The Village Voice, November 7th, 2007
Britney Spears Blackout Jive Much, much better than you had (justifiably) feared Britney Spears's title as leader of 1999's teen-pop surge can make you forget that she's never made a good album. She's made singles, but her records have never cohered, which became a problem when 2001 's Britney pitched her as a real person: The album pretended at portraiture but was as fractured as the hit collections before it. By 2003's In the Zone, as her contemporaries morphed into singer-songwriters with better guitars, a left-behind Spears sounded more diffuse than ever. Add the escalating sideshow o...
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