The Boston Globe - GLORY Review (Positive!)

[GirlOnTheMoon]

This was a good read! 

 https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2016/08/24/untethered-from-big-hit-expectations-britney-spears-sounds-like-she-having-fun-her-new/fSkkxDxDBgPo3O77joGLeL/story.html

Highlights:

- And that doesn’t even take into account the redemption-minded pieces that have accompanied her post-2010 existence, which includes probably the crowning achievement for any American pop star: a Las Vegas residency, “Britney: Piece of Me,” which has been packing the Planet Hollywood Casino’s Axis Auditorium since late 2013.

- Britney the pop star — defined by a snake-slither voice, always-on sexiness, and ability to stretch vowels far beyond their natural breaking point — has fronted a series of dynamite singles that both inadvertently and deliberately mirrored the themes of post-millennial pop.

- Now, there’s “Glory,” Spears’s ninth album and first since 2013’s will.i.am-produced “Britney Jean.” The new album, released on Aug. 26, succeeds where its predecessor stumbled, song-wise: It sounds relatively unencumbered by expectations, the result, perhaps, of “Britney Jean” making a soft landing on the charts and on radio. While there are saps to relatively current trends — “Love Me Down” has her mimicking former duet partner Iggy Azalea by way of Fergie’s pout, “Slumber Party” backs Spears’s coos with a gentle reggae-inspired beat, and the slow seduction “Make Me” features white rapper of the moment G-Eazy — most of “Glory” operates in its own pop space.

- If it had been unearthed from a time capsule, “Glory” would feel more like a credible companion album to Spears’s 2003 album, “In the Zone,” which spawned “Toxic” and Spears’s torch-passing duet with Madonna, “Me Against the Music,” than a pop superstar’s major release in 2016. 

- But more importantly, the album has an unbridled energy that’s refreshing in late summer 2016, when pop-radio playlists are dominated by a hungover malaise where interactions are guarded, and potential romantic partnerships viewed skeptically at best, or as transactions in the making at worst. 

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That was fun,” Spears shrugs at the latter song’s end. One could say the same about “Glory,” a pop album that operates on its own terms, partly thanks to the way the white-hot notoriety of the star at its center allowed her to, after all these years, rule her own pop fiefdom.

Britney Spears performs on the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 28 at 8 p.m.

[RaphaelCA]

I'm so proud of her! 

 

(I haven't listened to any leaks! These reviews are killing me!)

[shap_half]

This my favorite review yet not only because it's largely positive, but I think because it's the first review that actually understands the album. 

[Guest]

Where is the point? 

[glorytotheworld]

 

This my favorite review yet not only because it's largely positive, but I think because it's the first review that actually understands the album. 

 

 

Where is the point? 

 

They are low-key praising her for her originality/kookiness and how she makes pop music on her own terms for others to follow (And try harder)

 

 

 

[Puppy]

Im glad they get it just like when Rolling Stone said in an article before about how her music over the years seems to continue to stray away from the pop territory and gets weirder.She's not about being political or use her music as a soapbox and thats whats annoying about the other reviews that they come off as narrow minded and pretentious. There are many legends in the past that made fun songs.