Britney kicks off a month of big album releases, soon to be followed by Leona Lewis, Girls Aloud and then Kylie Minogue, so my blog will be temporarily be revived to spread my thoughts on them. Living on campus my blog editing buttons dont always display properly / youtube wont load and p2p filesharing is stricly prohibited so apart from kind record labels sending me albums to review im at a bit of a loss.But here we have britney to guide us through these dark days. Ive never bought a britney album before but combine this with the greatest hits and i think you have the definitve collection.
on first listen the beats seemed relentless the vocals too processed and the hooks reduced to childlike repetition. 3days later and this is undoubtedly where its charm and coherence, its ingenuity and sheer dance brilliance lie.
gimme more sets the scene for much of what follows. critics have decried the artificial vocals and the stipclub imagery conjured by the lyrics, but those critics are not the ones going to be dancing to these tracks for the next year. regardless of britneys condition in the coming months, jive should stick to their guns an release plenty of singles from this collection.
pieces of me has the bold wit of a chorus that i wish brtney had written herself but it still works. track three is my favourite possibly becuase it gets a lot of flack for being so noisy but its definatly the best song to sing along too...
Heaven on earth is another favourite, while the critically lauded freakshow and toy soldier im really not buying...things go slack on the latter half of the album, but this is true of most pop albums and at leats britney gets us to around track 9 before things get to earnest.
This is a great album and will pass a pleasent week until Leona arrives. after that it will need to be retired becuase its in danger of being one of the only good albums from a whole host of big acts that hits the target and that makes me wanna overplay.
