Maybe the weirdest thing that has happened in pop music over the past five years is the collapse of Spears. Not in album sales mind you. Her 2008 Circus went to number 1, her 2007 Blackout went to number 2. No the collapse I'm talking about is in Spears the performer. Blackout was a legitimate album where you felt as though Spears was involved, but it was around 2007 that Spears started having instability issues and turned her life over to her father and production company. The album that followed that move, Circus, and the tour that followed showed that Spears had completely checked out. It was as if she walked in and did her parts on the album and tour with no effort at all. On this latest album that formula seems to have held, but the production company played it better this time around. They brought in better songwriters and better producers and put together a dance album that is really all about the music. Spears is merely the voice filing in the gaps and is almost a non existent entity. Oddly this works much better than Circus which was just awful.
Still there isn't much here. You could pick some songs off for a workout mix, but that's all this album has to offer.
Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 1 out of 5 stars for Just OK.
Matthew, did she ever have any talent? I always had the impression that she can barely sing at all, and that all of the production nonsense that surrounds her is designed to hide that basic fact.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't a question of talent, but involvement. Sure she has never been a good singer, but her vocals were at least energetic and involved. No joke on Circus there were songs where it sounded as though they woke her up long enough to record her voice and then put her back to bed. Then her tours in the past had been very choreographed and energetic. Again on Circus it was just awful. She seem to just walk out and move around while the professional dancers did their thing around her. Very odd stuff.
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