In the age of Beyoncé dropping a game-changing surprise visual album, and even Gaga’s OTT flying dress art-rave attempts to hype up an album release, Britney’s Britney Jean went completely under the radar. And probably for good reason, because it is really terrible.
We all want Britney to rise again to the top and have her comeback but this album will even let down her biggest fans. An album mainly comprising of auto-tuned ballads and EDM ‘bangers’, produced by nobody’s favourite will.i.am, they all fall short of being catchy or well produced songs. The Britney glory days ended back at her brilliant sex-pop album Blackout, which although were upstaged by her ‘crazy’ phase behavior, they were her most well crafted songs on par with Justin’s Future Sex / Love Sounds.
It’s disappointing and lackluster from opening track Alien, to the weak Perfume which features the lyrics ‘I gotta mark my territory’ which just sounds so wrong. The trademark Britney baby voice ‘singing’ style just doesn’t work at age 31. And don’t even get me started on the cringe-worthy duet with her younger sister Jamie Lynn on Chillin’ With You.
Work Bitch is the stand out track, mainly because it received some airplay and we’ve heard it but the fact someone didn’t grammatically title it ‘Work, Bitch’ really bothers me. This album sadly solidifies the end of the Britney era or any hope of the come back we wanted from Britney.
BY MIMI VELEVSKA
Best Track: Work Bitch
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In A Word: Terrible
