Brit Brit's 'comeback' on 2007's Blackout and it's 2008 follow-up Circus, never quite followed through on the promise to return the former pop princess to her rightful place atop the pop charts. It looked as if it the languishing lead single 'Hold It Against Me' (the album's worst track) put the nail in that coffin, but Femme Fatale in its finer moments resurrects Spears to her former glory.
Britney's at her best when turning out weird, tricked out pop tunes. (Thank her superstar team of producers for that) Her lackluster vocals, auto-tuned, spliced, and twisted over electronic-pop jams that when on point rival hits like 'Toxic' or 'Hit Me Baby One More Time'. The unapologetic preppy electro-pop of 'How I Roll', the dubbed grind of 'Inside Out' to the trumped up synth beats of 'I Wanna Go' Spears meets the challenge. While 'Trip To Your Heart' or her flatline lead single have loose footing, there are brief glimpses of the 'femme fatale' of the 'Ooops!...I Did It Again' days gone by.
Femme Fatale is classic Spears with her musical direction plotted by her producers and vocals stitched together for fluffy, sugar-coated modern electro-pop that's packaged to perfection. It does exactly what it's designed for; making people want to dance and sing along to bombastic pop tunes. Britney is all but a hollowed out, former pop entertainer on autopilot and that's how we like it, our pop sleek and our pop stars as train wrecks.
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