Britney Spears - Glory
Critic Score
Based on 16 reviews
2016 Ratings: #784 / 1004
User Score
Based on 804 ratings
2016 Rank: #681
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
God Is in the TV

Spears hasn’t played it safe and most impressively, there’s isn’t a weak song here. Glory is 2016’s most unexpected musical triumph.

80
AllMusic

It's a welcome return, as is Glory as a whole: it feels as fun and frivolous as her earliest music while retaining the freshness of her best mature work.

80
The Arts Desk

It's 17 tracks of pretty sexy songs (her longest album to date) – the signature bubble gum pop updated to an X-rated version.

75
Entertainment Weekly

Not everything is glorious, but it might be something better: human. Finally, Spears is having as much fun as her songs sound.

70
Drowned in Sound

Against all apparent odds, Glory is her best album in ten years ... Lurching from flamenco to New Jack Swing influences without any self-consciousness or self-awareness, it successfully repeats Blackout’s trick of using synthetic production as the backdrop to an album brimming with personality.

70
Rolling Stone

Glory is a welcome comeback for a true pop visionary nobody expected to stick around long enough for a third album, much less a ninth.

70
Slant Magazine

By eschewing the harsh, dubstep-influenced EDM of her past two albums and embracing subtler pop and R&B sounds, Britney's made her most daring, mature album in years.

70
Spectrum Culture

Glory is all craft, but at the end of the day, that’s what pop is about and it would be churlish to ask for much more. This is one of Britney’s best albums.

60
musicOMH

Like Britney herself, Glory is a fascinating if flawed listen – while she remains very much a singles artist, this is her most successful record in a while, and still contains glimpses of why she remains so compelling, 18 years into her career.

60
NME

‘Glory’ is no masterpiece, but it’s a marked improvement on 2013’s ‘Britney Jean’, a messy attempt to merge thumping EDM tunes with supposedly reflective midtempo songs. A major contributing factor is Spears herself, who sounds re-energised and fully present for the first time in years.

60
No Ripcord

As far as Britney Spears records go, it is quite the reward ... Thankfully bereft of ballads, the record is packed with dancefloor bangers.

60
The Independent
Although it marks no significant shift in style – she’s still mining the same pop-R&B seam – it’s undoubtedly a better effort than its predecessor. The main improvement lies in the varied uses to which her voice is put.
60
The Telegraph

It may be nothing more than an exercise in maintaining the brand of the 21st Century’s most vacant superstar but, in its perfectly distilled empty pleasures, Glory might just be Britney’s masterpiece.

60
The Observer
It feels anchored by Spears rather than something happening around her. There are a few missteps ... but there’s still enough here to excite.
60
The Young Folks
Britney’s big talent is musical camouflage, being able to slide into different styles of pop and make it work for her. But it also disguises how uninteresting she is as a performer, with nothing but sex appeal and her delicacy to back her.
40
The Sydney Morning Herald
Spears puts very little of herself into these recordings, instead offering a fantasy, thin and uninspired.
exception
30

I CANNOT believe that even when Britney is SO OLD she still SLAYS!!! Proves that she is a timeless pop QWEEN that can DESTROY all of today's mainstream music. You're a sexist if this isn't your AOTY.

nightclubbing
75

A huge improvement from “Britney Jean”, this album does achieve its goal which was to make Britney sound current, in 2016 this album sounded extremely good and it honestly represented what pop sounded like, though that would change by the end of that same year lol. As a whole this album feels way more britney than “Britney Jean” which is funny because that was supposed to be her most personal album lool.

Highlights: Slumber Party, Do You Want to Come Over, Just Like Me, ... read more

ScoopTime
42

I couldn't have imagined a safer way to not have your career end on an all time low, and honestly I am glad it didn't end on Britney Jean because that was a bad project. Because of how hard they tried to make the safest project possible, they ended up making yet another eh project that feels more and more like a cope out then a "right foot" sendoff for Britney Spears for the foreseeable future. It sounds like The Chainsmokers rotted out what was left of Britney's Electropop era and ... read more

85

Circus's older sister

serjtankian
60

serj tankian approved

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Track List

1Invitation
3:20
75
2Do You Wanna Come Over?
3:23
85
3Make Me...
3:50
feat. G-Eazy
82
4Private Show
3:55
58
5Man On The Moon
3:46
72
6Just Luv Me
4:01
74
7Clumsy
3:03
69
8Slumber Party
3:34
83
9Just Like Me
2:44
69
10Love Me Down
3:18
71
11Hard To Forget Ya
3:29
69
12What You Need
3:07
64
Total Length: 41 minutes
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Added on: August 3, 2016