Britney Spears once received an extraordinary accolade from the UK’s highly respected top broadsheet newspaper the Daily Telegraph: “Amid all the fretting and frothing about her sanity…it’s easy to forget Britney’s pop brilliance. Sweeter-voiced than Beyoncé, Christina and Pink, she has had a string of classics to put the pretenders…
All of us, as fans, can look back over the years since Britney Spears first impacted on our lives, and see very clearly a whole set of milestones – key events that drew us closer and closer to Britney, the person and the star. If we think a little harder,…
In these days of Glory it’s an oft-expressed opinion that Britney’s best album – so far – was actually In The Zone. But back then, when Britney entered that Zone, it was an oft-expressed opinion that her best album was Britney. And back when she was no longer a girl,…
Before we begin our consideration of Britney the songwriter, there are two side-issues we need to address. One – can a singer only be regarded as an “artist” if he or she writes his or her own material? Two – is it even true that Britney writes less of her…
The Noisey website’s Lauren O’Neill in a new article about her Britney stanship describes her heroine’s voice thus: On “…Baby, One More Time,” Britney Spears sings as though she’s chewing a piece of toffee or a soft pillow of bubblegum too large for her mouth. Her Louisiana twang drips with…
Picture my conversation with my friend Daisy: “I’m planning a Britney article called 100 Ways To Say The Word ‘Baby’!” “But do you actually HAVE 100 ways?” “I was going to exaggerate and lie…” “But wouldn’t that undermine the integrity of your article?” “Uhhhhhhh…. Yes, but a full article on…
Britney Spears has been well served by her principal biographies by Sean Smith and Steve Dennis (both to be reviewed on this site) who clearly found her a fascinating and sympathetic subject. Although it was published as long ago as 2008, I’m reviewing Christopher Heard’s version for the sake of…
It’s true. I haven’t written anything about Britney for ages. There seemed to be nothing to say, as she was economically inactive. It’s been like that for a long time. So much so that I was wondering if she had in fact retired. Ironically, I was just about to post…
So you’re probably wondering where the hell is Karen, what the hell happened to the site and who the hell am I? Well, first things first: this is all my fault. Hi, my name is Ale and I am the “owner” of this website. When I say that I mean…