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.
Britney Spears's eighth album, Britney Jean, is polished pop - but beneath the gleam lie banal lyrics and a lack of personality.
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.
Britney Jean finds Spears sounding more engaged than she has in a decade.
Britney Jean is stocked with a mix of harsh EDM a la “Scream & Shout” and flaccid midtempo pop.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As a personal record, Britney Jean barely scratches the surface of one of our most intriguing popstars.
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.
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.
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
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
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
1 | Alien 3:56 | 66 |
2 | Work Bitch 4:07 | 79 |
3 | Perfume 3:59 | 76 |
4 | It Should Be Easy 3:26 feat. will.i.am | 38 |
5 | Tik Tik Boom 2:57 feat. T.I. | 46 |
6 | Body Ache 3:25 | 50 |
7 | Til It's Gone 3:42 | 58 |
8 | Passenger 3:40 | 52 |
9 | Chillin' With You 3:38 feat. Jamie Lynn Spears | 16 |
10 | Don't Cry 3:14 | 50 |