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Is "Work Bitch" getting good reviews? Whyyyyyy?
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IDOLATOR: At Idolator, the editors share a passion for high quality pop music. Occasionally, our tastes align completely. Other times… not so much! So, in the spirit of debate, we’ve developed a feature called Pop Perspective. Basically, all four of us dissect a particularly noteworthy pop event, and give it a rating out of 10.
That way you’re getting a full spectrum of views and we can all vent. (It’s cheaper than therapy!) The latest pop milestone to be dragged under the Idolator microscope is Britney Spears‘ instructional new single “Work Bitch”. Is it another era-defining pop anthem like “Toxic” or an unholy mess like “Scream And Shout”?
Head below to see what we all have to say!
Robbie Daw — 2/10
RuPaul‘s iconic “Supermodel (You Better Work)” is a glittering slice of early ’90s house, brazen pop and in-your-face attitudinal drag queen sassery that, in spite of operating on those particular levels, manages to be play to the mainstream.
Its place in pop culture history cannot be denied and, despite really only eking out this one noteworthy Hot 100 chart hit, Ru still has managed to become a longstanding, beloved figure across the world. On the other hand, Britney’s limp, tuneless “Work Bitch” — well, that just sucks. She’s far better than this.
Mike Wass — 5/10
Britney always reminds me of the awkward girl at the school talent show who gets a standing ovation because people don’t want to hurt her feelings. That’s the only explanation I have for the generally positive reviews of “Work Bitch”, particularly when her own fans seem wholly underwhelmed (see its current iTunes position).
It just feels like we’ve heard this before. Brit has been dropping “bitch” in songs since the far superior “Gimme More” and already messed around with embarrassing accents on “Scream And Shout”. One of the main reasons the 31-year-old has remained on top since the ’90s is her ability to switch things up — jumping from bubblegum pop to R&B, before bringing electro to the masses with Blackout. So this laziness is out of character.
“Work Bitch” is dumb fun and will soundtrack a million drag shows but I want the other Britney back. Especially now when Miley Cyrus appears to have snatched her wig as America’s messed-up sweetheart.
Carl Williott — 8/10
Thank GAWD we got the real Britney and not some Brit-borg programmed by will.i.am. Spears goes through a Minaj-like amount of accents, but they all convey a swagger and silliness that only Brit can pull off.
Another thing about her voice: I’m thinking Charli XCX‘s inflection has rubbed off on Brit (bringing things full circle, since Spears’ early coo is clearly a reference point for Charli). When she sings “Spread the word, spread the word” as well as the backing vox on the “higher and higher” bridge, I hear Charli’s sneering, nasally reach for the rafters, recalling the refrain of “Glow”.
I just wish the song was more melodic, as I’m tiring of jacked up electro’s takeover of pop. In terms of dance floor heft, though, this “Greyhound”-lite track absolutely kicks “Applause”‘s ass. So at least Britney is sending off the poptronica fad in style.
IDOLATOR SCORE: 15/30
http://idolator.com/7485410/pop-pers...ars-work-bitch
Washington Post:
But is it good? It’s profoundly meh, with Spears reanimating her burnout baby-talk over a freeze dried club beat that isn’t lively enough to grate. It’s the kind of song that inflames the most cynical cockles of the human heart, a throbbing four-minute reminder that there will be no escape from this parasitic digital mediascape where brand name artists demand conversation despite their spiraling musical irrelevance. Life’s a b – - – -.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ut-is-it-good/[/QUOTE]
Britney Spears Is a Cruel, Faux-British Taskmaster on Wack 'Work Bitch'
Will.i.am collaboration leaks a day early, isn't anything to 'Scream & Shout' about
It's Britney, bitch, all right, but not at her best. Britney Spears has sprinkled a breadcrumb trail of reasons to hope for greatness from her next album: a hint it might be a sequel to 2007's underrated Blackout, a promise of "my most personal album ever," and reports she was working with William Orbit, Charli XCX, Hit-Boy, Sia, and other skilled hitmakers. Unfortunately, the reality of the music she has released in the past 12 months — The Smurfs 2's bland "Ooh La La," Will.i.am's airless "Scream & Shout" — hasn't yet lived up to those hopes.
"Work Bitch," the first taste of Spears' upcoming LP, will be another disappointment to those who like their Britney dark and weird — or at least infectiously celebratory, as on 2011's zeitgest-seizing "Till the World Ends." Will.i.am, former Swedish House Mafia member Sebastian Ingrosso, and a whole host of others worked on the song, and although pop-by-committee can certainly point to its share of successes, this one is just more rote club-pop, hardly "personal" or inventive. The lyrics come across like a sadomasochistic fitness club instructor or a pop-savvy recitation of rugged individualist propaganda: "You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti? You want a Maserati? You better work bitch!" There's none of the sly consumer-culture critique of Lorde's "Royals."
It'd be wrong to call the track totally personality-less, because Spears does sneak in some off-kilter tics, including a return to her "Scream & Shout" British accent. But though it smacks of the effort of an entire corporation, "Work Bitch" could still use some more work. (Let's all pause and give thanks they didn't title it "Twerk Bitch.")
The song leaked over the weekend, so Spears' team shared it early, foiling an online countdown; stream it below.
http://www.spin.com/articles/britney...-bitch-stream/
SLANT: Britney Spears has dropped her new single, "Work Bitch," a day early after the track leaked online over the weekend. Co-written and produced by will.i.am, the song finds the singer vamping in the same faux-continental accent she dubiously employed on the pair's recent Top 5 hit "Scream & Shout"—or is it just a ghastly attempt at British? "Work Bitch" follows the current EDM model of painfully aggressive, treble-heavy beats, harsh synths, and tuneless hooks, but makes even "Scream & Shout" sound like a melodic feast. At its best, that song plays like an homage to dance music's recent past, with nods to Underworld's "Born Slippy" and even Spears's own "Gimme More"; "Work Bitch," on the other hand, seems to aspire to classic bitch-queen anthems, but Spears's repeated instructions to "work, work, work" (to achieve "a hot body" and a Bugatti, natch) feel mechanical and forced. But that's no surprise coming from a pop icon whose longevity is largely due to her unwavering dedication to churning out maddeningly mindless and infectious tripe like "Work Bitch."
http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2...ars-work-bitch
, the katy stans thinking she would be the one 
