Britney Spears "Blackout"Grade: A-
OK. I love Britney Spears but I am going to try to be as partial as I can with this. "Blackout" is the best album of Britney Spears' career. Ever.
After a rollercoaster of a year for her, Britney Spears comes back to do what she does best. "Blackout" is a surprisingly solid album with amazing beats and full of energy and attitude. The voice aspect of it though, is somehow under-rated. Britney's voice is blurred by synthetizer that kinda makes her sound like a robot in every single song. But that is what makes the songs of the album so great.
After the now world-wide hit "Gimme More", Britney gets to deliver even more solid tracks, such as "Radar", "Get Naked", "Why Should I be Sad?", "Freakshow" and "Toy Soldier". This last one, is a master piece. For any dance music lover, it is just like hearing the Milan Cathedral choir. It's like music to my ears. But the credit of the success of "Blackout" is not Britney's, it's mainly the producers. Danja, Bloodshy and Avant, The Neptunes, J.R Rothem and T-Pain among others.
"Blackout" has mostly received amazing reviews. "Entretainment Weekly" magazine gave it a B+, while "People Magazine" gave it 3 out of 4 stars. The Associated Press, MTV, US Weekly and the Chicago Sun-Times have also praised this album. And it is just the beggining. Barry Weiss,the president of Britney's record label, Zomba Music Label, says they have shipped around a million copies of the album just in the United States and the Editor-in-chief of Billboard Magazine expect sales of this album to be around 200-300 thousand copies on the first week, making it debut at number 1.
I don't doubt it. The critical and mass reception of "Gimme More" has been more than impressive, and has shut out many bad comments about her, shiftin the focus from her personal life to her career. Even though her personal life is going down the drain, her career still has a bit of hope. "Blackout" is such an amazing album, that it just makes me imagine how great would it be to have Britney actually doing promotion about it.
Still, this album will be a worldwide hit, despite herself. "Blackout" is on sale in parts of Latinamerica and Europe right now, and it will come out in the UK on Monday and in the US and Canada on Tuesday. You can stream it free on mtv.com, vh1.com, and logoonline.com. After you hear it, you will want to buy it. Guaranteed. BRITNEY IS BACK, BITCH.
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