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Discussion: ATRL's very own Metacritic - Blackout
Member Since: 4/6/2011
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Omg ya'll are trashing Femme Fatale like no other.
It's a great album.
Lemme review it soon!
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Member Since: 3/2/2008
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87/100
Key Tracks
1. Criminal
2. Gasoline
3. How I Roll
Femme Fatale is Britney Spears' seventh album. I am a casual fan of Britney, and have enjoyed many of her singles. However, her only album I've ever purchased, besides the Greatest Hits: My Prerogative compilation, was In the Zone. I felt she was never able to match that masterpiece of an album. That is until I heard this fantastic album. It doesn't quite reach In the Zone's level, but it's the closest I've felt she has gotten to since then. The album starts off strong with the club banger, "Till the World Ends," which will have you on your feet moving to the beat in no time at all. The album continues with the rave influenced club jam, "Hold It Against Me," the album's lead single. It continues with the fan favorite "Inside Out." This song is a bit overrated to me. It's nice, but not the holy grail like everyone claims. "I Wanna Go" is next, and this song is one hot jam! The stuttering and whistling makes this gem beyond catchy. But then, just when you think the album couldn't get any better, "How I Roll" pops up. This song is so quirky, but fun. I love every second of it. Highly underrated. The album then turns into its low point with tracks six through ten. "(Drop Dead) Beautiful" is great, but let's face it, after a while it does get a bit old. "Seal It with a Kiss" is next. It's decent enough, but nothing memorable. Then comes the album's gigantic dud. "Big Fat Bass" is not good at all. The bass may be getting bigger, but the volume on my iPod is getting lower. The next two songs, "Trouble for Me" and "Trip to Your Heart" blend together to create one boring song. They're both generic dance pop songs that could have easily been replaced with some of the album's leftovers. However, the album goes to redeem itself with the final two tracks. "Gasoline" throws us back to the time of In the Zone, when Britney smashed hard with the single, "Toxic." "Gasoline" may as well be "Toxic"'s older cousin. It's so incredibly hot and the biggest earworm on the album. The album ends at its highest point with the final single, "Criminal." This song is beyond amazing. It's entirely different from the rest of the album, though, but this only makes it stick out even more. While you have been dancing nearly non-stop for the past 40 minutes, "Criminal" comes in and sweeps you off your feet with it's beautiful pan flute and lovely lyrics. It's a nice wrap up for the album. Overall, I'd list it as Britney's second best album behind In the Zone, and it is the perfect choice for dance music fans. Pick up your copy of Femme Fatale today!
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Member Since: 8/29/2011
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Originally posted by zombaland
Omg ya'll are trashing Femme Fatale like no other.
It's a great album.
Lemme review it soon!
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Right?!
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Member Since: 11/11/2009
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Originally posted by zombaland
Omg ya'll are trashing Femme Fatale like no other.
It's a great album.
Lemme review it soon!
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like i said in my review.
"Femme Fatale" doesn't pretend to be something that it's not like the other albums recently release. it gets straight to the point.
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Member Since: 3/9/2011
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100/100 - Femme Fatale
As a casual fan I must say it's enjoyable if you like fun pop hits. The best tracks are HIAM, TTWE, and IWG. The tracks are consistent, however there are a few generic tracks the album could do with out such as BFB, Trouble For Me, and Up & Down. Vocally it's lifeless due to all the layers and auto tune on Britney's voice, even HATLM has been ruined and pitched. I'm not against it, but they didn't have to drown her vocals completely. The bright side is that they did a good job making her voice sound less robotic in HIAM, IWG, and Criminal. The album overall is decent, I wish Brit's label let her go with her plan instead of scrapping her work and going with this Dr Luke creation. But this is what we got, even though it isn't bad It would be better to let Britney have full control over her music. It seems to be that whenever Britney has control over her music, everything comes out better. Look at In The Zone & Blackout that are perfect examples.
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Member Since: 11/11/2009
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Originally posted by B94
80/100 - Femme Fatale
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provide a real review, sis!
or it won't count!
you need 5-10 sentences explaining the album.
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Member Since: 3/9/2011
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Originally posted by Cahleb
provide a real review, sis!
or it won't count!
you need 5-10 sentences explaining the album.
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Done.
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Member Since: 4/17/2011
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Album: Britney Spears- Femme Fatale
Score: 80/100
Standout Tracks: Inside Out, How I Roll, and Seal It With A Kiss
‘Femme Fatale’ is a fun, electronically-fueled dance record made strictly for the club. The beats are very much synth heavy and she’s full force into the electronic movement. Clearly, someone did their homework to ensure this album consists of music which pop radio only caters to. While Femme Fatale lacks the urban edge and overall genius which dominated ‘Blackout’, it is still a rock solid pop record, which possibly may have bested its predecessor ‘Circus’. This album's flaws comes in during the auto-tuned filled crap "Big Fat Bass" and the unbearable, uninspiring, boring "Criminal".
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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I think I'll write a review for this one
Score: 78
Tracks: I Wanna Go, Till The World Ends, Trip to Your Heart
Britney's seventh studio album is an electronic pop furry that dares to be reckoned with. She utilizes electronic dance sub genres on most of the album, including industrial and dubstep on the chart topping "Hold it Against Me", the R&B dubstep breakup ballad "Inside Out", Eurodance on her now classic song "Till the World Ends", and Hi-NRG on "I Wanna Go". Though it contains some of her strongest work to date, most of it feels like stale filler. I missed her sexual "I'm a Slave 4 U" tone on certain songs, her "Stronger" energy energy on others, heck it doesn't even have a proper ballad. I commemorate it for accomplishing its goal of being a "no emotion besides sex, show no signs of sorrow or vulnerability" album, but was that a good goal to begin with? To me it feels like a compilation of all her dance songs that normally made up a quarter of previous albums, all put in one. It lacks the emotion that Britney is normally able to convey perfectly into her other songs, and feels like she was almost... well, bored. Overall, it is a good album because it did what it set out to do. Did I like what it strived for? No, but I give credit where credit is due.
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Member Since: 9/19/2011
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Mine is coming
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Member Since: 2/20/2012
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These reviews seem a bit high; I'll have to bring it down.
Lemme give it one more listen.
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Member Since: 9/19/2011
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Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
Britney came back with a concept album totally fun, with songs to make people dance and have fun (thing she does since a while now). That album is basically Pop, with some urban influence ((Drop Dead) Beautiful, Inside Out), Dubstep (Hold It Against Me, Inside Out), Eurodance, Electro-dance and some other type of dance. She has some strong material in that album, but some fillers who can be replaced anytime by some tracks from the Deluxe Edition.
If your looking for some deep lyrics forget it, this album is really a club ready project. She's not into sex, like she did before, She is just a simple girl who want to dance and enjoy life.
The thing is she is not a girl anymore, she is a grown up woman and most of her fanbase too, it may be the time to have some more emotional, personal, more mature material. No?
Score 71/100
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Inside Out, How I Roll, Trouble For Me
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Originally posted by chilicheese01
These reviews seem a bit high; I'll have to bring it down.
Lemme give it one more listen.
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i can't wait to review Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
oh, i'm gonna drag that album to the pits of hell!
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Member Since: 2/20/2012
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Originally posted by Cahleb
i can't wait to review Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
oh, i'm gonna drag that album to the pits of hell!
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That album's already been done.
But you can still take your time to review a masterpiece if you so choose.
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Member Since: 11/11/2009
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Originally posted by chilicheese01
That album's already been done.
But you can still take your time to review a masterpiece if you so choose.
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and why hasn't the score been added to the front page?
why didn't it even get a proper post with it's grade and final review?
i missed all of those pages and this is the album i've been wanting to review!
so just wait a few minutes!
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Member Since: 10/28/2011
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Originally posted by Cahleb
i can't wait to review Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
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That album has been done. Giacobbe tried to do it but I believe there was too much trolling.
He said it got a 57 on Page 18 & it got a "Half Way Update" review on Page 15.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Electra Heart 76/100
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Member Since: 11/11/2009
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10/100
1. Marylin Monroe
2. Hov Lane
3. Roman Holiday
as Billboard likes to call her, the black Lady Gaga has released her anticipated second studio album. Onika went hard on her first album but quickly sold out for them hits and worldwide success. Onika sure did eliminate her entire urban fanbase. you want to act like a popstar, then you're going to sell like a popstar. the best tracks on the album are pop ballad, "Marylin Monroe" and the two urban tracks, "Hov Lane" and "Roman Holiday". the first half is Rap Nicki coming hard but she changes it up for her pop persona and dishes out those generic hits filled with dubstep. the second half of the album would have worked for a REAL POPSTAR. Katy, Britney, Gaga, Ke$ha, they could have made it work. the production on the songs are great but Nicki doesn't deliver what she's supposed to. the rap side of the album starts off with a bang but slowly declines in quality once it gets to "Champion". overall, this is a huge disappointment after the rap masterpiece that is Pink Friday.
NICKI GO BACK TO RAP!
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Member Since: 2/17/2012
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ooh watch out for Bandrew.
I'd edit that post and just PM the review to Giacobbe.
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Member Since: 8/19/2011
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Femme Fatale
40/100
Standout Tracks: Hold It Against Me, Inside Out, I Wanna Go
I was so excited for Brit's 7th album, especially after hearing Hold It Against Me, which is, by far, the standout track on the album. I was also excited when the snippets for the album were made available (especially for I Wanna Go and Inside Out). However, listening to the album as a whole, there is tons of filler, with only a few great tracks. Most of the tracks achieve being fun and light-hearted, but some of them sound forced and uninspired (like Big Fat Bass, the worst song on the album IMO). Other tracks are pretty catchy, such as Trouble For Me, Up n' Down, and Till the World Ends, but the tracks overall sound pretty flat and boring. I know Brit's voice is never grouped with some of the great vocalists today, but her vocals are so overproduced on this album, it makes them sound even worse. Her voice isn't terrible, and it's very distinct, so I wish her producers would have let her voice shine a little more. Overall, I really wish she would have had more HIAM-like tracks on the album, but I was sadly disappointed. The great tracks are really great, but rating this album as a whole makes it impossible to overlook the shortcomings in her voice and the other, more disappointing tracks. Where is the personality?
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