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| | Billboard.com - Discography - Britney Spears - Blackout |
 | | Britney may not have much on her mind but at least she pockets so deep she can buy the best producers, hiring Bloodshy and Avant, the Clutch and the Neptunes, among others, to help craft an album that cribs from Rhianna's sleek, sexy Good Girl Gone Bad and the chilly robo-RandB of Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds. |
 | | Now, those images are replaced by images of Britney beating cars up with umbrellas, wiping her greasy fingers on designer dresses, and nodding off on-stage, each new disaster stripping away any residual sexiness in her public image, so when she tries to purr and tease on Blackout she repels instead of seduces. |
 | | That's the new Britney, and as she's always been an artist who relies on image, her tarnished persona does taint the ultimate effect of her music, as knowledge of her ceaseless partying turns these anthems a bit weary and sad. |
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