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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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Britney Jean continues the roll she's been on in recent years – her 2007 glitch-disco manifesto, Blackout, is one of the most influential albums in modern pop, and 2008's Circus and 2011's Femme Fatale are in the same league.
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Britney Jean adds up the high price of stardom. It's a concept album about the loneliness of pop life
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Katy Perry co-wrote the ace power ballad "Passenger," which comes on like Brit's answer to Beyoncé's "Halo," as she emotes about finding someone to take the wheel and drive her home.
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Spears' "Telephone" Beats Lady Gaga's By a Robo-Mile
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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.
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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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Blackout may be the most influential pop album of the past five years.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-mile-20100506
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