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.
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.
It's 17 tracks of pretty sexy songs (her longest album to date) – the signature bubble gum pop updated to an X-rated version.
Not everything is glorious, but it might be something better: human. Finally, Spears is having as much fun as her songs 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
As far as Britney Spears records go, it is quite the reward ... Thankfully bereft of ballads, the record is packed with dancefloor bangers.
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.
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.
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
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
1 | Invitation 3:20 | 75 |
2 | Do You Wanna Come Over? 3:23 | 85 |
3 | Make Me... 3:50 feat. G-Eazy | 82 |
4 | Private Show 3:55 | 58 |
5 | Man On The Moon 3:46 | 72 |
6 | Just Luv Me 4:01 | 74 |
7 | Clumsy 3:03 | 69 |
8 | Slumber Party 3:34 | 83 |
9 | Just Like Me 2:44 | 69 |
10 | Love Me Down 3:18 | 71 |
11 | Hard To Forget Ya 3:29 | 69 |
12 | What You Need 3:07 | 64 |
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