Britney Jean

Britney Spears - Britney Jean
Critic Score
Based on 22 reviews
2013 Ratings: #1094 / 1115
User Score
Based on 772 ratings
2013 Rank: #540
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CRITIC REVIEWS

83
Entertainment Weekly
Britney Spears remains as enigmatic as the Disney-groomed, emotionally insulated teen who greeted us in the late ’90s.
80
Billboard
“Britney Jean,” her first album released in her thirties, is a subtle shift away from frantic bangers and into more forthright songwriting.
70
Rolling Stone
Even though we’re in the middle of a pop-princess pileup this winter, with Miley, Katy, Gaga and more elbowing for room on the dance floor, Britney remains the queen who out-bangs, out-booms, out-bizarres them all.
60
The Arts Desk

Well, it’s certainly no Blackout, her smartest, most personal album, and it boasts many fewer glimpses behind the mask than she has led her public to believe.

60
The Telegraph

Britney Spears's eighth album, Britney Jean, is polished pop - but beneath the gleam lie banal lyrics and a lack of personality.

60
NOW Magazine

Ultimately, what’s most pleasing about ‘Britney Jean’ is that Spears is actually singing again ...  ‘Britney Jean’ finds Spears sounding more engaged than she has in a decade.

60
Time Out London

Britney Jean finds Spears sounding more engaged than she has in a decade.

50
AllMusic
As the record progresses, Britney sounds increasingly listless, fading into the synthesizers and bass.
50
Slant Magazine

Britney Jean is stocked with a mix of harsh EDM a la “Scream & Shout” and flaccid midtempo pop.

50
No Ripcord
A performer trained to entice tries to emote, and all that comes out is innocently awful music that is completely unaware of how bad it sounds.
50
A.V. Club
With Will.i.am, she’s put herself in the hands of a graceless, unimaginative puppetmaster who would rather string her through the same routine over and over than seek out her more nuanced charms.
50
Tiny Mix Tapes
This is almost defiantly her weirdest, most uncomfortable, and strained record yet.
40
Sputnikmusic

Britney Jean should stand less as her swan song and more as an unfortunate postscript, Spears leaving as she arrived: familiar, controlled, and overwhelmingly unremarkable.

40
FACT Magazine
Play this album from start to finish and it’s hard not to feel that at the core of its cheaply gratifying genealogy is nothing but misery.
40
Consequence of Sound

The entirety of Britney Jean sounds like it’s chasing success instead of demanding it. It functions as little other than a new album cycle to keep paychecks rolling in for Spears and her coworkers.

40
The Guardian
A handful of anonymous, emotion-sapping EDM stompers, bookended by songs that could have formed the backbone of a much better album.
40
The Independent
If Britney Spears’ eighth album is what happens when the real Spears stands up, she might as well sit back down.
40
The Observer

There isn't anything on Britney Jean that wipes the floor with Katy Perry, Lady Gaga or Miley Cyrus, the pretenders now remodelling the pop firmament neglected by Spears.

40
The Sydney Morning Herald

On Britney Jean, her eighth studio album, pop's faded princess operates as a cipher: her voice is heavily auto-tuned, the production renders the ecstatic as the perfunctory.

40
The Irish Times

As a personal record, Britney Jean barely scratches the surface of one of our most intriguing popstars.

40
Evening Standard

Britney Jean attempts to recast Spears as Madonna, circa Vogue. Instead, Spears’s robotic vocals, an absence of choruses, a surfeit of lyrical cheese and a lack of care and attention ensures she’s closer to Paris Hilton, circa any time.

30
SPIN

Britney Jean may chart respectably because it leads the most musically uneventful December in years, but it will soon fade like “Perfume,” because there’s zilch in the way of humanity here.

GersonAOTY
29

Britney Jean é um conjunto de bombas e uma tortura de ouvir de ínicio ao fim com poucas exceções como os singles "Work Bitch" e "Perfume" que mesmo assim são apenas decentes.

Em primeiro lugar, os vocais da Britney são misturados com um autotune completamente irritante e mal aproveitado além de que nem sequer 50% dos vocais deste projeto são dela mas sim de uma cantora chamada Myah Marie o que para mim mostra o ... read more

melencholysumme
43

this album feels like a complete mockery of britney's discography. i completely understand why people don't think this is brit since she was in an extremely bad place when this album was released, and the album itself is pretty upbeat. the dubstep influence was a bit overbearing and the overproduction made it painfully overwelming, but it wasn't absolutely terrible. parts of these tracks sound nothing like britney (such as perfume) and other parts sound like brit (like alien) , which makes me ... read more

nightclubbing
50

If “Femme Fatale” sounded like 2011 in a good way then “Britney Jean” sounds like 2013 in the worst way possible, though the album starts with its three best songs, it quickly starts to become rather annoying with its overuse of autotune and that annoying EDM drop, the album like 5-6 decent songs, the rest is just so annoying to listen to. Overall it’s probably Britney's worst album which isn’t even her fault, has she ever even acknowledged this album? does ... read more

serjtankian
40

serj tankian disapproved

NR

BRITNEY SPEARSSSSSSSSSSSSS

86

Underrated and one of her best

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Track List

1Alien
3:56
66
2Work Bitch
4:07
79
3Perfume
3:59
76
4It Should Be Easy
3:26
feat. will.i.am
38
5Tik Tik Boom
2:57
feat. T.I.
46
6Body Ache
3:25
50
7Til It's Gone
3:42
58
8Passenger
3:40
52
9Chillin' With You
3:38
16
10Don't Cry
3:14
50
Total Length: 36 minutes
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Added on: December 1, 2013