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Sep 21, 2011It's enough of a reinvention to suggest that Britney will know what to do when the teen-pop phenomenon of 1999-2001 passes for good.
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Many of the tunes are good for a romp around the kitchen (or the dance floor, if you prefer) but the girl is right when she says she is yet to come into her own both as a woman and a recording artist.
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Q MagazineWhile her normal source of junior raunch [Max Martin] churns out the usual fesity hits... the remaining chastity-endorsing mush is nowhere near as exciting. [Dec 2001, p.131]
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Britney and 'Britney' still works best when making a good pop cheese and dance sandwich.
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Britney is by far her most personable album, the most consistently playful and the least wince-inducing.
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An unmitigated drag.
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SpinAmazingly enough, she does sound almost human. [Jan 2002, p.108]
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Other than the absence of ellipses in the title, ''Britney'' finds pop's poster girl for virginal vamping in an awkward adolescence, wavering between playing it safe and busting a few tentative new moves.
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BlenderIt's hard to listen to the rest of Britney without imagining what the album would have sounded like had [the Neptunes] produced the whole thing. [#4, p.121]
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A nicely varied, wholly satisfying collection.
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While she's been guilty of gluing sure-fire singles together with rotten fillers on her previous two albums, Britney uses this opportunity to take the odd risk and adds a welcome edge to her sound.
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Most of the good parts of the Britney that originally hit us, baby, one more time (then oops!...did it again) drown in breathy vocals and multiproduced, tweaked-to-perfection studio gimmickry.
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Too much of Britney is dictated by Max Martin's teen-pop formula.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 395 out of 518
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Mixed: 49 out of 518
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Negative: 74 out of 518
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Sep 10, 2011
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SairoSOct 25, 2005One of the best albums I've ever heard1 Too bad they made a terrible choice about the singles...
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May 9, 2018