Pitchfork gives Blackout<\/i> by Britney Spears a score of 8.1\/10 in new retrospective review.<\/p>\n
Choice highlights from the review:<\/b>
\u201c’Piece of Me’ is among the great works of American art about fame. But at the 2:08 mark, it becomes a masterpiece as Spears\u2019 voice glitches, stutters, and doubles over the throb of a synth line as elegant as the 2000\u2019s iciest grime. It is rightfully here that the careers of Charli XCX and PC Music begin, with music that still sounds like the future of pop 17 years later.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe year before, Spears\u2019 superstar ex had made a promise to bring sexy back. I listen to FutureSex\/LoveSounds<\/i> today and cringe, less for the pleasures of millennial misandry than for how purely wack it sounds when played next to Blackout<\/i>. Why is it that Blackout<\/i> sounds vital today where FutureSex<\/i> sounds limp, though Danja\u2019s fingerprints are all over both records? You could call it a vibe shift: FutureSex<\/i> marked the end of Timbaland\u2019s 10-year reign as urban radio innovator, while Blackout looked ahead to our synthetic future. (Timbaland\u2019s slick beats in the late \u201990s and 2000s conjured images of hoverboards and flying cars, but it\u2019s the melancholy futurism of TLC\u2019s FanMail<\/i> that resonates today in its 1999 vision of lonely androids refreshing their inboxes.) More than that, Spears understood something Timberlake didn\u2019t: Abjection is a powerful aphrodisiac, and desire requires a void.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full review at the source.<\/p>\n It’s Britney, bitch<\/p>\n Our Sunday Review of Britney Spears’ Blackouthttps:\/\/t.co\/hgph3VZ7UH<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Pitchfork (@pitchfork) August 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n\n
ONTD, what’s your favorite song(s) off Blackout?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n