Word: britneyness
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...Britney Spears possesses exactly two salient points and one asset worth discussing. She is perhaps not unique in Hollywood in this respect, but if her own chit-chat is to be believed, her latest album, Britney, is the ambitious product of her growing maturity and artistic integrity. Spears would have us believe that her burgeoning sexuality is part of a critically respected, yet popularly titillating career path dominated by Madonna for two decades. While certainly she deserves credit for setting such lofty goals, Britney falls so far short of its purported artistic achievement that it could well mark the defining...
...relevant to the targeted generation of eight to 15-year old girls. A teen artist achieves relevance, often translated into coolness, with a combination of catchy, tuneful melodies, upbeat and appealing music videos and a distinct separation from the drudgery and toil of the real world teens inhabit. With Britney, Spears has failed in all three objectives. In seeking to redefine her appeal, she has seriously compromised her once-secure position as queen of the young...
...stark contrast with her previous work, Britney has none of Spears’ trademark overpoweringly catchy tunes. For all her critical failure, at least songs like 1999’s “Sometimes” and 2000’s “Lucky” possessed melodies liable to stick in one’s head for days. Instead, Britney is one long stretch of discouraging filler songs virtually devoid of melody. Where a workable melody does exist, as in “That’s Where You Take Me,” her producers smother...
With her latest album, Spears has cast herself as the prophetess of a maturing demographic of girls and their horribly repressed sexuality. Ultimately, her visions are not original, not interesting and not resonant with the world’s youth. No aspect of the multimedia extravaganza that is Britney Spears now fulfills the potential she once mastered. For all the runaway popularity she once enjoyed, Spears has made her greatest step yet to discard it entirely...
...attacks. The dominant concerns of last May--litter and guns--have been replaced by burning buildings, plane crashes and nuclear explosions and a fear of losing their parents. On the other hand, it was heartening to learn that the kids who earlier surveys showed were likely to count Britney Spears and the Rock as role models now worshipped fire fighters and police...