Rolling Stone ranks every Britney Spears song

[Isla]

5 hours ago, Jaime Jean said:

There’s an obsession with this song? I’m out of the loop I guess. 

There's been a lot of critics/music publications publishing rankings of Britney's discography lately, they all seem to put How I Roll in the top 40.

[Almost Mystical]

35 minutes ago, GODNA IS A QUEEN said:

Do better, Rolling Stone. This is literally embarrassing for you.

This is the only accurate Top 10:

1. Toxic
2. Overprotected 
3. Breathe On Me
4. Oops!… I Did It Again
5. …Baby One More Time
6. Lonely
7. Gimme More
8. I’m a Slave 4 U 
9. Lucky
10. Stronger

Argue with the wall.

You’re a flop for ranking Overprotected higher than Gimme More. 

[DignifiedLove]

10 minutes ago, Almost Mystical said:

You’re a flop for ranking Overprotected higher than Gimme More. 

Why? Overprotected is a solidly crafted pop song and one of, if not her best which perfectly captures that signature Britney sound. The production, both the original and Darkchild Mix, is chilling. Gimme More is a brilliant pop song too.

[KrisJ]

Horrific list !! Lmao. Seeing “Love Me Down”, “I run away”, “before the goodbye” so low - yeah no thanks. And the HORRID “how I roll” number 3? 
The only thing they got right was chillin’ with Lou the worst 

[DignifiedLove]

38 minutes ago, Yasux34 said:

Before The Goodbye ranked 156?! HELL NO  this list is not correct done.

Maybe if the producers of that song didn’t leave it unfinished and not left out a bridge. Britney Jean tease.  

But yes I agree, it’s still too low.

 

[Charrrmed89]

Lmao at Chilling with you being the last 🤣🤣

I think that's something we all can agree on, it should be the last but the rest of the list is wack.

[ElenaB]

I’m sorry but how I roll third? Like wtf it has to be some inner joke putting it above gimme more like what’s wrong with you people dreaming of the day a Britney stan becomes a music critic tbh

[Stefani]

I swear they do this literally every few months. How many rankings of Britney bops can you do with the same songs over and over again?

Kudos to them for recognizing that Chillin' With Lou is absolute trash though.

[Million Billion]

7 hours ago, PokemonSpears said:

I can tolerate the unoriginal slander for E-Mail My Heart and the likes, but TRIP TO YOUR HEART???

Which of you Exhalers wrote this list? 

Trip To Your Heart is a sweet catchy and upbeat ballad. I wont allow any type of shade to this beautiful track on this forum. 

 

 

JK, it's a good song but ofc she has better tracks

[PokemonSpears]

7 hours ago, Stannedforever said:

It's not that I can't respect other peoples opinions, but this list must be made by a robot 

From the moment they write Chillin' with U and not the correct form, Chillin' with You, but most importantly, If You Seek Amy instead of If U Seek Amy, you know that that person's opinions have no validity 

[Oxic]

This writer is sassy af lmao

A controversial song for sure — many Britney fans would rank it at the absolute bottom. “Private Show” might seem like a dippy tune about humping a ******** pole, but it’s so much more: It’s her Black Mirror episode. She thinks she’s sharing an intimate lap-dance moment with her guy, begging him to close the curtains — until she notices there’s an audience eyeballing her. For Britney, that’s real life as she knows it. Her private show is public property. (As she told Entertainment Tonight, “‘Private Show’ is inevitably a **** song and it promotes feeling **** and girls feeling alive, and I think that’s fun for girls.”) The fact that the single really was a private show — i.e., nobody bought it, played it on the radio, or even noticed it came out — just adds to the mise en scene.

Britney teams up with Sia for a strange torch ballad about a love triangle — she anoints her man’s naked body with her own distinctive aroma so that the other chick can smell the Britney on him. Like “Jolene,” it’s a triangle where the real action is between the ladies, with the dude as a mere conduit. What kind of scent was she smearing on this guy? Probably it’s her signature fragrance, Cosmic Radiance. Or maybe Fantasy Twist? Curious: In Control? She’s got a lot of fragrances.

[Oxic]

ow is it possible this is her only Christmas song? It’s an outrage, considering that NSync got their own Home for Christmas album, complete with Justin singing “I Never Knew the Meaning of Christmas” (until he met Britney). “My Only Wish (This Year)” was the leadoff track on the Jive sampler Platinum Christmas, which also had the Backstreet Boys, TLC, and the Dave Matthews Band. Britney writes a letter to Santa, asking him to leave a boyfriend under her Christmas tree: “I can’t be alone under the mistletoe/He’s all I want in a big red bow!” Like all men in Britney’s life, Santa disappoints her.

[femmepop]

some of these entries are an eyeroll.

It's 2022 and this guy still thinks she says "kitty kitty" on " I'm Slave 4 U". He also makes that same mistake in his original review of the song in 2001.

However, I think it's cool of him to include some of the lesser know and unreleased tracks, which we all know are some of her best...

 

[Slave4Godney350]

Some of the descrptions are hilarious

 

[autumngoodbye91]

E-mail my heart #168? Like I know it's not her best song but it's way too cute to be that low on the list

What It’s Like to Be Me on #163????? Girl.............

Before the Goodbye on #156

they're calling Shadow a "a wretched Matrix ballad" what is going onnn with this list

(Someday) I Will Understand on #146 I'm gonna stop reading before my head explodes

what clown made this list lmao

 

[Almost Mystical]

Looking at how strong the reactions here in exhale, I guess it just show how beloved Britney is as an artist. I’m so proud of you guys. 

[Mmdellavecchia]

First and last position we can agree. I agree as well with pretty girls, Britney jean as a whole Ranking low but writer disses some Britney era songs I love (when I found you, before the goodbye, let me be). 

[osu24]

Alien is too high on the list

 

How I Roll is THAT girl to the critics and I don't get it but they are always giving it it's flowers. Rolling Stone also named it the best pop song of 2011 

 

[levxy]

10 hours ago, Sebi said:

How I roll 3rd? WTF. This ranking is a joke

 It is 3rd in the worst songs ranking wth were they on.

[joe sp]

A mess!

#JusticeForChillingWithU