Album Review – Britney – Femme Fatale

FACT – Britney is one of our favorite pop stars at SCP HQ

FACT- Blackout is STILL one of the most underrated and superb pop albums released.

FACT – Femme Fatale is BRILLIANT!

We have been listening to the new album these last few days and can honest says it is POP-TASTIC! Firstly, there are no ballads! Great! The ballads sometimes let you down Brit (well apart from Everytime) and we are glad you have just thrown everything at this album in a full dance/pop way. It was what we were expecting Circus to be, but a million times better!
Hang on readers, before you all go all crazy on our ass for calling it crap, we’re not! Circus was great, for a comeback album, but we felt it was great for the first 7 tracks then just started to decline from there! You may not agree but that was our opinion ( and don't get us started on the Circus Tour! Grrrrrr!!!)

We digress...

THIS album is pure dance Ibiza pop! It seems to be injected full of electro dance beats! We are not sure if Britney has ever been to Ibiza, but its full of techno builds, house pianos and phat beats! This album is definitely influenced by a euro-pop/club music vibe that we have not seen from this Louisiana girl before. The first two tracks released Hold It Against Me and Till The World End are only just a sample of the many great tracks that are on this album and set the tone for the rest of the album.

Till The World Ends, was written by Ke$ha and was written with one thing in mind, to be a dance floor anthem. It has all those elements that make you want to be out dancing until the world ends, infectious fun thumping beats, lo-fi fade in and outs, stuttering vocals and techno builds! Pass us the poppers now! 

The brilliant hands in the air, high energy I Wanna Go has pulsating beats and a get in your head, infectious whistling sample, similar to than found on Bob Sinclair’s Love Generation.

Inside Out, about a bad relationship you know should end but the sex is just too good to lose, (Yep know that one Brit!) has single written over it! Not only for its catchy beat but for just seeing "hit me one more time" written into the song!

How I Roll is a bouncy playful slower paced track lending great to Britney’s vocals and Trip to Your Heart has sugary melody vs. a techno/trance club beat.

The only song cringe worthy song on the album is Criminal as does not fit at all, but we are willing to forgive Britney due to the other hits on the album.

Even Rolling Stone Magazine gave it a 4/5 stars stating “Femme Fatale may be Britney's best album; certainly it's her strangest”

Spears says, “I think ‘Femme Fatale’ speaks for itself… I wanted to make a fierce dance album where each song makes you want to get up and move…”

Produced by Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Billboard & will.i.am to name but a few, this collaboration has certainly worked and we can only salute you Brit, for bring us an album that will be playing loud and proud in the SCP HQ office for a long time to come.

We needed this album Britney. You needed this album reader. 
Pop music needed this album.

We don’t care what the critics are saying Britney, what do they know?!?!
 It’s POP with edge! 
Top of the pop class for you my dear!

Right, we are off clubbing now


We’ll leave you with pic’s from her Good Morning America performance this morning. The pop star sang singles Hold It Against Me, Big Fat Bass, alongside Will.i.am., and Till the World Ends