"Her record company would no doubt like us to consider this album a
bold assertion of Spears' identity and, by extension, relative sanity.
"Crazy" is acceptable in pop, clinically insane is not. But the self-
consciously stylish tin-can beats on "Blackout," referencing every
'80s synth phenom from Trio to Berlin and smothered with vocal tics
cribbed from Beyonc=E9 and Christina Aguilera, actually testify to
Spears' absence, and point to the irrelevance of her modest
contribution to the process of building her brand. With so many hot
producers competing with one another, what you hear on "Blackout" are
not songs so much as commercials for songs - a team of professional
songwriters frantically overselling and spinning the image of a
celebrity who has essentially left the building."
- Salon.com's review of Brtney's new album, Blackout
[Image via Mavrix Online.]
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