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8.3
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8.3 |
A.V. Club
Frequently big, dumb, and loud in the best possible sense
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8.0
24135
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Masterful mixture of über-cool dubstep and sugary pop
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8.0
23417
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Femme fatale? Not so much. But say this for Britney: She's an adventuress
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8.0
24123
8.0 |
The Observer
It would be tempting at this point to say that Britney is on fire, having turned in the "fierce dance record" she promised. But let's just say: she's hot to trot
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7.0
23809
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Spears and her fans needed this record. Pop music needed this record
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7.0
24190
7.0 |
BBC
This set is nowhere near as consistent as Blackout; but stripped down to probable singles it’s home to at least five classic Britney hits
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7.0
24349
7.0 |
NME
Britney claims it's her best work yet, and she's not wrong
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7.0
24600
7.0 |
No Ripcord
Equips Britney with material which is strong enough to enable the original all-American Pop Princess to hold her own in such an overcrowded context
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6.0
24211
6.0 |
The Scotsman
Britney, through no fault of her own, continues her run of half-decent albums with this streamlined, fairly fashionable collection of dancefloor tunes
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6.0
24322
6.0 |
Entertainment.ie
Doesn't herald the resurrection of the child star turned sex kitten we all hate to love, but it does mark a reinvention of sorts
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6.0
23295
6.0 |
Slant Magazine
The success of a Britney song rests almost entirely on the quality of other people's songwriting and production, and almost every track on Femme Fatale succeeds or fails on that basis
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6.0
23979
6.0 |
The Guardian
At its best, it sounds like a party, with a cutting-edge pop soundtrack. The question of precisely what Britney Spears brings to said party remains as imponderable as ever
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6.0
24056
6.0 |
Evening Standard
Thumping keyboards, hardcore electro backbeats, an undercurrent of mischief and a robotic relentlessness. Things could have been very much worse
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5.0
24200
5.0 |
PopMatters
It took seven full-length albums and over a decade of dance-pop singles to get Spears to just one moment of genuine, actual humanity
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4.0
24129
4.0 |
Independent on Sunday
An album of autotuned landfill chartpop which you will scour in vain for anything on a par with "Womanizer"
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4.0
23970
4.0 |
The Independent
Gaga's music, let's be frank, is not that much better than, or even different to, that on Femme Fatale, but she knows the lingering appeal of playing dress-up
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2.0
23898
2.0 |
Eye Weekly
Who’d have thought Spears’ 44-minute odyssey to procure dirty, clubland sex could ever have sounded so sexless?
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