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Aug 26, 2016Spears is back at 34 with an album that carries her one-of-a-kind electricity without depicting her as a victim or an avenging force; here she seems in control, a grown woman having a laugh on her own terms.
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Aug 26, 2016It'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.
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Aug 25, 2016A pop album that operates on its own terms, partly thanks to the way the white-hot notoriety of the star at its center allowed her to, after all these years, rule her own pop fiefdom.
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Aug 26, 2016Not everything is glorious, but it might be something better: human. Finally, Spears is having as much fun as her songs sound.
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Sep 1, 2016On Glory it is something to celebrate; the sound of a Britney Spears much more confident and comfortable in herself than she has seemed in years.
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Aug 26, 2016Glory is a welcome comeback for a true pop visionary.
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Aug 22, 2016By 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.
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Sep 1, 2016Although 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.
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Sep 1, 2016Like 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.
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Sep 1, 2016Glory 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.
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Aug 29, 2016Whether Glory will have the same commercial and cultural impact remains to be seen, but for now, Britney fans can rejoice: part of her is indeed back.
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Aug 29, 2016There are a few missteps--the awkward retro stylings of What You Need, the horrendous Private Show, Do You Wanna Come Over?’s half-baked chorus--but there’s still enough here to excite.
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Aug 26, 2016It 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.
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Aug 24, 2016Even with her voice upfront, Ms. Spears isn’t singing anything particularly personal.
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