Let's make one point clear, no matter what I write here or what anyone writes about Miss Spears' new album 'Black Out' , good or bad, she'll still sell like a gazillion copies.
I see folks picking up the album at the shelves and heading straight for the payment counters w/o even checking out it's song-listing. Now, beat that.
Point taken? :p
Anyway how, to cut to the chase, 'Black Out' is a not like her past studio efforts.
Past hit-albums like 'Britney' and 'In the Zone' documented her growth both personally and professionally. They displayed her emergence from teeny-bopper pop-tart and Max Martin-Ingenue, to an Independent Club-Goddess and pop-Siren superstar who is fully aware of her sexual-influence in pop-culture.
Given Britney's less-than-perfect public image of yore, a trailer-park of a marriage to K-Fed, 2 estranged kids in tow which she now cannot even mother and her detox-fiascoes, it's hardly a phase in her life which even she would want to call 'growth'.
So, it's not hard to fathom why Britney would rather pretend all that is happening right now in her personal life is either just a well-planned publicity stunt or simply non-existant in the media that she would rather not butter about.
Thus, 'Black Out' represents an album that conveniently 'skips' these traumatic times and becomes a follow up to 'In the Zone'. So expect more of 'have a good time with Britney' sexed-up tempos rather than 'in-your-face' messages of 'get-off-my-back-coz you've no right to size me up' grinds , ala , Whitney Houston's come-back album in 2002 ' Just Whitney' . Imagine a Britney doing a 'Just Britney'.
Considering how soul-less and lacking in accountability on her part, it may actually not be such a bad idea.... if she was to go "It's Britney, b*tch " throughout the entire album; seems enticing enough.
On another note, kids in tow , yes, but Spears is definitely not gunning for Mother of the Year ,so rest assured there won't be no pop-superstar goin all Yo-Mama the way Celine Dion did back thenwhen she had her own beet-root and came out with a ho-hum album called 'Miracle'which was sleep-inducing. Zzzzz... ;p
Perhaps, the only glimpse of Britney wanting to be all perky in these darker times and sick of how her sexed-up image had made her impossible to have a day without putting on an ounce of flab and not get lambasted , is that she's deviated from the club- sounds of 'In the Zone' which the hip-hop and flesh-flashing crazy Americans love and moved towards a more Euro-dance flavor that rave-crazy folks from the other side of The Pond prefer gyrating to.
Even the way her album is packaged says her intended direction for this album. Note the psychedelic graphics that speaks loud-and-raw 80's style.
Perhaps her reputation States-side is so tarnished that she's hoping this slight inflexion could help sustain her world-wide appeal and sales.
Either way, when the album opens with "It's Britney, B*tch!" before launching into a full out sex-machine mode that we've all come to love of her in the international mega hit single 'Gimme More', be prepared to have great time. :-)
Rihanna, Aguilera or Beyonce, cannot yet sleep on their laurels just yet.
You just need to get used to her new public persona that's all. Black it out. :-)
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