This album is a strange phenomenon ...

... Because: At first hearing Britney's comeback attempt appears Unfortunately cool, overproduced, soulless. One finds in "Blackout" Although not quite find fault, but is happening initially difficult with this extreme change for electronically cool fashion sound. Because of this I have the album after the first listen first of all do not want to buy.

So much is betrayed but this here just is not as much as the mainstream brand "Britney Spears" it suggests for some. Rather, an album with "Blackout" succeeded on that you have to only (without prejudice) involved. For me this happened when I got the CD surprising given. - One must not love Britney to on songs like "Ooh ooh baby" to (a catchy original feel-good hit) hardly come over ... Also, "radar", "Hot as Ice" and of course the current single " Break the ice ", although of significantly colder, technisierterer mood worn as it was used to in the old Max Martin-Sweden-pop times. But actually affects just this extremely positive on the album: So you need while significantly longer to gain access to the songs to find, for they then act but the longer. The typical annoying intrusiveness that unfolds many a catchy radio-pop too quickly, immersed in "Blackout" is not on. So is Miss Spears (or their producers ...) a surprisingly durable Album succeeded - even one of the few that can actually still can hear by the 20th time in one piece, while still discovered something new about it.

From them: there were not so many people directed their musical tastes only after a popular mass opinion and thus reject the songs of Britney alone for image reasons, would have unique hits like "Gimme more" quite sure what it takes to Dacefloor Firecracker last year had.