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Celeb News: Official 'Work Bitch' Reviews: 4 Stars from Rolling Stone
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Britney Spears’ new single Work B**** gets mixed reaction from fans
Britney Spears’ new single Work B**** has been listened to by thousands of fans after being leaked early – and the response has been mixed.
The 31-year-old had been teasing fans for weeks about her comeback track but a spoilsport has spilled the tune online ahead of schedule.
‘Almost there tweeps….Who’s ready to get to #WORKBxxCH on Monday?!’ the singer asked her 31million Twitter followers yesterday – but the track was available to hear online just hours later.
One enthusiastic fan tweeted Britney directly to say: ‘I CAN’T STOP LISTENING “WORK BITCH”. YOU ARE THE UNDISPUTED PRINCESS OF POP. I LOVE YOU AND I’M PROUD OF YOU BRITNEY.’
‘I’m not usually a Britney fan but her new song work b**** has left me speechless. SO GOOD!!!!’ agreed Twitter user uyeter10.
Another fan said: ‘I can’t wait till Britney performs Work Bitch! HAKSNSKSNSDODBSWLND’.
But others weren’t s enamoured of Britney’s latest efforts, criticising the song for being ‘tacky’ and ‘annoying’.
Vicky Soria tweeted to say: ‘Britney Spears’s Work B***h #sucks!’.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/15/britne...-fans-4020376/
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The irony on your part!!! 
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I am loving the fact that people are embracing this new type of sound from Britney and are obviously loving it. I was slightly concerned that the reviews and reception would be mixed only because this is really unexpected and untypical sound from Britney and she hasn't really made this type of sounding music in terms of lyrical content, but the reviews and reception obviously show people are here for it, get that praise good sis Brit 
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The irony on your part!!!
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it's a BIT of a mess. so to sum it up, if the review is positive then the source is not reputable, but if its negative, then it is reputable? hive logic 
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Snatch that critical acclaim Brit!
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New review from Slant:
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Britney Spears has dropped her new single, "Work Bitch," a day early after the track leaked online over the weekend. Co-written and produced by will.i.am, the song finds the singer vamping in the same faux-continental accent she dubiously employed on the pair's recent Top 5 hit "Scream & Shout"—or is it just a ghastly attempt at British? "Work Bitch" follows the current EDM model of painfully aggressive, treble-heavy beats, harsh synths, and tuneless hooks, but makes even "Scream & Shout" sound like a melodic feast. At its best, that song plays like an homage to dance music's recent past, with nods to Underworld's "Born Slippy" and even Spears's own "Gimme More"; "Work Bitch," on the other hand, seems to aspire to classic bitch-queen anthems, but Spears's repeated instructions to "work, work, work" (to reach, if the cover art is any indication, the desired Nomi Malone levels of success) feel mechanical and forced. But that's no surprise coming from a pop icon whose longevity is largely due to her unwavering dedication to churning out maddeningly mindless and infectious tripe like "Work Bitch."
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I really like this. 
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Flop minority view imo
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Slant has always hated Britney, next.
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buy werk bitch at midnight on itunes! b army we better work bitches 
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Slant has always hated Britney, next.
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they hate everyone but let me add it anyway
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"Work Bitch" follows the current EDM model of painfully aggressive, treble-heavy beats, harsh synths, and tuneless hooks, but makes even "Scream & Shout" sound like a melodic feast.
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Sounds about right.
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Britney Spears‘ single ‘Work B—h’ leaked a day ahead of its planned release. The verdict is in — it’s Britney, b—h. It’s a club banger, too. If you want a mansion or a Maserati or any of the luxuries in life, you better put your nose to the grindstone and work, b—h.
Any feminists that were offended by Beyonce‘s liberal use of the term for female dog in ‘Bow Down’ will drop their jaws once they hear ‘Work B—h.’ Brit tosses the word around left and right, up and down.
‘Work B—h’ is the antithesis of her previous single, ‘Ooh La La,’ which lived on the ‘Smurfs 2′ soundtrack. Whereas that track was sugary, soft and sweet, and something she did for her sons, this one harks back to her red latex catsuit-wearing days.
Sonically, ‘Work B—h’ is Brit Brit’s take on EDM. A jarring and hard house beat is threaded through the whole song. Brit’s vocals are not abundantly forward in the mix, and she has traded her breathy, baby voice for some heavy processing. The result is a robotic, droney vocal. But when she orders “Now get to work b—h,” you will feel compelled to fall in line.
The faux British accent that she employed in ‘Scream & Shout,’ her duet with will.i.am, can be heard on ‘Work B—h,’ when she dares you to call the police and the governor.
During the bridge, when Brit barks “Work it out” over and over, she sounds a little strident, but the rigidity of the beat requires this kind of vocal. Her diction on the word “work” is a little strange but overall, Brit gets extra points for keeping us on our toes and doing something we did not expect. She followed up a fluffy single with a ferocious one. Rawr!
At this point, we can safely and confidently say she is like Madonna — a pop diva who throws us for loops and stays ahead of the trends instead of following them.
This is not EDM-lite, as many pop tarts have attempted. It’s urgent and intense, and finds Brit reinventing herself. ‘Work B—h’ will have you dancing on the floor until you’ve sweated off several pounds.
Work has never sound this much like play.
http://popcrush.com/britney-spears-work-b-h/
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Originally posted by phatty033
Britney Spears‘ single ‘Work B—h’ leaked a day ahead of its planned release. The verdict is in — it’s Britney, b—h. It’s a club banger, too. If you want a mansion or a Maserati or any of the luxuries in life, you better put your nose to the grindstone and work, b—h.
Any feminists that were offended by Beyonce‘s liberal use of the term for female dog in ‘Bow Down’ will drop their jaws once they hear ‘Work B—h.’ Brit tosses the word around left and right, up and down.
‘Work B—h’ is the antithesis of her previous single, ‘Ooh La La,’ which lived on the ‘Smurfs 2′ soundtrack. Whereas that track was sugary, soft and sweet, and something she did for her sons, this one harks back to her red latex catsuit-wearing days.
Sonically, ‘Work B—h’ is Brit Brit’s take on EDM. A jarring and hard house beat is threaded through the whole song. Brit’s vocals are not abundantly forward in the mix, and she has traded her breathy, baby voice for some heavy processing. The result is a robotic, droney vocal. But when she orders “Now get to work b—h,” you will feel compelled to fall in line.
The faux British accent that she employed in ‘Scream & Shout,’ her duet with will.i.am, can be heard on ‘Work B—h,’ when she dares you to call the police and the governor.
During the bridge, when Brit barks “Work it out” over and over, she sounds a little strident, but the rigidity of the beat requires this kind of vocal. Her diction on the word “work” is a little strange but overall, Brit gets extra points for keeping us on our toes and doing something we did not expect. She followed up a fluffy single with a ferocious one. Rawr!
At this point, we can safely and confidently say she is like Madonna — a pop diva who throws us for loops and stays ahead of the trends instead of following them.
This is not EDM-lite, as many pop tarts have attempted. It’s urgent and intense, and finds Brit reinventing herself. ‘Work B—h’ will have you dancing on the floor until you’ve sweated off several pounds.
Work has never sound this much like play.
http://popcrush.com/britney-spears-work-b-h/
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They better work bitch.
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The praise from D list blogs.
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Can anyone post celebrity comments on "Work Bitch", like twitter updates supporting the queen.
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I'll wait for reputable reviews, not Perez Hilton and the likes.
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THANK. you. 
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Britney Spears Is a Cruel, Faux-British Taskmaster on Wack 'Work Bitch'
Will.i.am collaboration leaks a day early, isn't anything to 'Scream & Shout' about
It's Britney, bitch, all right, but not at her best. Britney Spears has sprinkled a breadcrumb trail of reasons to hope for greatness from her next album: a hint it might be a sequel to 2007's underrated Blackout, a promise of "my most personal album ever," and reports she was working with William Orbit, Charli XCX, Hit-Boy, Sia, and other skilled hitmakers. Unfortunately, the reality of the music she has released in the past 12 months — The Smurfs 2's bland "Ooh La La," Will.i.am's airless "Scream & Shout" — hasn't yet lived up to those hopes.
"Work Bitch," the first taste of Spears' upcoming LP, will be another disappointment to those who like their Britney dark and weird — or at least infectiously celebratory, as on 2011's zeitgest-seizing "Till the World Ends." Will.i.am, former Swedish House Mafia member Sebastian Ingrosso, and a whole host of others worked on the song, and although pop-by-committee can certainly point to its share of successes, this one is just more rote club-pop, hardly "personal" or inventive. The lyrics come across like a sadomasochistic fitness club instructor or a pop-savvy recitation of rugged individualist propaganda: "You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti? You want a Maserati? You better work bitch!" There's none of the sly consumer-culture critique of Lorde's "Royals."
It'd be wrong to call the track totally personality-less, because Spears does sneak in some off-kilter tics, including a return to her "Scream & Shout" British accent. But though it smacks of the effort of an entire corporation, "Work Bitch" could still use some more work. (Let's all pause and give thanks they didn't title it "Twerk Bitch.")
The song leaked over the weekend, so Spears' team shared it early, foiling an online countdown; stream it below.
http://www.spin.com/articles/britney...-bitch-stream/
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