A) Your fave is in control of their own career.
B) Your fave is still reaching new heights, whether it be in stats, starpower or acclaim.
C) Your fave is not dead.
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.
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.
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.
Learn to search someone's post history. I ain't got time for ugly tran-tran's.
Speaking of fugly MTFs, that man in OITNB who looks like Beysic is heavily bleaching his skin. It looks like he's getting the same craters Beysic has all over her face.
rob sheffield @robsheff 17 May 2013
it's not a real Beyonce pregnancy until she uses it to sabotage an MTV "Lifetime Achievement Award" montage for Britney Spears.
NOooooo how is this guy allowed to review music at Rolling Stone
