Glory
by Britney Spears
  • Record Label: RCA
  • Release Date: Aug 26, 2016
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 1657 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,397 out of 1657
  2. Mixed: 55 out of 1657
  3. Negative: 205 out of 1657
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  1. Scottx
    Nov 12, 2016
    0
    Britney Spears, a has been princess of pop, once again proves herself she lacks a musical progression, and isn't capable to deliver youthful, yet original sounding music to masses, Make Me single failed to breakthrough the album.
  2. Enrique_Liv
    Jun 22, 2018
    0
    Every britney album becomes worst and worst. This deserves negative score since her last album is already at zero.
  3. Barryth
    Jun 22, 2018
    0
    sorry I love Britney but this album is bad and repetitive and shows not a bit of growth
  4. Bradhoney
    Jul 1, 2018
    0
    another basic pop album from her, she doesnt evolve..she stays the same and its boring FLOP
    NOT GOOD
  5. Daianelm
    Oct 23, 2016
    0
    Nao entrando em detalhes de canções, mas no geral a Britney deixa muito a desejar nesse Glory . O album não marca em nenhum momento e acaba e te passa a sensação de que não escutou nada.
  6. TheCriticReview
    Nov 17, 2017
    3
    While Britney may not write about political stances and deep opinions (hello from 1998: she never has), she still holds the record in being capable of making fun, dance-worthy pop. Britney's personal touch, aside from her ad-libs, is in the music itself. Much like "Britney", "In The Zone", and "Blackout", you can feel Britney's signature touch and her personal style throughout all of "Glory".
  7. jake_norrie
    Oct 25, 2016
    0
    By far one of her worst albums to date, I want to tear my ears right off my head. Buy Joanne by Lady Gaga on Itunes for a good listen, this album is so a lot better and has a diverse sound without the use of autotune
  8. Oswa_Neria
    Jul 1, 2017
    0
    En lo personal, no es el mejor álbum de Britney, ella pues haber hecho algo mejor. Los ritmos no tienen nada innovador y las letras son simples. No fue de mi agrado.
  9. manu_carnevale
    Apr 5, 2017
    0
    Sorry I can't handle she never sings live so I think It's useless to give even just a point (of 10) to her. I'd like too see really talented people making music instead of her..
  10. MihuelAng
    Jun 15, 2018
    0
    Worst album I've had heard in my life. Clumsy is the worst, never heard anything worst than this song.
  11. jarlosr
    Jun 16, 2018
    0
    This album sucks. it's still full of filler and try-hard songs! She should have stayed retired. "Witness" was so much better than this.
  12. mar_varela
    Jun 18, 2018
    0
    one of the worst albums I've ever heard in my entire life, as mediocre as her voice
  13. beylanguage
    Jun 22, 2018
    0
    terrible, trash, only autotune, she’s can’t sing, she can’t do anything
  14. AndreiDorneles
    Oct 23, 2016
    0
    change your mind única música que presta desse álbum, o resto é uma vergonha pois nenhuma música representa a cantora britney spears, fatos???????????
  15. marcebovetti
    Oct 31, 2016
    0
    so much auto tune, where is the real Britney? where? it's seem that this pop artist had lost her crown of the princess of pop definitely, but people already loves she
  16. Toneespinoza
    Aug 31, 2016
    0
    I just listened the album and as a britney fan am disapointed..the album lacks of good lyrics, she hasnt grow since decade..and the sounds is so used by other artist like selena gomez or justin bieber, songs are fillers...just a DATED ALBUM..am really sad..she maybe over after this.
  17. fallouts
    Aug 31, 2016
    0
    Terrible music for club raiding tools. They basically strapped her face to a machine in a music factory and changed/fixed her voice as she did the first take. The lyrics make me want to knock my head on a hard surface in order to get a concession. Anything to escape this soulless music and contrived and low grade lyrics.
  18. RegisTadeu
    Sep 1, 2016
    1
    When it appeared in 1999 singing a pop as cretin who put a big shovel lime in the possibility to arise a part of the genre that offer some type of substance within the American market, many people bet it would be just another one to make sunny the world duty wankers. Many years later, in his ninth album in a career as erratic as lying in artistic terms, that girl with air dirty travesty ofWhen it appeared in 1999 singing a pop as cretin who put a big shovel lime in the possibility to arise a part of the genre that offer some type of substance within the American market, many people bet it would be just another one to make sunny the world duty wankers. Many years later, in his ninth album in a career as erratic as lying in artistic terms, that girl with air dirty travesty of innocence is gone, but his quest for maturity ran into a bad repertoire as those of yore.

    Yes, Britney Spears reappeared trying to show a maturing as artificial as a vase full of plastic flowers.

    The whole thing starts by its cover, which appears as a version of "chic haired scarecrow" of Jennifer Lopez. When the first track, "Invitation", starts playing, can you draw that Britney calls for his hypothetical maturity trying to emulate that introspective / electronic side that Beyonce and many others show some time in their jobs, far more interesting and genuine way, tell by the way. It is a bad sign of what's next? No doubt about it ...

    "Make Me ..." brings the participation of rapper G-Eazy - well, he calls himself this way, but no more than a white boy lying - which adds absolutely nothing to this pathetic song whose melodic and harmonic sequence has been heard in dozens of other songs within the same harvest pop
    In "Private Show" and "Man on the Moon," Britney sings like a Gweni Stefani flu. His voice is so 'robotics' because of the numerous tuning software that have the impression that she is twelve metal balls stuck in the throat. The song itself is a silly with light touches of soul, in which bet on simplicity with the use of few instruments and a half timbragem 'vintage' to disguise the total emptiness of the letter and the very ... er ... 'interpretation' of girl. If she thought she could pass the maturity print, spent ridiculous.
    "Just Luv Me" can be described as "cheap perfume advertising music sung by a slapper working on a phone sex pretending to be a 16 year old girl," a simply disgusting thing in terms of pop falsehood. In "Clumsy" she tries to imitate the timbre of the English singer Duffy in a song with timbragem "Eurodance" so abominable that makes you want to throw up a purple-green goo. She returns to do the same in "What You Need", with less compelling results, since the song has a retro air with a strong British influence and serves almost as a balm for the remaining aberrations festival. Even worse is when it gets to sing like Kylie Minogue in a crap titled "Do You Wanna Come Over," weaker than Nescau diluted in the water tank of a building.
    But nothing beats the mix of r & b plastic, bossa nova and reggae "Slumber Party", one of the most gruesome songs that emerged in this galaxy in the last three million years. With a completely wrong arrangement, letterheads instruments by a deaf marmot and a letter apparently composed of a retarded teenager who just discovered masturbation, is one of those bombs that even someone just clueless as Britney could record. Other Babylonian crap are "Love Me Down," an R & B with Jamaican pinches that makes the No Doubt sound like Led Zeppelin and "Just Like Me", which even begins with a guitar rustic and interesting sound, but that empties in other electronic pop very weak.

    Glory just have a moment of salvation: "Hard to Forget Ya". It is hidden at the end of the album - is the penultimate track standard edition - and has everything a good cançãopop have to have, that is, has a strong chorus, weight, a line of vocal choice, tense and almost aggressive, alternating with a softness placed in the right dose. Too bad she in no way served as a reference for the remaining disk.

    With a production that could not be pasteurized in times pseudocantoras trying to portray "mature artists" - in which case it is a totally unfunny joke - Glory is another terrible chapter in the artistic farce that Britney Spears always was.    … Expand
  19. sergiolealmbc
    Sep 1, 2016
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Britney needs to focus more on his voice, there is still a lot to improve. A good pop album is one that combines good hits with good vocal extension...… Expand
  20. jevoo
    Oct 25, 2016
    0
    is that robot or anything else? why she used too much auto tune? she is still obessesd with her 20's these songs are typical pop songs this album is nothing just nothing
  21. Hinaria
    Sep 6, 2016
    1
    Nada de novo ... mais do mesmo !
    Músicas genéricas... batidas fracas, composições muito fracas !
    Voz ... bem a voz não é nenhuma surpresa... não podemos nem classifica-la como cantora!
    Com esse álbum concluímos que a princesinha só se mantem na mídia pelo buzz da indústria ... tendo em vista ela ser um produto montado por ela mesma !!!
  22. MiguelVictor
    Aug 31, 2016
    0
    Even though it's not "the album of the year", this record shows us an unusual Britney, who's still better than we have seen at her last albums. She's still trying.
  23. LouisJossie
    Oct 19, 2016
    0
    The worst album. Definitivo Britney se quedo estancada en el fracaso que venia arrastrando desde Femme Fatale, Britney Jean es mejor si comparas con Glory, demasiado autotune. Nada justificable su fracaso en los chart! My score: 0
  24. sixinch
    Aug 30, 2016
    1
    One of the worst albums of the year thus far. It shows absolutely no artistic growth, the lyrics are elementary, and the vocals are non-existent. All in all, a terrible album. Collapse
  25. luizknolws
    Sep 5, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Nada de novo ... mais do mesmo !
    Músicas genéricas... batidas fracas, composições muito fracas !
    Voz ... bem a voz não é nenhuma surpresa... não podemos nem classifica-la como cantora!
    Com esse álbum concluímos que a princesinha só se mantem na mídia pelo buzz da indústria ... tendo em vista ela ser um produto montado por ela mesma !!!    … Expand
  26. Robcollarino
    Aug 26, 2016
    0
    I used to like Britney's songs, but her most recent songs are really bad. Her fans love to say that she sold millions, but this what she is: an artist that make pop music and people buy pop music. There is no soul on this album, there is nothing special. It's time to be only a Vegas artists
  27. T-Swizz
    Aug 27, 2016
    0
    One of the worst albums of the year thus far. It shows absolutely no artistic growth, the lyrics are elementary, and the vocals are non-existent. All in all, a terrible album.
  28. JCarlosHudson
    Aug 28, 2016
    0
    This is a 2015 Revival remake. Her autotuned voice don't even sound like hers... even her jeans are beter than her ""glory"". "The best of the worst" is Change your mind (No seas flop).
  29. thebassline
    Aug 28, 2016
    3
    Glory, the ninth studio outing from pop icon Britney Spears, does exactly the opposite of what the title of the album suggests. Trying to reclaim her former glory, it's evident the now 34 year old Spears wants to return to a prominence, the likes of which she hasn't experienced since her late 90s genesis; don't lie, "...Baby One More Time" was your jam, too. You wouldn't be entirely wrongGlory, the ninth studio outing from pop icon Britney Spears, does exactly the opposite of what the title of the album suggests. Trying to reclaim her former glory, it's evident the now 34 year old Spears wants to return to a prominence, the likes of which she hasn't experienced since her late 90s genesis; don't lie, "...Baby One More Time" was your jam, too. You wouldn't be entirely wrong to say I hold a certain bias towards modern Britney Spears discography, seeing as "...Baby One More Time" was in fact a childhood favorite of mine, but I genuinely find this album to pale in comparison to Spears' earliest work, and all the nostalgia in the world would not make me deviate from that position.

    Lead off single "Make Me" (which features Oakland rapper G-Eazy) is not only the worst track on Glory, it also gives last year's standalone Iggy Azalea single "Pretty Girls" a run for its money as the worst single of Spears' career. Admittedly, Spears sounds a tad more inspired here than she did on 2013's Britney Jean, but she still sounds disconnected by miles. G-Eazy's presence creates a bit of saving grace, but the track in the sum of its parts, is forgettable. When I heard it on the radio for the first time, it wasn't until my local radio station's DJ revealed it was the new Britney Spears track. Moreover, "Make Me" is very much in line with the R&B infused pop you hear on mainstream radio here in 2016.

    "Private Show" and "Invitation" are just plain annoying. The synths and bass lines coated throughout aren't the problem. The problem is Spears' vocals. Even if they weren't drowned with autotune, I'd still find her vocals as annoying as they are presented this way. "Man on the Moon" is a decent enough track; probably the best on the album. Spears sounds a lot more in control on this track, more so in fact than she has in years. But then "Just Luv Me" comes in as if it were ripped from a Skrillex project and while it's far from terrible, this track too is downright forgettable.

    Unlike the title of this album, "Clumsy" is exactly what the title suggests. The synths are sloppy and and the bassline is as annoying as Spears' vocals. "Do You Wanna Come Over" is a solid enough track. Trying to get the album back on track, Spears approaches it with a level of seduction you'd find scrawled all across Justin Bieber's Purpose. Tracks like "What You Need" and "If I'm Dancing" are sloppy and poor attempts to close out the album on a strong note. Truly an ironically titled album, Glory closes with little of that to show for it.

    I certainly don't blame Britney Spears for attempting to reclaim her place as a pop radio heavyweight. If anything, my 5-year old self is crying on the inside; seeing a childhood favorite make a comeback, however, doesn't come without a certain level of bias that is, in fact, derived from nostalgia. Moreover, I don't think Spears will ever top 1999's ...Baby One More Time. Nevertheless, expect the album to sell well, expect almost every single she releases from Glory to nearly reach the summit of the Billboard Hot 100. But the summit Spears reached at the turn of the millennium is something I personally don't think the now iconic pop singer is capable of attaining again.    … Expand
  30. Miguel1300
    Nov 16, 2019
    0
    same generic sound. can she come up with something else? or is this all she can do?
  31. valegol
    Jul 6, 2018
    0
    No thank you. Uninspired. Annoying. Unoriginal and most of all, unnecessary.
  32. pauldiam
    Jun 21, 2018
    1
    Horrible fake music with no emotions and concept. It's a shame that a 'singer' who's been in the industry for so long cannot record a true and honest album with real vocals and emotions. This is noise and the public didn't bother, as it seems. I gave 1 instead of 0 because i feel sorry for her, she sounds as if she's lost.
  33. drealmckoi
    Jul 3, 2018
    0
    Mediocre album. No improvement and progress as an artist. This album completely describes her career: on the decline. Sorry Britney, it’s a big NO from me.
  34. HirroHernan
    Jul 2, 2018
    0
    regrettable, unfortunate, sorry, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, depressing, dismaying, upsetting, saddening;
  35. figoyhoney
    Jul 2, 2018
    0
    This album lacks emotion or good vocals..she uses autotone the whole time its not a good sound and its boring too.
  36. evildevil17
    Jul 3, 2018
    0
    Britney tried to act mature on "Glory" but she should stick to dance bangers. Quite possibly the worst album of 2016.
  37. Kanito2804
    Jul 3, 2018
    0
    Monótono, cero reinvención, música plástica y sin contenido, el disco es HORRIBLE!
  38. MrFrench
    Aug 4, 2019
    3
    I wanted to like this album, but I cannot. There are a few songs I like such as "Make Me..." and "Man on the Moon," but the rest I cannot tolerate.
  39. Andi16ID
    Dec 10, 2020
    0
    The album features distinct materials which showcase Britney Spears' vocals in the best way possible. She might not write every single song in this album, but every song has special connection to her in a magical way. It can be heard though her not-so-over-processed vocals. Oops! She did it again.

    Edit: I changed my mind. The album aged like a milk
  40. Hotnicks
    Jul 16, 2018
    0
    Britney fans (not all)... this one's for you! Glory is a Britney album.. nothing much expected. Nothing much received.
  41. JohnXtina
    Jul 2, 2018
    0
    This album is nothing different with her previous releases. Basic production.
  42. mykelmeras
    Jul 2, 2018
    0
    Same old Britney Spears. She's 40 years old but still singing to this type of song.
  43. Therealmarkso
    Jul 3, 2018
    1
    I only like 1 track. Man on the moon. The rest is mediocre. Too much autotune.
  44. ElasticDion
    Nov 16, 2019
    0
    This album is as bland as the rest of Britney's discography. Not a single song stands out
  45. abrahamger96
    Aug 29, 2020
    0
    No me gusto para nada este álbum, esta lleno de relleno, no buenas letras no música bailable Esta lleno de Flop
  46. AlejandroR
    Jul 25, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Asco con esta vieja loca. Lo bueno es que ya no tiene éxito y nadie se acuerda de ella… Expand

Awards & Rankings

3
#3 Most Discussed Album of 2016
12
#12 Most Shared Album of 2016

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71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. The Independent (UK)
    Sep 1, 2016
    60
    Although it marks no significant shift in style--she’s still mining the same pop-R&B seam--it’s undoubtedly a better effort than its predecessor.
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  2. musicOMH.com
    Sep 1, 2016
    60
    Like Britney herself, Glory is a fascinating if flawed listen--while she remains very much a singles artist, this is her most successful record in a while, and still contains glimpses of why she remains so compelling, 18 years into her career.
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  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    Sep 1, 2016
    60
    Glory is no masterpiece, but it’s a marked improvement on 2013’s ‘Britney Jean’, a messy attempt to merge thumping EDM tunes with supposedly reflective midtempo songs.
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