Oh, what could have been! It’s been a massive hit for Lady Gaga and Beyonce, but apparently Britney Spears had first dibs on recording “Telephone” after Lady Gaga offered it to her first. Rodney Jerkins, who produced the song, revealed last year that himself and a pre-famed GaGa had written the song for Spears’s “Circus” album, but her label passed and it never made the final cut of the LP. Though Britney never recorded a finished version of the song, a clip claiming to be a demo of Spears singing “Telephone” was posted on YouTube yesterday.
Per MTV:
At press time MTV News had not received responses from either camp about the authenticity of the leaked demo, which first popped up on the site ileaks.com. The track is remarkably similar to the finished version, with Britney singing in the same stuttered, AutoTuned voice as Gaga on the finished product. At points during the chorus, Britney’s multi-tracked vocals take on a high, Madonna-esque tone.
The track has spare instrumentation, with gently plucked strings in the intro that are overtaken by the same driving beat and swirling synths as the finished recording in Gaga’s The Fame Monster. The busy dial tones and the “not in service” message at the end are also in place, but in general, the demo lacks the punch of Gaga’s version.
So what do you think – Fake or not? You be the judge. To me it sounds like an amateur’s attempt at reproducing the original to sound like a demo. Or more like Justin Bieber – pre-puberty (click HERE to see The Bieb’s tattoo!)
I much prefer the soldiers in Afghanistan anyway…
what’s this about, you made this shxt up?!!!!!!!!
Love our boys in Afghanistan! That was funny as hell!
But I do think Brit would have lent a better “sound” to the song…she has the more mechanical, fake-voicebox sound to her that I feel is more “in tune” to how the song sounds.