Britney Jean
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Britney Jean
Britney Jean is the eighth studio album recorded by American singer Britney Spears, serving as the singer's second eponymous record after Britney(2001). The album was made available for music download on December 3, 2013 through RCA Records. It marks Spears' first major activity since the dissolution of her long-time record label, Jive Records, in 2011.=Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Britney remains the queen who out-bangs, out-booms, out-bizarres them all. Britney Jean makes Yeezus sound like a positive-affirmations workshop.
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Billboard
"Britney Jean," her first album released in her thirties, is a subtle shift away from frantic bangers and into more forthright songwriting. Perhaps that displacement will steer Spears toward the pop-rock world.
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Consequence of Sound
The short story is that it’s going to have a few songs on the radio, and you’ll probably forget about them the moment the next Katy Perry song comes on.
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Vox Magazine
Britney Jean isn’t a revelation or a complete transformation in her work, but it’s different enough to listen to it twice (or three times) for fun.
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The Telegraph
Britney Spears's eighth album, Britney Jean, is polished pop - but beneath the gleam lie banal lyrics and a lack of personality.
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Slant Magazine
Britney Jean is the first Britney Spears album in which the singer is credited as a co-writer on every track (to put it in perspective, her songwriting credits on her last three efforts combined can be counted on one hand).
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CNN
Britney Spears' latest album is supposed to be intimate, but it's left a number of critics cold.
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The Guardian
a handful of anonymous, emotion-sapping EDM stompers, bookended by songs that could have formed the backbone of a much better album.
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Muu Muse
For the first time in her career, Britney has released an album that is just okay.
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Idolator
what’s left is something that doesn’t feel very exhilarating, or great, at all; it’s just okay.
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The Boston Globe
Nowhere does “Britney Jean” sound like Britney Spears.
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The Independent
If Britney Spears’ eighth album is what happens when the real Spears stands up, she might as well sit back down.
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The Music Hype
While still possessing some suggestiveness characterizing Spears, it seeks a more mature script to convey her emotions. Britney Jean, hence, isn’t always exciting because of this departure.
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Digital Spy
The singer's eighth studio outing lacks the spark of her classics.
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Pop Crush
The album is rife with synthy, EDM dance songs and there are a few emotional moments. There are more bangers than ballads.
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Annenberg Media Center
The Princess of Pop, Britney Spears, is back in the game with her eighth album that delves even deeper into her electronic obsession.
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The EW
in just 10 tidy songs, it brings us closer than ever before to that distant dreamer
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ABC News
Britney's voice is shockingly pushed further to the forefront of many of the mixes.
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Daily Beast
Britney Spears teased that ‘Britney Jean’ is her most personal album yet. It’s not. At all. And she may be the only person left who can get away with that.
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USA Today
On her new album, Britney Spears is more into the groove than provocation.
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The Bulletin
Whatever unique skills Spears once had — what were they again, anyway? — “Britney Jean” suggests she better prepare herself for the reality that she’s losing them fast.
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Philadelphia
“Britney Jean” Stinks and It’s All Will.i.am’s Fault.
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Brent Music Reviews
While Britney Jean still possesses some of the suggestiveness that typically characterizes Britney Spears, it also seeks a more mature script to convey her deepest emotions.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
The whole album slips through a crack in a hermeneutic circle.
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Vulture
The thing about personal albums is that they call for a personality, and a voice to project it. Britney Jean is dead on arrival.
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NY Daily News
But as she struggles to use that voice and squeeze herself back into a teen persona on her new CD, the now-32-year-old woman just ends up sounding like she's living her own private "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
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Time Out
Britney's latest is a mixed bag, but at least she's found her voice again
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Refinery 29
Britney Spears' Britney Jean Is Nice, But That's Really It
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Indie London
And to be fair, there’s high energy, effortless catchiness and dance-floor filling capabilities surrounding a lot of songs, which empower, inspire and make you want to get up and strutt your stuff.
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NZ Herald
But Britney Jean, the pop star's eighth album, has been remarkably free of drama. Ironically, the result is some of the blandest music she's made.
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Pop! Goes the Charts!
The album, at just 36 minutes in length, is a quick trip into the world of the pop princess, but a ride that isn’t a satisfactory one.
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No Rip Cord
After nearly fifteen years of successfully releasing material with little evidence of growth or stylistic evolution, the longevity of Britney’s career is something any pop star would envy, but one has to wonder how long this facade will go on.
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So Let's Talk About It
In the end, there just isn’t enough studio trickery and production bells & whistles to make this album worth while. Britney is mechanical on record.
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The Washington Post
Britney Spears tries to get personal, but there’s no personality on ‘Britney Jean’
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