The Independent names Blackout as the third most underrated album in history.

[PerfectLover.]

The 20 most underrated albums ever

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Vast swathes of our favourite records have somehow been passed over, unfairly dismissed or left to languish unjustly in the critical...

“It’s Britney, *****.” Few music moments are as thrilling as Spears’s opening salvo on her defiant 2007 album, Blackout, which turned a series of personal (and highly publicised) issues into one of her greatest works.

The beats are dark and edgy, speaking to the muddied, hedonistic and gossip-ridden times. Spears herself often sounds bored, or mocking, as she rolls her eyes at her detractors.

“I’m Mrs Lifestyles of the rich and famous,” she sings on “Piece of Me”... “I’m Mrs ‘oh my God that Britney’s shameless’/ I’m Mrs Extra! Extra! This just in/ I’m Mrs she’s too big now she’s too thin.”

Those icy beats and glitchy synths would inspire generations of future-leaning pop stars in the decades to come. Bravo.

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Underrated to the GP, bc I play it religiously.