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Britney has delivered the best album of her career, raising the bar for modern pop music with an incendiary mix of Timbaland's 'Shock Value' and her own back catalogue.
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Poetry it's not. Still, there is something delightfully escapist about Blackout, a perfectly serviceable dance album abundant in the kind of bouncy electro elements that buttressed her hottest hits.
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Every song counts as markedly progressive and strange, from 'Get Naked (I Got A Plan)' (which sounds like intergalactic R&B filtered through The Cure's "Pornography") to 'Freakshow,' which gets by on little more than serpentine snaps, wub-wub bass, and Britney sounding synthetic and irresistibly at home.
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It's a bold, exciting album.
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Overall the album is consistently strong and evenly balanced between sexy club tracks and sexy pop tracks.
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The production is glossy and futuristic to a nearly avant-garde point, yet every song is a hit.
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Blackout is state-of-the-art dance-pop, a testament to skills of the producers and perhaps even Britney being somehow cognizant enough to realize she should hire the best, even if she's not at her best.
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She's gonna crank the best pop booty jams until a social worker cuts off her supply of hits.
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Spears’s fifth studio album is her most consistent, a seamlessly entertaining collection of bright, brash electropop.
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For all the state-of-the-art urban production, there’s something distinctly unsavoury about Blackout. And yet, the truly bizarre thing is, the music is top notch.
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Blackout may be more a tribute to the skills of the A-list producers who guided her through the disc than to any of her own talents.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 835 out of 974
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Mixed: 31 out of 974
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Negative: 108 out of 974
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MarinaS.Dec 4, 2009The best her album ever!!
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Sep 10, 2011
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Jan 28, 2016