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Celeb News: Britney Jean: 50 @ Metacritic
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Telegraph gave rated it suprisingly high for amount of dragging in their review  |
They dragged her not the music. It's always like that
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Telegraph rated it suprisingly high for amount of dragging in their review |
Ya, that's odd. It certainly wasn't a positive review in anyway.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...ustice-2853805
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In the 90s Britney underwent knee surgery which presumably ached for quite some time. She hasn’t discussed this ache in any detail, so this song is therefore extremely personal. (It also packs in some excellent rave piano.)
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They dragged her not the music. It's always like that |
Not the music?
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The lyrics are banal to the point of indifference...
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That's not great for your "personal" album.
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Praising the best two songs on the album  ; till it's gone and dont cry.
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BILLBOARD - BRITNEY JEAN REVIEW
On the eve of her 32nd birthday, Britney Spears is at a pleasant point in her career, and has little left to prove in the recording studio, or anywhere else. 2011's "Femme Fatale," a collection of kinetic synth-pop largely helmed by Max Martin and Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, was the first album that was effectively removed from the high-profile period of personal struggles that checkered Spears' career in the late 00's, and hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart thanks to pristinely crafted pop songs like "Hold It Against Me" and "Til The World Ends." The flurry of hits from "Femme Fatale" was paired with a relatively controversy-free run for Spears, who put on a successful tour behind "Femme Fatale," became a judge on "The X Factor," helped Will.i.am score a Top 5 hit with "Scream & Shout" and danced with her two sons in the music video for "Ooh La La," a song recorded for "The Smurfs 2" soundtrack. "Britney Jean," her eighth studio effort, was announced concurrently with the singer's two-year-long "Britney Spears: Piece of Me" residency at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas; while the reveal did not exactly make a new album seem incidental, it's been made clear that, new hits or no, the "…Baby One More Time" auteur is going to endure.
Spears has referred to "Britney Jean" as her "most personal record yet," but the pop superstar's latest is more of an experiment than an autobiography. Martin and Dr. Luke are largely gone, and in their stead is executive producer Will.i.am, who contributed "Big Fat Bass" to "Femme Fatale" and whose pop production discography is underrated as a conglomerate (listen to Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry," Ke$ha's "Crazy Kids" and Estelle's "American Boy" for further proof). Although Will.i.am takes most of his cues from "Scream & Shout" and concocts elastic dance numbers like the David Guetta-assisted scorcher "Body Ache" and the bleating electronics showcase "Til It's Gone," there's also "Perfume," which admits to some cracks of jealousy in Spears' unflappable exterior, and "Alien," which harnesses William Orbit's contemplative rhythms and lets the superstar muse about where she really belongs. There's a duet between Britney and her sister, Jamie Lynn, that contains one of the strangest post-chorus transitions in recent memory, and while first single "Work Bitch" is a dance track, it's also a dazzlingly weird one, eschewing the sing-along hooks of "Hold It Against Me" for profanity, pogoing tempos and British accents.
Spears' eighth album is a transitional record, just like her third album. But whereas 2001's "Britney" found Spears -- no longer a girl, but not yet a woman -- feeling her way toward adulthood and the candid sexuality of club life, "Britney Jean," her first album released in her thirties, is a subtle shift away from frantic bangers and into more forthright songwriting. Perhaps that displacement will steer Spears toward the pop-rock world: "Passenger," "Britney Jean's" second-half standout, finds the singer ruminating on romantic trust while delivering an empowering vocal performance over Diplo's guitar-driven production. It's a song that requires a mature point of view, and might just be a harbinger of what's to come.
Which songs on "Britney Jean" are stand-outs? Check out Billboard's track-by-track review of Britney Spears' latest full-length.
1. Alien - William Orbit's co-production on the album opener is austere but isolating, as Spears travels across the cosmos to find some comfort in a barren universe. "The stars in the sky/Look like home, take me home," she coos before concluding that she is, thankfully, no longer alone.
2. Work Bitch - The effervescent "Work Bitch" allows Spears to assume the identity of a headmistress who recognizes that work (bitch) is the best way to secure both a hot body and a Bugatti. The bass drop at the 45-second mark is still worthy of provoking one to call the police, the governor, and his or her local radio station on its own.
3. Perfume - Sia's co-writing work is evident on this mid-tempo ballad, in which Spears cops to some insecurities and attempts to "mark my territory" with some well-sprayed perfume. The production sashays forward as Spears nicely alternates between breathy confessionals and forceful declarations of doubt.
4. It Should Be Easy feat. Will.i.am - "You bring me zen, yes, you bring me zen/You make me feel like a million, billion," Spears' robotized voice states in this return to the dance floor. David Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort, Nicky Romero, Marcus van Wattum and Will.i.am all had a hand in this surprisingly heartfelt duet, on which synth fireballs bookend the tiptoeing keyboard line.
5. Tik Tik Boom feat. T.I. - Spears is trapped in a "Tron"-like environment but remains extremely direct in her sexual prowess on "Tik Tik Boom." As complex beats crawl like spiders across the track, T.I. sounds raw and wicked atop the neon glow of the production.
6. Body Ache - Another Guetta/Will.i.am hydra that sounds massive from the jump. The dense ping-pong snaps from "Scream & Shout" multiply until the arrangement becomes too busy, but the production finally simplifies itself for Spears' chorus cry, "I want to dance till my body ache/Show you how I want ya" chorus. "Body Ache" never really explodes, but at least it simmers.
7. Til It's Gone - The red herring piano intro morphs into one of the most intense dance tracks of Spears' career, with racing electronics in the vein of Daft Punk's "Contact" and a final minute full of hold-up-your-lighter moments. The track powers down before surging back to life under Spears' command.
8. Passenger - Co-written by Katy Perry and produced by Diplo, "Passenger" noodles around with some EDM impulses before imploding into brooding pop-rock. Spears does her part by delivering resonant melismas and lyrics about giving your inhibitions over to another: "I'll let you the lead the way now, cuz I want you to take the wheel/I've never been a passenger/Though, I never knew how good it would feel," she confesses. Vulnerable and vibrant.
9. Chillin' With You feat. Jamie Lynn - "I drank some red wine and now I'm walking on the sky…," Spears sings, grasping at happiness over lush synth-pop before her younger sis steps onto the scene. Jamie Lynn offers a twangy yang to Brit's yin, but "Chillin' With You" is a mishmash of ideas that cannot stylize its odd arrangement.
10. Don't Cry - The Spaghetti Western-esque whistle opening segues into a crackling break-up coda, as Spears offers her "last goodbye" while the percussion stomps the album to a close. "Don't Cry" almost plays out like a winking "To Be Continued…" card, closing out the standard edition of "Britney Jean" on a speculative note.
RATING: 76/100
Read more at http://www.billboard.com/articles/re...GxyAAz0Q0qp.99
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This will pull off a Circus kinda score
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I'm happy with Rolling Stone's score. I thought they would tear her apart.
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Even though we're in the middle of a pop-princess pileup this winter, with Miley, Katy, Gaga and more elbowing for room on the dance floor, Britney remains the queen who out-bangs, out-booms, out-bizarres them all.
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I can see this scoring high 60s. Above 65 for sure.
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Slant Magazine They dragged
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SLANT MAGAZINE REVIEW:
Britney Jean is the first Britney Spears album in which the singer is credited as a co-writer on every track (to put it in perspective, her songwriting credits on her last three efforts combined can be counted on one hand). That fact, coupled with the album's ostensibly personal title, suggests that Britney might be vying for some kind of artistic credibility. Alas, it's more likely that she's finally decided to grab a chunk of those lucrative publishing royalties for herself.
Designed by committee, with up to six producers and nine songwriters per track, Britney Jean is stocked with a mix of harsh EDM a la "Scream & Shout" and flaccid midtempo pop. The hideous filtered synths featured throughout the album (courtesy of producers like will.i.am and, naturally, David Guetta) are most forgivable on the catchy "Til It's Gone," which is as close as Britney Jean gets to Eurotrash earworms like Femme Fatale's "Till the World Ends" and "Hold It Against Me." Lead single "Work Bitch," on the other hand, is the aural equivalent of bath salts, a shrill and mechanical assault on the brain, while "Tik Tik Boom" is by far Britney Jean and company's most egregious lapse in judgment; it's the latest in a string of female pop singers venturing into trap-lite, with T.I. offering tripe like "She like the way I eat her/Beat her, beat her/Treat her like an animal, somebody call PETA." Uh, somebody call Tip's probation officer.
Despite the absence of longtime producer Max Martin and his associates, the album is a surprisingly retrograde affair, with midtempo tracks marred by dated production and vocals that hark back to the days when Brit was selling 10 million. Over the years, she's smartly stretched her limited talents by using softer tones or exaggerating her signature tics, but on songs like "Perfume," Britney sounds like she's got a frog caught in her throat. And despite copious (mis)use of Auto-Tune throughout the album, apparently no one thought to employ it for its intended purpose of pitch correction. But even the most gifted performer couldn't save a song as ineptly composed as the icky "Perfume." (Perhaps the über-talented Sia, who co-wrote the tune, was simply taking the piss?)
Unlike the closing track "Don't Cry," where the Auto-Tune sounds like it was inadvertently turned up just a notch too high, a generous helping of vocal processing actually makes thematic sense on the plush, William Orbit-helmed opener, "Alien," conveying a sense of despondency and loneliness echoed in the song's lyrics. Along with the Diplo-produced "Passenger," it's one of the few moments on Britney Jean that even make an attempt to push Britney's sound forward.
RATING: 2.5/5
50/100 on MetaCritic
http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/r...s-britney-jean
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Now here's a thread where I won't be seen after this. Blackout (this being her 2nd lowest rated, WTF) and In The Zone are ranked lower than the likes of Femme Fatale, so I really don't give a damn about these reviewers, as they usually rate ANYTHING but the actual quality of the music, so I'm out.
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UPDATED: 73/100 (BASED ON 5 REVIEWS)
I'll be happy with anything over 60, 63 to be exact 
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DG1 is really fast 
Google alert, I guess
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