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Originally posted by Rolling Stone
Britney Spears is pop music's stealth avant-gardist. She's an adventuress. When she was entering her darkest period in terms of her personal life, while much of the world was writing her off as a joke, she was also releasing the most innovative music, going for distorto-rama robot-disco propulsion and alienated synth-gloom ambience. It’s funny how people underrate Brit’s impact on the way music sounds now, just because her personality gets in the way, but if you listen to an hour of pop radio today, you’ll hear an hour of people trying to top Blackout, the most influential pop album of the past five years.
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Originally posted by Pitchfork
Just when 2011 seemed like it would birth more of the same old, watered-down dance-pop, Britney Spears, brings current trends to their knees. In her new single, “Hold It Against Me,” Spears has brought the underground dubstep genre into the mainstream. While it is indeed too early to tell what may happen next, I predict that dubstep will increasingly be incorporated into new pop hits. Britney’s new song is the first true mainstream dubstep track. “Hold It Against Me” would probably be classified as pop-dubstep and I wouldn’t be surprised if that term becomes ubiquitous. It also may be wishful thinking to believe that one song can change the sound of pop music, but it’s been done before by Britney herself. More than any other single artist, Spears was the driving force behind the return of teen pop in the late '90s. “Toxic” is still widely credited for starting the dance-pop craze in the 2000s (although nothing truly captured the exact sound of that monster tune.) Britney has been known to go against the grain and be experimental — Blackout for instance. It introduced an influx of electro pop into the modern market, providing the blueprint for various smash hits. Despite some negative popular opinion surrounding her, credit must be given where it is due. Britney could very well start the pop-dubstep genre. Dubstep is the next logical step for pop’s transformation. It may become the sound of 2011 and beyond.
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