By Lead Bitch
Finicky critics are stuck on 'Circus'
Posted under Blog, Music on December 12, 2008
Sure Circus is selling like hotcakes, breaking records and topping music charts worldwide. But, get this: The critics also like what they hear. Check out these review excerpts to see what they are saying...
From the synthy open of "Womanizer" to the regretful ache spurring
"Blur," "Circus" gives Brit pop a whole new meaning, as the singer
does double duty as a dance diva and brokenhearted balladeer. It's
no easy feat, but when Spears shoves aside the tabloid trauma and
hooks up with the right producers--on this album it's Guy Sigsworth,
Danja, Dr. Luke and Max Martin--she is in a class of her own.
-- Ann
Donahue, Billboard
Circus shifts from defiant booty calls to subtler material;
suddenly, it's a first-rate electro-pop album. The Danja-produced
''Blur'' is a remarkably pretty song about (finally!) an actual
blackout. ''Mmm Papi'' giddily sets her littlest-girl voice against a
guitar right out of 1960s go-go rock.
The standout is ''Unusual You,'' a pulsating ballad where a woman of
experience finds unexpected love: ''Didn't anyone tell you you're
supposed to/Break my heart, I expect you to/So why haven't you?''
Mostly, Spears still presents herself as fantasy object, but here might
be her own fantasy -- of real acceptance.
-- Chris Willman, Entertainment Weekly 
"Toxic" producers Bloodshy & Avant hit pay
dirt again with the melodic, glowing "Unusual You." The Max
Martin-produced "If U Seek Amy" (say it fast) is a saucy, swinging
standout, and the photographer-taunting stomper "Kill the Lights"
recalls the synth crush of 2007's Blackout.
-- Caryn Ganz, Rolling Stone
A seasoned cast of collaborators including Danja, Bloodshy & Avant,
Guy Sigsworth, and Max Martin ensures that Spears's sixth album hits
all the proper sonic touchstones. The fistful of dance tunes are
fashionably stern, saddled with ominous strut and anonymous throb. But
Britney is a palpable presence here, a flesh-and-blood singer.
-- Joan Anderman, The Boston Globe
...with Spears' sixth studio album, Circus (Jive), the mother of
two exfoliates her grime and convincingly proves why she's finally
ready to cue the curtains and retrieve her spotlight.
-- Tracy Garraud, Vibe
D.Neal said:
Jan 6
The whole album is great..
My favs are Blur nd Shatterd glass
Those would be perfect for 3rd nd 4th singles....
The video would be so hot...
For blur she could be at a part then wake up in a bed wit a guy but they shouldnt sho da guys face den in the end its like as if she was just thinkn that could happen nd so she dont go to the klub/party after all...Then on shatterd glass she kan revive the whole toxic thing...again nd do like a Fairytale thing like shes in hys dreams nd then he wakes up ns shes in bed with hym as if he was dreaming all of it because he feels guilty..Just ideas!!!