From MTV News…
The singer has chosen to remake the 1988 song for the first single off her next project, a greatest-hits album due November 16 that is now to be called, Greatest Hits: My Prerogative, according to her label. The cover, according to those who’ve heard it, doesn’t sound much like the original and has a Bloodshy & Avant touch to it, a reference to the Swedish production team of Christian “Bloodshy” Carlsson and Pontus Avant. The pair produced the song and last worked with Spears on “Toxic,” where they embellished her vocals with a techno-lite beat.The choice of this particular song could also be interpreted ? like “Overprotected” and “Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” ? as a statement on the singer’s life and the media reaction to some of her recent decisions, including her engagement to dancer Kevin Federline “It’s True: Britney’s Engaged”). The song’s lyrics read, “Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me/ Why don’t they just let me live/ I don’t need commission/ Make my own decisions/ That’s my prerogative.”
The song, which will hit radio on September 14, will be one of two new tracks on the collection. A separate greatest-hits DVD will be released on the same day as the album.
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Bloodshy & Avant + New Jack Swing + Cracksmoking New Edition member = SO BEST!
Isn’t it “I don’t need permission/make my own decisions?”
This should be one helluva cover. Thanks, Stereogum. Maybe next she can do that Ghostbusters II theme song.
Tim, I was thinking the same exact thing.. Not that I’m a closet Bobby Brown fan or anything..
I am really kinda looking forward to this, in that car wreck sort of way.
here’s the lyrics:
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Get Busy!
Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me
Why don’t they just let me live?
I don’t need commission, make my own decisions
That’s my prerogative
They say I’m crazy
I really don’t care
That’s my prerogative
They say I’m nasty
But I don’t give a damn
Getting girls is how I live
Some messy questions
Why am I so real?
But they don’t undersand me
I really don’t know the deal about her brother
Trying hard to make it right
Not long ago
Before I win this fight, sing
Chorus:
Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me
Why don’t they just let me live?
Tell me why I don’t need commission
Make my own decisions
That’s my prerogative
It’s my prerogative (it’s my prerogative)
It’s the way that I wanna live (it’s my prerogative)
I can do just what I feel (it’s my prerogative)
No one can tell me what to do (it’s my prerogative)
‘Cause what I’m doing I’m doing for you
Don’t get me wrong
I’m really not souped
Ego trips is not my thing
All these strange relationships really gets me down
I see nothing wrong in spreading myself around
(chorus)
I can do what I wanna do (it’s my prerogative)
I can live my life (it’s my prerogative)
And I’m doing it just for you (it’s my prerogative)
Tell me, tell me why can’t I live my life
Live my life without all of the things
That people say oh
Yo, teddy kick it like this
Oh no no I can do what I wanna do
Me and you together together together together together
(chorus)
maybe the “my perogative” video will be like the jlo video with bennifer paparazzi shots…
all she needs now is a slanted high top fade, and an extra half hour in the tanning booth.
Ooooooooooh, well I guess she’ll tell us!
Personally, I don’t give a flying fuck what she does with her private life, as long as she stops being so phony in her public life.
Come to think of it, I really don’t care what she does with her public life either. So sing away, ya little homewrecker, I’m not gonna buy the album anyway.
That is some funny stuff.Britney Spearz With a Z y’All!!
Im not sure that people care what she does anymore.Perogative Smagotive have it at Brit.
PUDDIN u ignoramus! EVER call britney again and there will be hell to pay! and can you define just HOW britney is a “little homewrecker” … ? she should be classed as a goddess she has done nothing to harm you so you should be a little less obnoxious … sorry… did i say a little? i meant a shit load! I am gonna be buying both the CD and the DVD
I can’t believe in this day and age how low have we sunk when a talentless slut thinks she is something as great as Janis Joplin or the countless female artists we had in the past 20 years.
Britney, get your knee pads and practice the phrase ‘can I get you fries with your order?’ because I can see that’s gonna be your destiny in the next 10 years when your money and friends run out because of being so stupid and full of yourself (SHIT)
I really think that her singing is pretty good. I liked the Toxic video. I don’t understand what fascinates her about Kevin and I have been shocked by the difference between planned and unplanned photos. I’m sure she’s frustrated with the fickle nature of her fans and the micro-inspection of her day-to-day existence, thus this attempt to rebel with B.B.’S remake. I just hope she doesn’t follow him in other ways. It would be surreal if she is continually arrested for beating up defenseless, financially-dependent Kevin. LOL
I THINK SHE IS DOING A GRATE JOB ON CHOOSEING A REAL MAN MUSIC AND NOW SHE UNDERSTANDS WHAT BOBBY WAS TALKING ABOUT AND SHE IS FEELING HIM MORE.
can any one tell me how to down load it
Most importantly wtf is going on with her outrageous video…i mean isnt it finsihed? is she going to finish it? when the fuck is it coming out?
Come on… Kevin isn’t a Real Man. That’s Thomas Haden Church’s title… Thomas Haden Church: He’s a Man…
As for Britney covering Bobby Brown, has she been rubbing her nose, snorting and flaring her nostrals lately?
To quote Britney on an MTV special from this past weekend: “I don’t like people, but I like Madonna…” Well, if you don’t like people, why did you become a PERFORMER (God help us if she’s called an actual ARTIST), for God’s sake?!?
“I saw nothing wrong in spreading myself around.” <= from Britney’s mouth to your ears.
LOL
*.UMM.. I have the lyrics to Brittney’s version and it says permission it doesn’t say commision do you people even know what commision means? Please I’m more than likely younger than any of yuns and I know what it means….So go get out old Mr.Webster and look it up…P.S. HERE ARE THE RIGHT LYRICS.*.[Spoken:]
People can take everything away from you
But they can never take away your truth
But the question is..
Can you handle mine?
They say I’m crazy
I really don’t care
That’s my prerogative
They say I’m nasty
But I don’t give a damn
Getting boys is how I live
Some ask me questions
Why am I so real?
But they don’t undersand me
I really don’t know the deal about my sister
Trying hard to make it right
Not long ago
Before I won this fight
[Chorus:]
Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me
Why don’t they just let me live?
I don’t need permission, make my own decisions
That’s my prerogative
that’s my prerogative
(it’s my prerogative)
It’s the way that I wanna live (it’s my prerogative)
You can’t tell me what to do
Don’t get me wrong
I’m really not souped
Ego trips is not my thing
All these strange relationships really gets me down
I see nothing wrong in spreading myself around
Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me
Why don’t they just let me live?
I don’t need permission, make my own decisions
That’s my prerogative
That’s my prerogative
Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me
Why don’t they just let me live?
I don’t need permission, make my own decisions
That’s my prerogative
that’s my prerogative
It’s the way that I wanna live (it’s my prerogative)
You can’t tell me what to do
why can’t I live my life
without all of the things
That people say
oh oh
Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me
Why don’t they just let me live?
I don’t need permission, make my own decisions
That’s my prerogative (they say I’m crazy)
Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me
Why don’t they just let me live? (they say I’m use to)
I don’t need permission, make my own decisions
That’s my prerogative
(it’s my prerogative).*
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