Blackout recently missed
SPIN's best albums of the last 30 years, despite being called the most influential album of the last decade by ATRL.
Is it overpraised on ATRL because of her stan at Rolling Stone?
His review of Britney Jean:
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Britney's back in the game, brushing all the riffraff away from her pop throne. 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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Him giving BEYONCE the same score as Britney Jean (he just couldn't bring himself to give it a higher score)
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/al...yonce-20131214
His review of Britney's Telephone:
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Britney Phone Home: Why Spears' "Telephone" Beats Lady Gaga's By a Robo-Mile
Britney uses Auto-Tune the way Bob Dylan used his harmonica — for punctuation, for atmosphere, for an alienatingly weird sound effect. It's a blast of vocal distortion, harsh on the surface, but expressive, capable of sounding wildly funny or abrasively pissed-off or seductive. In "Telephone," as in "Piece of Me," the Auto-Tune does for her voice what the harmonica does for Dylan's in "It Ain't Me, Babe" — a way of telling the world to keep its hands off you.
Since Britney is the perfect pop star, and songs about telephones are always excellent, it's a just plain mathematical fact that Britney's "Telephone" is a perfect pop song, and the world is an infinitely better place because it exists.
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His review of the Artpop tour:
His best songs of 2013 list:
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11. Britney Spears, "Work Bitch"
This bitch-perfect tinsel-disco blast is what, Britney's 119th comeback hit? For Britney, it's the non-comeback hits that are rarities. She never gets credit and I can't imagine that bugs her much, but can you name another musician born in the 1980s who has this many good songs? You probably can (I can) but there's a hell of a lot who don't. See you in Vegas.
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His 2010 thoughts on Blackout
Has her stan on Rolling Stone's staff led ATRLers to believe it's more acclaimed and important than it really is?