Browsed Top 40 for most popular sounds. Saw Selena Gomez and Bieber slaying radio, hopped on.
Browsed Top 40 for most popular rapper willing to feature on her lead (Drake would never even look at her). Saw G-Eazy, popular but C-list enough to collab with her, hopped on
Booked VMAs for her “big iconic return ” after 10 years
Spammed social media with and magazine covers with her “sexay new boday!!” and booked promo promo after promo, hoping it will all culminate with a Superbowl headlining gig
The dream: "I'm going to have the hottest, most popular pop album and comeback of the year. She’s back, and so is her body and the hits!” Goes dancing around the room.
The reality: album disappears off the charts after 3 weeks, majority of public unaware it happened. Gurney heads back to waste away as a casino act.
I was surprised to see the mixed reception for this one... and then I wasn't.
Further proof of a deep generational chasm that divides ATRL into two camps; the twentysomething pop sophisticates with 15 to 20 years of top-shelf pop consumption to their name, and an unruly kid crew with Scream Queens avatars and tributes to Nick Jonas in their signatures. It's not that the latter generation is a lost cause entirely, but they've clearly never heard a "Britney" — that is, they've never encountered a voice quite as distinctive as Britney's. "But I know Britney! Circus was the first album I bought!" First off, ask for a refund. And no, you don't know Britney, you know a very stilted and subdued version of the iconic performer.
The Britney of "Private Show" is Britney as Britney is intended to sound. She very skillfully vacillates between a range of tones; she nasally, then guttural, then grainy, then nasally again, then delicate. (And yes, that's how she's supposed to do it.) She's sultry. She's goofy. She's sounds slightly absurd. She's fully engaged. She's expressive in ways that "technically superior" vocalists just aren't. She is brilliant. You have no idea how brilliant she is.
This is the probably purest attempt Britney has made to harness some of that ineffable charm that made her early work so irresistible. I adore it.
When everyone discovers "Too Young" by Dagny. Whew. It's as magical as "Teenage Dream". Lowkey decimates the entirety of 198Decline and E•MO•TION. It's produced by Mattman & Robin as well.
” after 10 years 
@ how delusional some posters of this thread are 
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