Britney Spears' Femme Fatale 'Not Done,' Dr. Luke Says

'We're in the middle of it right now,' producer says of March 15 release.
By Jocelyn Vena

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With a little more than five weeks left until the release of Femme Fatale, it seems that Britney Spears is still working alongside the album's executive producers, Dr. Luke and Max Martin, to put the finishing touches on the album.

"We're in the middle of it right now. It's a little bit fluid right now. I can't even say at this stage what songs for sure are making it and what songs aren't," Dr. Luke told RollingStone.com. "We're working with a lot of producers and overseeing it with her A&R and record label and management and trying to make something cohesive." Bottom line, he said, is that "it's not done."

Not to worry: Spears apparently is so speedy when it comes to hitting the studio, Luke has no qualms that they'll make the March 15 deadline. "Britney's really fast," Dr. Luke said. "She gets it done."

The super-producer also opened up about the album's debut single, "Hold It Against Me," noting that it was meant for another pop princess: "We might have played it for her, but it definitely wasn't a Katy Perry record," he explained. "We had it for a while. I wanted to make sure it didn't sound like everything else I've done. I brought it into [producer] Billboard, and he just killed it. It can be hard in the verse, and the bridge is super, super hard, but the chorus is super pop. You can play that chorus acoustically on a guitar and it's still going to sound great."

Others producers on the album include Bloodshy and Benny Blanco. Dr. Luke took to Twitter to tease fans with possible track titles for the release. He shared, "One of these titles could be a new brit song: a) booga dooga b) the sun is up c) seal it with a kiss d) monkey c monkey do."

Other reported titles are leaking as well. According to a posting on Popjustice.com, other Femme Fatale tracks might include "Antidote" (described as a Ke$ha-esque dance track), "Switch You On" (a mid-tempo song about sex) and "I I I Wanna Go O O" (another dance track).

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Britney Spears Releases Another 'Hold It Against Me' Teaser

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Three teasers down; a bunch more to go! On Friday, Britney Spears kicked off the countdown to her "Hold It Against Me" video premiere by giving fans a sneak peek at the video's space-age, Jonas Åkerlund-directed world. With only a week and a half until the clip drops, Brit is slowly getting fans pumped with more teases.

On Sunday, a day after appearing dressed in red in another teaser, Britney posted a nine-second clip of the video on YouTube. In it, the camera pans to multiple television monitors, as scenes from some of the singer's most iconic videos, including "Slave 4 U" and " ... Baby One More Time," are played. Other monitors show dance rehearsals, and "Toxic" is played before transitioning into "HIAM."

In the room, made up completely of television monitors, the top of Spears head appears — certainly an über-tease about what is still to come. Fans are then told there are 11 days left until the video's release. Along with the clip, Spears tweeted, "Just saw a new cut of #HIAM. SOOOO excited to share it! 11 days to go...."

Brian Friedman, who choreographed the video, recently told MTV News that the clip pushes all boundaries.

"Artistically, this video, I think, surpasses a lot of her other videos," he teased. "So many of her videos are iconic, though. You look at 'Toxic' and you look at 'Slave,' even 'Oops ... I Did It Again': People are gonna remember those videos forever. [In] ' ... Baby One More Time,' she made schoolgirl outfits relevant and so popular. This video is artistically a masterpiece, and I don't think that Britney has pushed the envelope in this way ever in any of her videos."

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Justin Bieber hits the road with a small army. In a new, exclusive clip from his 3-D film, "Never Say Never," out this weekend, fans get an inside look at the men and women who help Bieber stay on schedule and stay sane during those grueling days on the road.

"You know I want people to see me in my everyday life," Bieber says in the clip.

Fans then get to meet Ryan Good, Bieber's stylist. "Ryan's like the coolest older brother ever. When Justin's down, I'm like, 'Ryan go make him laugh,' and Justin's cracking up," Allison Kaye, the tour's general manager, explained of Bieber's sidekick.

So what is Kaye like? "Allison's the stern one," Good explains. "She's the one that handles business."

Other members of Bieber's team include Carin, his "big sister" figure who assists Ryan with wardrobe; Dan Kanter, his musical director; Mama Jan, his vocal coach; and Kenny: "[He] is technically Justin's security guard, but his everything," Kaye explains.

"It's an uncle/nephew relationship," Kenny adds in the clip. "In my phone, I have him programmed as 'nephew.' "

His manager, Scooter Braun, also appears in the sneak peek. He explains that his job is more far-reaching than just a manager. "Ninety percent of my job is helping him become a good man. It's a family, so we're supporting each other," he said. "There's so many people out there who think he's gonna be a teen sensation and he's going to go away. I wouldn't bet against Justin."

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In January, when "Tik Tok" was just starting to hit, I described Ke$ha as "a 22-year-old pop confectionary/cautionary tale." By November, when "We R Who We R" debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, I had crowned her an "outcast icon." The truth probably lies somewhere in between those two statements, but if there's a better way to sum up the pop star's rather incredible rise to fame, I am unaware of it.

Because in 2010, there really was no one else who came close to matching Ke$ha, whether in terms of sheer chart dominance ("Tik Tok," enjoyed the year's longest run at #1, spending nine weeks atop the Hot 100), or pure WTF-ery. She began the year as a belching, squelching, booze-swilling party monster and ended it as perhaps the most unlikely of role models — an unrepentant oddball who not only dared to speak her mind, but defy conventions, too. And through it all, she remained largely unclassifiable, shifting between genres (pop, hip-hop, rock) and personas (dumpster-diving diva, Topanga Canyon bohemian, DayGlo star child) with each successive hit. And because of that, Ke$ha became one of the year's most interesting characters, the kind of pop oddity that leaves critics alternately grasping at adjectives and scratching their heads.

"I think 'What is Ke$ha?' is definitely the question, more than 'Who is Ke$ha?' because the 'What?' is really the thing," New York Times writer Jon Caramanica told MTV News. "When she first came into the game, she was this pop singer with a little bit of a country background, but [doing] this sort of whiny, white-girl rap ... but, if anything, 'Tik Tok' proved there's an entire audience of people who are pop fans, but who have a really high tolerance for rap music. Maybe they're not going to buy a Kanye West record, but they're not unafraid of hip-hop. And with Ke$ha, and her loose, 'I don't give a f---' approach to making these songs resonates with the loose, 'I don't give a f---' approach of the fans in listening to the songs. They hear something of themselves in her."

Of course, Ke$ha suffered for her, uh, art, becoming one of the year's most popular punching bags — particularly following a pair of bizarre performances on "Saturday Night Live" — but as the year draws to a close, her grip on the pop world seems to be permanent. Not only is she the unlikeliest of stars, she's also one of the most persistent ... and love her or hate her, you've got to admit that she made 2010 just a bit more bearable, even if it was with her willingness to push the boundaries of absurdity. Well, her songs were pretty great, too. And she did it entirely her way.

"I think Ke$ha's definitely gone way past her 15 minutes of fame, [but] the appeal with her is that there's an honesty," Noah Callahan-Bever, editor in chief of Complex magazine, said. "In a market of totally prefab pop stuff, there's almost a sloppiness to her whole persona, and I think that realness appeals to people. I think it doesn't hurt that she works with the best producer in pop music, either," he said, referring to right-hand man Dr. Luke.

In 2010, thanks to that winning combination of pitch-perfect pop and pure, unfiltered weirdness, Ke$ha pretty much conquered the world. She won over fans and earned begrudging respect from the critics. And she wore dead animals on her head. Wherever she goes in 2011, I'll follow. And I'll likely be just as perplexed as the rest of you.

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