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“Telephone” actually sounds a lot like Britney’s 2007 hit “Piece of Me,” proving yet again how much impact Britney has had on the sonics of current pop.
If Britney’s Version of Telephone” proves anything, it’s that Blackout may be the most influential pop album of the past five years.
It’s no surprise that this brilliant second single from Blackout comes courtesy of the Swedish production team Bloodshy & Avant. They were also responsible for “Toxic,” Britney’s last great single before Blackout. Here Britney Spears answers all of the critics directly, forcefully, and fearlessly. Critical journalists and paparazzi take cover.
Pros
* Down tempo electro drama grabs instant attention
* Brilliant vocal combination of sexy and angry
* Lyrics that leave no questions asked
Cons
* Few minuses here
Description
* Kicks off with loud synth and sexy vocal sample
* Down tempo dance beat
* Direct, nearly spoken lyrics
Guide Review – Britney Spears – Piece of Me
Put down the tabloid and listen to Britney Spears on this second single from the album Blackout. She may indeed have serious serious personal problems, but this is quite simply a woman fighting back against what she perceives as injustice with fierce anger bubbling beneath the service of an extraordinarily sexy electro instrumental track. Rarely has a pop star so effectively answered critics. “Piece of Me” makes Michael Jackson’s “Scream” sound like a whimper.
“Piece of Me” isn’t the most obviously engaging track on the album when you listen the first time through. However, the atonal slabs of synth propelling the song forward ultimately will stick like glue in your head…as will the firmly articulated lyrics. “I’m Mrs. ‘Oh my God that Britney’s shameless.’ You want a piece of me?” Ouch.
Even with ongoing media fixation on Britney Spears’ parental and personal issues, it will be difficult for fans and critics alike to ignore this single. The string of phenomenal singles from “…Baby One More Time” to the most recent “Gimme More” continue to argue for serious consideration of Ms. Spears as one of the top mainstream pop artists of the past decade. Even under distress she delivers in the studio, and that is the mark of a professional.
The following italicized article is from The Official Britney Bashers TMZ.com:
One thing Britney Spears is not thankful for: the support of the record-buying public. TMZ
That’s because “Blackout” is now officially a total and utter flop. It has sold a total of 430,000 copies after a full month of release, according to the ever-perspicacious FOX News, and it’s going nowhere fast. Consider that each of Brit’s first three albums sold north of 10 million units (and the first two – more than 20 mil), and that the fourth, “In the Zone,” sold 609,000 in its first week. Britney’s getting’ dinged hard, y’all.
Well Blackout is not a flop to Us The Britney Fans and that’s all that matters! I think it did pretty well for a album without promotion!
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Britney the pop singer has long been eclipsed by Britney the train wreck. Since her last studio album, she’s become the star of an epic public meltdown, chronicled in tabloids and blogs: two marriages, one annulment, multiple rehab stints, a concussed live-television debacle, a failed custody battle and various misadventures in baby-dropping, head-shaving and crotch-exposing.
All of which makes the unfortunately titled Blackout an even more welcome surprise. Spears’s fifth studio album is her most consistent, a seamlessly entertaining collection of bright, brash electropop. As an exercise in damage control, it takes two tacks. About half the songs revel in anonymity that, under the circumstances, comes as a relief. On the airy Eurodisco of “Heaven on Earth,” the slinky R&B of “Why Should I Be Sad” or the hypnotic pole-dance pop of “Gimme More,” she could be any breathy starlet in the capable hands of ace producers.
Sent in by a britneyspearsblackout.com reader Scotty
This Just in from billboard!
FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT FOR A BRITNEY “BLACKOUT” AT #1
Britney Spears looks to have a clear path to top The Billboard 200.
First-day sales from the eight chains that report to Nielsen SoundScan’s Building Charts put Spears’ Jive/Zomba release “Blackout” at 124,000 on the report released today (Oct. 31).
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The judge in Britney Spears’ custody case has had harsh words for the pop star, but at least Spears is getting positive feedback in the court of musical opinion.
In fact, many reviewers have declared her new album, Blackout, the pop singer’s first album in four years, a major hit.
The AP’s music writer describes the club-y 12-song disc as, “not only a very good album, [but] it’s her best work ever – a triumph, with not a bad song to be found.”
The BBC went on to hail Spears’ song “Piece of Me” (with lyrics like: “I’m Miss American Dream since I was 17” and “Guess I can’t see no harm in working and being a mama”) as a “masterpiece.”
Even reviews that diss Spears’ can’t help but fawn a little. The Chicago Tribune’scritic writes, “Blackout is by far the most musically accomplished of Spears’ five studio albums” before slamming her as being “devoid of personality.”
“Gimme More,” the first single from Spears’ fifth album, is number 13 on this week’s Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and Blackout is currently ranked the number one most downloaded album on iTunes.
The following italicized aritlce is from www.hollwood.com:
Can ‘Blackout’ beat Britney’s bad press?
By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer 42 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES – On her new CD, “Blackout,” Britney Spears acknowledges that 2007 hasn’t been a charmed year. “I’m Mrs. Bad Media Karma, another day another drama,” the 25-year-old pop princess croons to a thumping dance groove on the song “Piece of Me.”
Pic Above THE OFFICIAL AUSTRALIAN BLACKOUT COVER(scan)
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Just when it seemed safe to write off Britney Spears as a punch line only capable of entertaining people through tabloid escapades, she goes and gets all musically relevant on us. “Blackout,” her first studio album in four years, is not only a very good album, it’s her best work ever – a triumph, with not a bad song to be found on the 12 tracks.
The good reviews for Britney Spears’ new album keep pouring in.This time from USA Today.
CLICK HERE to check it out. Otherwise, here are some highlight:- “Britney Spears hasn’t been able to lose the paparazzi in recent months, but she does joyously lose herself in music on her new Blackout…
”- “The notorious party girl’s first studio album in four years is wall-to-wall club-bangers, thanks to the pulsating beats and production board wizardry of Timbaland protégé Nate “Danja” Hills and her Toxic collaborators Bloodshy & Avant. Spears does her part by brashly slinking over the rhythms with sexy promises to “turn the heat up.”
- “The best thing about Blackout is that it makes no pretense about showcasing her vocal prowess with warbled ballads. For Britney, hitting the high notes means getting you into the groove so you can get into her. You can move your feet or just move on.”
Just when you thought it was time for her to hang up her sequined short shorts, Britney has seemingly churned out another hit album.
This was just Sent in from a britneyspearsblackout.com reader Scott!
Here’s the brand new review from THE source of entertainment!
The nasty custody battle. The hair-razing meltdown. The trips to rehab. The abysmal VMAs performance. Shall we go on? All of 25-year-old Britney Spears’ recent setbacks suggest that her fifth CD, ominously titled Blackout, would fan the flames of her hot mess of a year. Well, brace yourself for the biggest shock yet: Blackout — a collection of well-produced, thoroughly enjoyable dance songs — may just put this once-celebrated pop star back on top.
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Finally, a good week for Britney Spears? Just as we were getting to think that a lunar eclipse might come sooner, here’s some tentative cause for celebration.
In the space of 24 hours, the woman who yields roughly 82,000 results if you Google her name along with the phrase “troubled singer”, has been granted temporary visitation rights to her children and seen her new single Gimme More leap into the British chart’s top three.
Now, if Britney’s record company is to be believed, a good week just got better. Apparently, “unprecedented popular demand” has prompted SonyBMG to bring the release date of her comeback album Blackout forward by three weeks.
We’ve just been to the spooky SonyBMG Building Of Doom to listen to the Britney ‘Blackout’ album. Pictured is the stereo we listened to it on. Note the Pink sticker on the amplifier – never let it be said that record company employees do not have complete commitment to their artists.
Before we set off we were a bit ‘can we really be bothered with this’, considering most of the tracks seem to have leaked. But we’re glad we made the journey.
HERE IS THE NEWS:
The Britney album is really really incredible. It’s modern sounding and brilliantly produced but still absolutely pop. Most of the leaked tracks are different on the album, unheard tracks like ‘Toy Soldier’ are completely brilliant and hearing the whole lot in proper CD quality is a really exciting experience. It’s a really clever album which sounds like a complete body of work and which sounds very 2008, with a subtle sense of humour and a really danceable edge throughout.
Cover art aside, this is the best album of Britney’s career and one of the best pop albums of 2007. It’s in the shops next week so will probably leak in the next few days. In the meantime here is the top secret compact disc we listened to earlier.
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We’ve just been to the spooky SonyBMG Building Of Doom to listen to the Britney ‘Blackout’ album. Pictured is the stereo we listened to it on. Note the Pink sticker on the amplifier – never let it be said that record company employees do not have complete commitment to their artists.
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