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Written by Karen
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June 19, 2009 |
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I haven't written an "In Depth" analysis of one of Britney's songs for ages. I used to do it because people asked me to, and because there was a definite demand for them on the forums I regularly visited. But in the last few years I had gotten a feeling that nobody was really all that interested any more.
However! A few days ago I realised that I had always neglected the "Blackout" album. I bought it (of course) but only played it once. I preferred my album of "Blackout"-era outtakes, given to me by a friend who bought it on eBay. Yet Britney fans kept insisting that "Blackout" was her best album and going into ecstasies about most of the tracks on it.
So I decided to review the situation, and brought the album out to my car and played it continuously at high volume for 5 days straight. I think it was the sheer physical impact on my brain that finally made me see the quality and richness and depth of the songs on "Blackout". Every track is full of originality, special little hooks and - above all - that rare alchemy between singer and song that creates magic.
How can people fail to hear the power, urgency, intensity and variety in Britney's vocals? I don't get it. Maybe they just haven't played it loud enough. Her singing on "Blackout" has received an extremely unfair rap up to now, with various ignorant "wise heads" proclaiming that it was mechanical, robotic, artificial, synthesized... and basically everything that it is most definitely NOT.
I think all of these tracks are pretty amazing examples of modern pop. They help to demonstrate that Britney Spears is one of the greatest studio pop voices of all time. They deserve to be covered in depth and this project will begin within the next few days.
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Wow, you only listened to Blackout once? That's...weird.
That's like being a devout Christian and only reading the Bible once.