If 2001's Britney was a transitional album, capturing Spears at the point when she wasn't a girl and not yet a woman, its 2003 follow-up, In the Zone, is where she has finally completed that journey and turned into Britney, the Adult Woman. Like her peer Christina Aguilera, Britney equates maturity with transparent sexuality and the pounding sounds of nightclubs, but since she's not as dirty as Xtina, her spin is a little different. Where Christina comes across like a natural-born skank, Britney is the girl next door cutting loose at college, drinking and smoking and dancing and sexing just a little too recklessly, since this is the first time she can indulge herself. And that's what In the Zone is -- Britney indulging herself, desperate to prove that she's an adult. She has been freed from her musical parent, Max Martin, who is absent for the first time from a Spears album, choosing instead to play the field and work with a bunch of different collaborators, including Madonna, Moby, the Matrix, Trixster, Roy "Royalty" Hamilton, Bloodshy & Avant, and R. Kelly. Since she's so determined to be a woman, not a girl, she has completely shed the sugarcoated big hooks and sappy love songs that drove her stardom, concentrating on music that glides by on mellow grooves or hits hard with its hip-hop beats. It's all club-ready, but despite some hints of /p>
eo-electro and the Neptunes, it doesn't quite sound modern -- it sounds like cuts from 1993 or Madonna's Bedtime Stories and Ray of Light. Production-wise, these tracks are not only accomplished but much more varied than any of her previous albums -- in particular, Moby's "Early Mornin'" has a sleek feel, Mark Taylor's "Breathe on Me" is alluring, and the Bloodshy & Avant productions, "Showdown" and "Toxic," are irresistible ear candy in what is surely Britney's most ambitious, adventurous album to date.
--- - |- I went.Britney won 3 time wat? Russel Brand was funny but the crowd was full of performers and presenters who really didn't wanna be there and gave him no energy to work off of. Most of all. lol wat? red foxxxworth is so juiced billy won Either way KATY PERRY FTW ALL DAY EVERYDAY! ~~- Britney Spears
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Straight from the pages ....er make that web site Jam!, be prepared to lose your dinner.Us Weekly reports that the soon-to-be divorced pop star was spotted Wednesday dishing out $3,200 for new dog at L.A.'s Pets of Bel Air. After some deliberation, Spears settled on a "tea-cup apple head Chihuahua," which she has since named Snow White. The new pup joins other illustrious names on the list of ...
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Straight from the pages ....er make that web site Jam!, be prepared to lose your dinner.Us Weekly reports that the soon-to-be divorced pop star was spotted Wednesday dishing out $3,200 for new dog at L.A.'s Pets of Bel Air. After some deliberation, Spears settled on a "tea-cup apple head Chihuahua," which she has since named Snow White. The new pup joins other illustrious names on the list of ...
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In all the static about Britney this weekend that brushed by me, the only place I've read any truly sympathetic mention of her well being is "Good's Mog":http://mog.com/Good/blog_post/46071. I'm a 3rd rate psychologist, but it seems pretty obvious to me that Ms. Spears-Federline is upping the ante on not coming back. On one level, that means no come back for her muscial career which, despite th...
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--- - |- I went.Britney won 3 time wat? Russel Brand was funny but the crowd was full of performers and presenters who really didn't wanna be there and gave him no energy to work off of. Most of all. lol wat? red foxxxworth is so juiced billy won Either way KATY PERRY FTW ALL DAY EVERYDAY! ~~- Britney Spears
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Me Against the Music |
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| 2 (I Got That) Boom Boom |
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| 3 Showdown |
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| 4 Breathe on Me |
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| 5 Early Mornin' |
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| 6 Toxic |
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| 7 Outrageous |
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| 8 Touch of My Hand |
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| 9 The Hook Up |
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| 10 Shadow |
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| 11 Brave New Girl |
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| 12 Everytime |
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| 13 Me Against the Music [Rishi Rich's Desi Kulcha Remix] |
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