Britney Spears

[craig 680]

Even the DJs turned on her this time - Work Bench failed to go #1 on the US Dance Club play chart.

[Baischion 0]

Yeah, it would be good if they didn't edit her voice to death

 

Perfume, however, is a FLAWLESS masterpiece lol

[MelbHawker 6,583]

Til It's Gone is a good song. Work B*tch was fun.

 

The rest of it is just awful.

[Bambino 24,290]

Haven't listened yet.

[Antidote 95]

I love Britney's music as well, but I didn't listen to Britney Jean yet... but your reviews are kinda scary

[THC 0]

Y'all are just mad because Will I Am produced it. 

[Stache 0]

There's like three tracks that are good the rest is rather mediocre. Maybe it's due to the fact the album has had zero promo but it feels like Britney doesn't really care anymore but her label made her put the album out so she was like 'okay I guess'.

 

I really liked Femme Fatale but Britney Jean feels so boring and half-assed

[One Five Ten 70]

I love it tbh. All u b---hes are shady as fuk

[Runway 27,876]

Perfume is my anthem

[Smooth Criminal 2]

Britney Spears’ Britney Jean is the pop star’s eighth album, and her fourth since crossing over fully into the realm of the uncanny. Spears has seemed like only a vague presence on her own records ever since Blackout in 2007, with her highly processed voice seeming like a thin gloss of recognizable branding over dance tracks that have often been well ahead of the curve, at least in terms of mainstream pop. She very rarely sounds present in the music, and most of the time, her voice sounds as though it was constructed without her direct involvement, as though she was the musical version of the infamous Tupac hologram at Coachella. It’s a strange tension to feel on a pop record – it’s a little like hearing posthumously produced songs featuring vocals by John Lennon, Ol Dirty Bastard, or Nat King Cole, but Britney Spears is still alive.

When Spears’ previous album Femme Fatale came out in 2011, Willa Paskin, then at Vulture, described the singer’s current status as “zombie fame.†“It’s like she’s a slot machine rigged to spew out radio singles,†she wrote. “The people around her are just pulling on the handle.†Spears lost control of her life in a very literal sense years ago – she’s been under the conservatorship of her father since 2008. She often seems sedated in public, and her life is managed to such an extent that it was vaguely shocking when she came across as lively and fully coherent in her run as a judge on The X Factor in 2012. But even if she seems to be little more together in the recent past, there’s always a lingering question of how much she’s really there. Does she really do anything of her own volition, or has she only gotten better at cooperating? Is there anything about her life that can be considered normal? What is going on in her head?                                                                                                            

Britney Jean is a solid pop record that occasionally tries to answer some of those questions while also feeling like the Spears album where she’s the most absent. The dance tracks, produced by A-list stars like Will.I.Am, Diplo, David Guetta, and Swedish House Mafia’s Sebastian Ingrosso, would mostly be just fine as straight-up EDM instrumentals, and she often sounds like a cheerleader on the sidelines of the music. But that’s fine, since Britney Spears records have essentially become a delivery mechanism for bringing EDM conventions into the mainstream. The entire middle section of the album is all thumping club music building up to the excellent “Til It’s Gone,†which basically feels like one long bass drop. The tracks are far more expressive than the lyrics. Britney’s words hint at a new status quo in her life – she’s in looooove! - but it’s hard to detect any particular emotion in her voice. The only time she ever gets emphatic is when she’s imploring, “You gotta work, b---h†on the album’s debut single. Maybe that’s the line on the record that she actually relates to the most. If it’s true that she’s really just a hostage in her own chaotic life, it would make a lot of sense.

It’s not actually a bad thing that Spears seems like a vague presence on her songs now. In a weird sci-fi sort of way, it’s sort of beautiful to imagine that at some point, her consciousness was uploaded to a hard drive, and her songs are made by sampling her digital ghost. She doesn’t sound like a person anymore, but she does sound like the idea of Britney Spears, the iconic pop star. We all know that particular Spears cadence, and when we hear it in her music now, it’s a welcome, familiar presence. It’s like a vague reminder of someone that we used to know, but remember very fondly.                                                                                                                                         

 

Buzzfeed has written this article and spills so much truth tea. And at the same time it breaks my heart reading it, since I'm a huge Britney fan. :emo:

 

I just want to tell Britney that if she doesn't want to do this anymore, she doesn't have to....I just hope her team cuts her some slack and lets her go. It is sad to see that she is forcefully being asked to do all this, when its clear she does not have any interest in this whatsoever.

 

She had so much potential, so much charisma before 2007. She really could have been giving all these new girls a run for their money, if she hadn't suffered that mental breakdown. 

[cometoogg 0]

ohhhh :(

[HarryTheNight 35]

very true, ive been saying this for a long time. mess at the popjustice will i am interview though that insists she does everything herself

[Smooth Criminal 2]

very true, ive been saying this for a long time. mess at the popjustice will i am interview though that insists she does everything herself

 

Even her biggest stans know that's a lie. Yeah maybe back in 1998-2004....but not anymore.

[Ziva 193]

Poor Britney :(

[HYPERCRUSH 42]

very true, ive been saying this for a long time. mess at the popjustice will i am interview though that insists she does everything herself