Britney Spears appear today that her new album, due March 15, is blue-blooded Femme Fatale – but the superstar accompanist and her Los Angeles producers are still allotment songs and free the final administration of the all-embracing sound. "It's not done," Dr. Luke, co-producing the anthology with longtime Britney assistant Max Martin and Montreal dance-pop songwriter Billboard, tells Rolling Stone. "We're in the average of it appropriate now. It's a little bit aqueous appropriate now. I can't even say at this date what songs for abiding are authoritative it and what songs aren't. We're alive with a lot of producers and administering it with her A&R and almanac characterization and administration and aggravating to accomplish something cohesive."
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The album, of course, will accommodate "Hold It Against Me," co-written by Dr. Luke, Martin and Bonnie McKee, the hot songwriter who bound Katy Perry's "California Gurls" and Taio Cruz' "Dynamite." Spears' new individual made its admission on the pop charts in mid-January at Amount One, afore bottomward to Amount Six endure week.
Originally, Dr. Luke and Martin, the Swedish songwriter abaft some of Spears' better hits, including "…Baby One More Time," planned to accord the song to Katy Perry. "We ability accept played it for her, but it absolutely wasn't a Katy Perry record," Dr. Luke says by buzz from Conway Recording Flat in Los Angeles. "We had it for a while. I capital to accomplish abiding it didn't complete like aggregate abroad I've done. I brought it into Billboard, and he just dead it. It can be harder in the verse, and the arch is super, cool hard, but the choir is super-pop. You can play that choir acoustically on a guitar and it's still traveling to complete great."
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Top 40 radio stations abide to circuit "Hold It Against Me" in approved rotation. "It feels like a absolutely obvious, easy-to-listen-to aboriginal single," says John Ivey, affairs administrator for KIIS in LA, which played the song already an hour the aboriginal day it came out. "You apprehend all those little locations that are so Britney – 'here's the video-breakdown-dance allotment of the song.' That's what my admirers adulation about her."
Although her 2008 anthology Circus awash beneath than 2 actor copies, not a huge amount accustomed Spears' history of blockbuster sales, retailers accept top hopes for the March release. "[Circus] concluded up accomplishing well, but we were a little alert about it - a little close improvement issues were traveling to be relevant," says Mark Hudson, music client for Trans World Entertainment, who predicts the new anthology could advertise 500,000 copies in its aboriginal week. "But this time around, her banal is higher."
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Dr. Luke aswell acclaimed that he and Martin, the controlling producers, plan on alive on several songs anon in accession to "Hold It Against Me." He aswell accepted Bloodshy (who co-produced Spears' archetypal "Toxic") and Benny Blanco (who formed on Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" and Perry's "California Gurls") were a part of several big names who would accomplish assembly appearances.
So far, Spears has alone by the LA flat two or three times to lay down her vocals. "Britney's absolutely fast," Dr. Luke says. "She gets it done."
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