Oops! She did it Again and Again and Again.

Even a hardcore fan would sense deja vu .

Just as we thought her 2 consecutive 'comebacks' (great marketing ploy there) with 'Blackout' and 'Circus' were not enough a massive onslaught to her industry rivals, she launched yet another album mere months after the mentioned two.

You can see this girl is getting serious in maintaining her chart dominance ( and continue to make enough money to feed several third world nations or just the USA).

It's her second greatest hits album.

'My Prerogative' was a big one.

Then now, to celebrate her 10th anniversary (betchu didn't see that coming did you) in the messy world of the music business, she launched , just time for the holiday season shopping climate,

Britney: The Singles Collection.

It starts off with a bang with '3' her surprise Billboard chart #1-hit debut.
(Just how did she managed that coup?!)

Then followed by a slew of her past singles arranged in chronological order.

Clearly , Jive records wants to milk her worth and rival her with Madonna's Celebration album .

God bless Britney. She's selling out faster than hot toast.

She's not a girl. But an old woman now.

Metaphorically speaking.

Q

Britney: Black-ing Out le Competizion

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. :-)

M-O-R-E is good:-)

Come-back Pop Princess Britney (now with two estranged kids in tow) is quite apparently on top of her game once more.

>Nver mind the stiff competition from the likes of Aguilera, Rihanna and Beyonce.

>>Never mind the tatoos and shaven head fiasco.

>>>Never mind the messy divorce.

>>>>Never mind that Britney is hiding behind a corset...

>>>>>Never mind that her kids are motherless... and K-Fed is runing for Father of the Year.

From her upcoming album out later this year, 'Black Out', 'Gimme More' is Spears's highest peaking single in the United States since "...Baby One More Time", having reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100.

It is a tough feat to match her pre-podgy sexual-nymph days when her first 4 albums created history by having each debuting at #1 .... (1) 'Baby One More Time', (2) 'Opps! I did it again', (3) 'Britney' and (4) 'In The Zone' .

And then her mega seller greatest hits album (5) 'My Prerogative'.

But of course, let's not talk too much about her remix album (6) 'B In the Mix' which bombed.

Well, 'Gimme More' is topping charts all over the world and 'less you've been orbiting in space somewhere, you'd have sampled the song somehow and somewhere (illegally or otherwise).

At this rate, 'Gimme More' could well be come as successful as the #1 hit 'Baby One More Time' (Britney's one n onli) , 'I'm a Slave 4 U' (Critically aclaimed and which many felt was what prolonged her teeny bopper career), 'Everytime' and 'Toxic' (Spear's only Grammy Award winning song).

Baby one MORE time? Indeed. Gimme MORE.