Popular Post Slayn Posted August 4 Popular Post Posted August 4 (edited) https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/britney-spears-blackout/ Stellar score, deserved higher though! Blackout's retrospective acclaim continues— Edited August 4 by Slayn 9 9 3
Popular Post James_Dean Posted August 4 Popular Post Posted August 4 She wasn't playing starting the album with It's Britney, *****! 1 14
Sazare Posted August 4 Posted August 4 Tbh I would've expected higher from them (especially nowadays in their score inflation era) but let me read the review. Their Sunday retrospectives are really the only interesting content they publish these days. 2
nostalgic Posted August 4 Posted August 4 I'm more so surprised that they've never reviewed a Britney album before not even 1? Hopefully they eventually do Circus and give it some well deserved praise.
X~MoviePoP Posted August 4 Posted August 4 Deserved atleast a 8.5 And grammy noms. I need danja to get it together and work with britney again 1
X~MoviePoP Posted August 4 Posted August 4 1 minute ago, Tropez said: The album that influenced Brat Did charli confirm this
X~MoviePoP Posted August 4 Posted August 4 I dont wanna read the article. Which songs did they like the most?
Hook Up Posted August 4 Posted August 4 Deserves like 8.4-8.6 by Pitchfork's standards but w/e it's a 10 in this house 6
gm4567 Posted August 4 Posted August 4 I understand that you cannot really talk about this album/era without talking about her life at that point but they talk way more about her personal life than actually critique the music in this review. No mention of Break The Ice or Get Back either which imo are some of the best songs on the album! 8
geddymonster Posted August 4 Posted August 4 All the haters who said Britney just copied Justin (even though their albums sound nothing alike) are about to be big mad. 1 2 1
Bubble Tea Posted August 4 Posted August 4 Not actually that interested in reviews of this album cause I knew both back in 2007, and now, that it was a significant and, at the time, underrated record. All music reviews tend to be tainted by wider cultural and social opinion moreso than simply a focus on the music. 8 1
Popular Post ToMmY Posted August 4 Popular Post Posted August 4 "The year before, Spears' superstar ex had made a promise to bring sexy back. I listen to FutureSex/LoveSounds today and cringe, less for the pleasures of millennial misandry than for how purely wack it sounds when played next to Blackout. Why is it that Blackout sounds vital today where FutureSex sounds limp, though Danja's fingerprints are all over both records? You could call it a vibe shift: FutureSex marked the end of Timbaland's 10-year reign as urban radio innovator, while Blackout looked ahead to our synthetic future. (Timbaland's slick beats in the late '90s and 2000s conjured images of hoverboards and flying cars, but it's the melancholy futurism of TLC's FanMail that resonates today in its 1999 vision of lonely androids refreshing their inboxes.) More than that, Spears understood something Timberlake didn't: Abjection is a powerful aphrodisiac, and desire requires a void." OOP. 22
TouchinFree Posted August 4 Posted August 4 I mean it is a solid 10 although I think this is quite good for PF's standards. I haven't read the whole review, but they talked so much about her personal life. 1
Jeremiah Posted August 4 Posted August 4 1 hour ago, nostalgic said: I'm more so surprised that they've never reviewed a Britney album before not even 1? Hopefully they eventually do Circus and give it some well deserved praise. There's this 2007 review-that's-not-a-review where they call Blackout an extraordinary album. https://pitchfork.com/features/poptimist/6734-poptimist-10/
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