugs she had personal struggless and she is a strong woman and overcame them and now she is better than ever, and she still is hot and having big hits since her breakdown: womanizer,circus,3,hold it against me,till the world ends and i wanna go. She is a legend
This makes me so sad. I was watching her on GMA and its like shes not the same person anymore. I've been a Britney fan since I was 5 and I will continue to love her and support her. I just wish she didn't seem "out of it" anymore.
Simplemente se merece ser la Princesa Del Pop..Sos unica Britney
I always wished she recorded "Open Arms" on an album!! That'd be a dream come true!
Yes she has. She sang You Oughta Know during the Circus tour and she sang over the track a lot throughout the Femme Fatale Tour.
What a pretty voice. Very soothing.
At least she's making a huge amount of money whether she sings live or not. She may not be the best singer out there but she can definitely sing. She made a mark on the music industry so to everyone who says she has no talent, go see her star in the hollywood walk of fame. State your opinion nicely. Some of you are over their 20s yet you still pick a fight over the web. Come on, you could do better than that. You wouldn't want other people talk bad about you or anyone you love right? Just state your opinion nicely.
I'm not so sure you're right. It's obvious that she's subject to enormous pressures because of the massive money interests that people around her (her team, her label, the industry) have in whatever she does, but I still think she has important input in what she releases. Producers constantly say that they don't have to tell her how to render a line because she nails it by herself in her own way. And I think she has an active role in picking the songs even when she doesn't write them herself.
her voice is same live nd record..
I wish Britney would get back to her old style of singing. I really like her ballad voice. It has a soothing, sexy, romantic touch like a saxophone.
I wish there was a better recording of her singing you outta know, i love it
I wish you would've added when she used to sing live on The Mickey Mouse Club at only 11 years old because she was so amazing on there as well. Singing, Acting & Dancing.
Love this video thank you for making it!!!
OMFG her silent night was WHOAAAAAAAAAAA
gosh
And don't forget her charisma, stage presence and artistry
And Christina doesn't have the X-factor that can make she become one of the most iconic pop star, a true legendary like Britney, and never will.
Christina belts her notes, and does other things that you are not suppose to.
Britney forever!!
britney may be a great performer on stage i grew up with her music. but truth is no one can beat christina's voice.
i wonder where that big voice went from when she was young.... i'd love to hear it. if she would come out with something good. that would be nice.
Its still there Im sure deep down.
@@bicknell67 lol
and that boys and girls is what you call TALENT!
It's not that she can't sing. To this day she has a great voice. She just doesn't try anymore. She says that dancing is her passion. She dances, but it seems she doesn't want to try. I believe she can hit some of those notes without autotune if she wanted.
I was told she can change her voice.
You are amazing britney spears i love your voice its authentic no one can do the same the way you sing
Her singing from :1 -1:47min: I'm FUCKING MINDBLOWN..WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK! Could you imagine her now vocally , if she wasn't forced to sing in an unatrual tone to suit the "times" which she came out!? ...I have a new found respect for her...this shit needs to go VIRAL DAMN!
christina can't handle her own voice, she destroys it everytime she sings, its so powerful even herself can't take it.
Among all your songs, I like the most is every time.
7:56 Beyonce copied it all for the grammy performance of if I were a boy.
The Run The World choreo has the hands move from Im a Slave 4 U, she's so unoriginal, yet people dare to call her queen.
She had a very unique voice. Greatest performer of all time,
Despiste her unique voice Britney has that lil something that not everybody's Has, thats why now days even tho shes not doing that much, STILL RELEVANT ❤️
Britney is a true star right when she was born. And the bigger she grows up the brighter she shines.
She is sooo talented. Her true voice, is the deep one. And Jive makes her sing with the studio voice, but you know, I am a singer and singing with a voice diferent to yours is sooooo dificult, so she is very talented. But she should sing with her real voice, because it's really good and i don't think thats what makes her successfull. I think she owes succees to her way to sing and move, and the pressence she has onstage. I still have some hope that she'll make a CD with her real voice lol
I don't really care that she used to sing live when she was 16. The thing that bothers me is she lip-synchs at every show she does past 2000. No singer should do that, I wouldn't pay for a concert like that.
If she can indeed she should at least sing-along to her recordings while she performs them live and amplificated.