Britney Spears' "Kill The Lights" Hits Internet, "Womanizer" Gets Mash-Up

Another track from Britney Spears' Circus, "Kill The Lights," hit the internet today. Like Blackout's standout "Piece of Me," "Kill" documents Brit's often love-hate relationship with the paparazzi, with "the lights" in this case being the flashbulbs that follow her everywhere. "Kill" also reunites Brit with producer Danja, who featured prominently on Blackout. And in case you like a dose of indie rock with your pop music, check out this awesome Hood Internet mash-up of Brit's chart-topping "Womanizer" with the Department of Eagles' excellent "No One Does It Like You." Circus is due out December 2nd, Spears' 27th birthday.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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