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Happy Birthday to this under-rated gem! 10 years on and the message is just as powerful as it was the first time. Let’s take a look back at the video and share some interesting facts.
The music video for “Someday (I Will Understand)” was directed by Michael Haussman. Spears commented that he “[did] a great job capturing the song, the essence and the emotion” and added that the video had “a different feeling” from any of her previous videos. It was shot entirely in black-and-white. Spears asserted that her life had “come full circle” and implied that in the process she underwent changes in her soul and body, as shown in the video.It premiered on June 14, 2005 during the fifth and last episode of Spears’s reality show Britney & Kevin: Chaotic, titled “Veil of Secrecy”. The music video features a pregnant Spears lying in bed and walking around a house while singing to her unborn child. She also gazes through the window at the Roman sculptures in the garden.
Spears composed “Someday (I Will Understand)” on the piano at her house, two weeks before she learned of her pregnancy with her first child, Sean Preston. She explained the song came “like a prophecy… when you’re pregnant, you’re empowered”
“It seemed very obvious what the song was about — motherhood — but there was no physical sign that Britney was pregnant during the sessions,” Sean McGhee, who engineered, programmed, and mixed the song, wrote in an email. “Certainly, we didn’t ask her any questions, I would not have wanted to pry into her personal life, but when the news came out a few weeks later, it wasn’t too much of a surprise.”
Like “Everytime,” the ethereal ballad had been written by Spears at a piano and produced by Guy Sigworth, who has worked with Björk and Madonna and was one half of the short-lived duo Frou Frou. Engineer McGhee said he was impressed with Spears’ songwriting. “I think it’s actually very difficult lyrically to write something like ‘Someday’ without being mawkish,” he said. “A lot of pop songwriters would really struggle to write about it in a sensitive and personal way, but Britney had written something really beautiful. Great melody, great lyrics, but still totally pop, and totally her. Much harder than it sounds.”
McGhee said he wasn’t told whether the song was to be a one-off single or part of a record. “If there was a larger context to it at the time, I wasn’t aware of it,” he said, although he remembered “Mona Lisa” was “mentioned by one of her label executives as a departure for Britney from what she’d done before.”
“Someday” and a re-recorded and reworked “Mona Lisa” both ended up on a 2005 EP that came with the DVD release of Chaotic. On the new “Mona Lisa,” the line “cuz she’s gone” became “she’s been cloned,” and the second verse was rewritten to be even more prophetic: “Now see everyone’s watching / As she starts to fall / They want her to break down / And be a legend of a fall,” Spears sang.
Happy Birthday, ‘Someday (I Will Understand)’! We will be watching on repeat!
Have not got the time to catch up on Britney news every day? Well, we have got your back! Every week we will post the highlights of the past week and summarise the most important Britney news of the week.
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EVERY BRIT LOVES BRIT
Everyone loves a new, and allow us to add adorable, Britney interview! Britney featured on Good Morning Britain this week to chat ‘Pretty Girls’, possible future collabs, a teaching career if she was not the Queen of Pop, Iggy and meeting Brad Pitt… which she would love to do again. We love that an icon as famous as Britney still has her FANGURL moments, you just do not get more down to earth than that! But the best part? Brit would love to become a Brangelina nanny! Let’s be real here, who wouldn’t?
Can you actually imagine?? Brit would be the best Nanny ever! Although Angelina would need to ensure that the schedule fits around Brit’s music career… we would not be able to deal with no new music! Like we refuse!!
Talking about new music… The day is FINALLY here! Pretty Girls hits the UK! Show the world what you got and let’s get Pretty Girls to the top of the UK charts!! Get ‘dem pounds out!
It is official – Huffington Post has crowned Britney Spears the queen of social networking! Although, we could have told you that already! Time for that name change, we have been calling it BRITTER for months now!
Even though Britney is not the one with the most followers (although she should be), her interaction with fans is second to none and the effect that she has on Twitter is far more powerful that anyone else….Now that is true star power! This week is a perfect example of why Britney is the Queen of them all:
PERSONALNEY shares her inside jokes she has with her friends:
PROMO-NEY changes her profile pic to this smokin’ Pretty Girls snap:
And this is all in one week! PHEW! Britney sure knows how to interact with her fans and unlike other celebs, shows that she is just as real and as normal as we all are. Humble is just not enough of a word to describe our Queen B. If anyone deserves the crown, it is Britney! Yet another win to add to her belt, when will your faves?
Whilst we are on the topic of Twitter… if you live in AUS – you do not want to miss this!! The Intimate Britney Australia is holding auditions this week!
With the Hottest Britney Army Awards last week, we know how smoking hot the Barmy really is – so we expect to see a few of you hotties in the show, please and thank you!
The sound of Britney’s excitement is totally epic! And just BTW – those vocals – pure slayage! Liveney at her best!
Britney took some quality family time to hang out with her boys and their friends! Mom’s just do not get cooler than this! Can you imagine hanging around with Britney when you were a kid?? Like we cannot deal!
It is like a GTA reunion! Actually, if you mashed up these songbirds GTA tracks, you would get, ‘Gimme More Red Lips’… just a thought.. Check out this epic studio pic they posted:
So, what could this be Barmy? New Britney music? New Sam Bruno music? Was Britney helping write a new track for another artist? Or could this be a new addition to the mysterious album 9? So many questions, so little answers… Guess we will take another one of those, ‘You will need to wait and see’ cards…
Galaxy started off the trend first and the Barmy worked (bitch) hard to make it happen. Working hard sure does pay off – Congrats Barmy, Pretty Girls is officially nominated for a #TEENCHOICE award!!
My Prerogativeney eat your heart out! The hair, the look, the swag – all on point. The Papz were lapping it up. Check out this epic shot of Brit, shopping in Thousand Oakes:
SLAY us B – we are totally picking up what you are putting down!
It looks like Crossroads 2: Cross Harder may be a thing after all…
Well – sort of… Sean Mullin revealed in an interview this week that he worked on a film project for Brit…
CUT PRINT FILM: How did you arrive at the idea of the meta-aspect of Amira selling pirated romantic comedies for a living?
SEAN MULLIN:One of my first screenwriting jobs, I was hired to write a screenplay for Britney Spears, so I worked with her for about a year. In order to prep for that job, I watched every romantic comedy that’s ever been made. There are so many horrible romantic comedies out there, and I learned everything not to do from watching all of those. I did want to take a couple jabs at them. I did think there was something kind of ironic about a character who sells these cheesy kind of movies on Canal St. and is unwittingly caught up in her own love story.
Could we be reading too much into this? He did say, one of his first jobs… so this could after all be work that has since been scrapped… even though the story line has been registered:
Could this movie still be happening? The script sure does sound amazing – so we really hope so! Maybe we should call on the Smurfs to transport Brit back on to the big screen!
The wait is finally over!!! By This time tomorrow – you can officially own Tom’s Diner on iTunes!!
What seems like a lifetime of waiting – it will now be ours to own in all it’s glory. BARMY – now is the time to work – lets get the track straight to the top of the charts and show the world that this has to be a single!!
Giorgio also mentioned Tom’s Diner as one of his fave collabs in THIS interview.
Britney Spears: “Tom’s Diner” 2015
Britney asked if I was interested in producing her with the [Suzanne Vega] song “Tom’s Diner.” I started to record the chords because, on an a cappella song, you can have whatever chords you want. When I was happy with the tracks, I sent it to her. I was shocked by how big she is worldwide. When the song was leaked, she was trending for almost a day. I knew she was big, but I did not know that she was that big.
Ummm… Giorgio – we do not want to be rude here, but HOW THE HELL did you not know how huge Britney is – where have you been for the past 16 years… like seriously!?!? They do not call Britney an Icon and the Queen of Pop for nothing.. Oh and BTW – big mistake not making this a single already.. Silly Billy!
Since we are on the topic of coffee… well indirectly… it is after all mentioned in Tom’s Diner.. Britney made a quick stop over for a caffeine boost and at the same time, sent our hearts pulsating into over-drive:
HUBBA HUBBA! Flawless! We are in total awe!
Looking fierce and snatching weaves B! Here is one more…. after all, it would be wrong to deprive you of a second glance…
That took our breath away… so that will have to be all for this week y’all! We will leave you with this Robots With Rayguns remix… well kind of more like a mashup.. not as great as the original.. or their other remixes.. but we suppose it will do..
Jayden James and Sean Preston are becoming serious skater pros! Talent sure does run in the family! Great to see Brit spending time with her kids during her Vegas break!
Britney was spotted at a Corner Bakery in Los Angeles today, grabbing a quick caffeine boost – and boy did she look super fine!
Check out the full article in The Daily Mail HERE and for more pictures click HERE! Is it just us, or are you getting a ‘My Prerogative’ vibe from these pics? We literally had to do a double take!
Brit – we are totally digging this look!! Love, love, love it!
Brit also took some time to Tweet fans about the release of Pretty Girls in the UK!
Happy Birthday I Wanna Go! We will be jamming to this classic all week here at HQ!
