Britney Jean: The Reviews Are In
The reviews for Britney's album, Britney Jean are in and her fans couldn't be more pleased with her most personal album yet.
"Even though we're in the middle of a pop-princess pileup this winter, with Miley, Katy, Gaga and more elbowing for room on the dance floor, Britney remains the queen who out-bangs, out-booms, out-bizarres them all," Rob Sheffield writes in Rolling Stone.
"Even now, just about to celebrate her 32nd birthday, Britney Spears remains as enigmatic as the Disney-groomed, emotionally insulated teen who greeted us in the late '90s ... But in just 10 tidy songs, [Britney Jean] brings us closer than ever before to that distant dreamer," Nick Catucci writes in his review for Entertainment Weekly.
"Spears' eighth album is a transitional record, just like her third album. But whereas 2001's "Britney" found Spears -- no longer a girl, but not yet a woman -- feeling her way toward adulthood and the candid sexuality of club life, "Britney Jean," her first album released in her thirties, is a subtle shift away from frantic bangers and into more forthright songwriting." Jason Lipshutz writes in Billboard.