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BRITNEY SPEARS
Circus
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After spending most of the last few years as a walking punchline, Britney Spears attempted a comeback last year that failed miserably. With her awful MTV VMA performance and that crappy Blackout album still fresh in everybody's minds, she returns with Circus.
You can't say she's not trying.
The good news is that the former Mrs. Federline's second comeback attempt in as many years is a vast improvement over last year's attempt. Funny thing is, it's impossible to reinvent yourself when you've never been invented in the first place. Every Britney album follows the same formula: two hit singles–one a dance track and another a slow ballad–along with a bunch of fillers and generic pop and/or generic R & B.
With 15 producers and countless writers/producers, Britney's lack of vocal talents is more than covered. Using a vocoder on most tracks, her voice hits the required range on tracks like “Unusual You”, a bass heavy thumping trance track.
But for every good track, there's one that's laughably bad. On “If You Seek Amy”, Britney thinks she has created a clever pun (“if you seek amy” sounds like “F. U. C. K. me”) and holds onto that one pun for the entire song. Well, much like the eyeroll-inducing line “It's Britney, Bitch!” from her last album, when Britney tries to be hip, she just falls flat on her face.
Stick to dance tracks and ballads and leave the vulgar puns to rappers, Brit.
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