In the Zone

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:57:49
Personnel includes: Britney Spears (vocals); Madonna (vocals); Ying Yang Twins (rap vocals); C "Tricky" Stewart, Moby, Bloodshy, Avant (various instruments, programming); Roy "Royalty" Hamilton (various instruments, background vocals); Guy Sigsworth (various instruments); Roy Gartrell (guitar, banjo); Jimmy Harry (guitar, keyboards, programming); Donnie Lyle, Gary O'Brien, Henrik Jonback (guitar); Steve Anderson (keyboards, programming); Kendall Nesbitt (keyboards); Thomas Lindberg (bass); Penelope Magnet, Courtney Copeland, Emma Roads, Roxanne Estrada, Chyna Royal, Black Cell, Cathy Dennis, Emma Holmgren, R. Kelly, Bud, Tricky, Kyron Leslie, Lisa Green, The Matrix (background vocals); Bollywood Strings. Producers include: Trixter, Roy "Royalty" Hamilton, Mark Taylor, Bloodshy, Moby. The Australian version features two additional tracks. Personnel: Britney Spears (background vocals); Roy Gartrell (guitar, banjo); Brian Kierulf, Jimmy Harry (guitar, keyboards, programming); Josh Schwartz (guitar, background vocals); Donnie Lyle, Henrik Jonback (guitar); Bollywood Strings (strings); Steve Anderson (keyboards, programming); DaCorna Boyz, Algozee, Kendall D. Nesbitt (keyboards); Christopher "Tricky" Stewart (programming, background vocals); Abel Garibaldi, Moby, Ian Mereness, Bloodshy & Avant (programming); Roy "Royalty" Hamilton, Roxanne Estrada, Courtney Copeland, Kyron Leslie, Wizardz of Oz, Penelope Magnet, Chyna Royal, Emma Roads, Kara DioGuardi, Ying Yang Twins, Blackcell, Jennifer Karr, B.U.D., Cathy Dennis (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Niklas Flyckt; Mark "Spike" Stent; Mark Taylor ; Mick Guzauski; Paul Logus; R. Kelly; Sean McGhee; Serban Ghenea. Recording information: Battery Studios, New York, NY; Chocolate Factory, Chicago, IL; Daddy's House Recordings, New York, NY; Decoy Studios, Studio City, CA; Metraphonic Studios, England; Murlyn Studios, Stockholm, Sweden; Olympic Studios, London, England; Record Planet, Hollywood, CA; The Dojo, New York, NY; Triangle Sound Studios, Atlanta, GA; Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, CA. Editors: Mike Tucker ; Brian Kierulf; Sean McGhee. Arrangers: Christopher "Tricky" Stewart; Steve Lunt; Roy "Royalty" Hamilton; Penelope Magnet; Jimmy Harry; Serban Ghenea; Bloodshy & Avant; Britney Spears. If 2001's Britney was a transitional album, capturing Spears at the point when she wasn't a girl, and not yet a woman, her 2003 follow-up, In the Zone, is where she has finally completed that journey and turned into Britney, the Adult Woman. Like her peer Christina Aguilera, Britney equates maturity with transparent sexuality and the pounding sounds of nightclubs, but since she's not as dirrty as Xtina, her spin is a little different. On In the Zone, Britney feels like the good girl next door cutting loose at college, since this is the first time she can indulge herself. She has been freed from her musical parent, Max Martin, who is absent for the first time from a Britney Spears album. Instead, Britney has decided to play the field and work with a bunch of different collaborators, including Madonna, Moby, the Matrix, TrixsterRoy "Royalty" Hamilton, Bloodshy, and Avant, and R Kelly. Since she's so determined to be a woman, not a girl, she has completely shed the sugarcoated big hooks and sappy love songs that drove her stardom, concentrating on music that glides by on mellow grooves, or hits hard with its hip-hop beats. It's all club-ready, but despite some hints of neo-electro and the Neptunes, it doesn't quite sound modern -- it sounds like a cut from 1993, or Madonna's Bedtime Stories and Ray of Light. Production-wise, these tracks are not only accomplished, they're much more varied than any of her previous albums -- in particular, the sleek feel of Moby's "Early Mornin'," the alluring "Breathe on Me" from Mark Taylor, and the irresistible Bloodshy and Avant productions, "Showdown" and "Toxic." They make In the Zone surely her most ambitious, adventurous album to date. ~ Stephen Thomas
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