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Spears extensively substitutes melody with a curious style of quasi-singing that can only be described as guttural muttering. The technique is featured prominently on the album’s first single, the ridiculously titled “I’m a Slave 4 U.” Even her most ardent fans would concede that she is worthless as a pure vocalist, but bad vocalists can still be effective singers: witness Bob Dylan. Instead of electronically manipulating her voice à la Cher in 1998’s “Believe,” Spears?...
...catalog entry particularly caught his eye: A manuscript entitled “The Bondwoman’s Narrative,” a fictional novel purportedly handwritten in the 1850s by an escaped female slave named Hannah Crafts...
Gates’s acquisition of the manuscript has stirred wide interest in the work even though at the time of the auction, few others believed the document was really written by an escaped slave...
David B. Davis, a professor at Yale and a historian of slavery, told The New York Times, “We have relatively few authentic slave narratives, and certainly a novel written by a black woman and former slave is almost sensational...
...Sept. 11; it was always frivolous to care about the artistic development of Britney Spears. Her promoters may call this album an evolution, but, like all things Britney, it's no more than a successful diversion that just happens to have titillating words and groans. I'm a Slave 4 U and I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman are rebellious (but not really, silly!); Boys offers the wisdom, "Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em," while Let Me Be and the Max Martin-produced Bombastic Love are irresistible pop. So what if it sounds...