Britney Spears - Femme Fatale {Deluxe Edition} (2011) [FLAC] (LogScore-100/cue/cover/tracks)

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Release Date: March 29, 2011
 Label: Jive Records
 Country Of Release: US
 Genre: Pop/Dance
 Tracks: 16
 
 Femme Fatale is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears, released on March 25, 2011. The album was recorded between 2009 and 2011, with frequent collaborators Max Martin and Dr. Luke serving as the project's executive producers. "Hold It Against Me" was released as the lead single from the album, peaking atop of the charts in seven countries, including the United States and Canada. The album's second single, "Till the World Ends", premiered on March 4, 2011 on Ryan Seacrest's radio show and was released the same day. Upon release, Femme Fatale was well-received by most music critics.
 
 Femme Fatale received positive reviews from most music critics.At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 65, based on 21 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone commented that it "may be Britney's best album; certainly it's her strangest".Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine viewed that Spears' presence on the album is overshadowed by its "high-class" production, calling the album "Essentially a cleaner, classier remake of the gaudily dark Blackout [...] a producer’s paradise".Edna Gundersen of USA Today gave the album three out of four stars and wrote that Spears and her producers "have crafted a trendy, infectious and engaging ballad-free batch of electro-pop tunes".Entertainment Weekly's Adam Markovitz called it "a ballad-free, treadmill-ready playlist of tireless dance beats and top-shelf production" and called Spears' vocals as "a confidently corrupt guide to a place where our only worry is whether the beats will end before the sun comes up."Robert Everett-Green of The Globe and Mail gave the album three-and-a-half out of four stars and complimented its "grainy, glistening electronic sound", calling it "one of the major guilty pleasures in pop this year".Kitty Empire of The Observer commented that Spears "has turned out the “fierce dance record” she promised".
 
 However, Andy Gill of The Independent gave the album two out of five stars and criticized its "single-minded dedication to dancefloor utility", writing that it "stays in electro-stomp mode for virtually its entire course, with only the tiniest of rhythmic variants or differences in electronic tones distinguishing one producer's work from another's".Jon Caramanica of The New York Times commented that "much of the music on this album feels flat and redundant, no more invigorating than the average European dance-pop album of five years ago".The Guardian's Alexis Petridis wrote that Spears' "voice is as anonymous as ever, a state of affairs amplified by the lavishing of Auto-Tune".Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot wrote similarly, "Spears allows herself to be treated like another passenger in these rhythm trains".Evan Sawdey of PopMatters wrote that "Spears’ worldview is completely self-contained" and described Femme Fatale as "just a big dumb club album".Chicago Sun-Times writer Thomas Conner complimented its "contemporary sounds and beats", but stated "The trade-off is personality [...] Brit's voice is processed so heavily on this record, and the lyrics so bland, these songs could be sung by anyone".Rich Juzwiak of The Village Voice wrote that her "voice doesn't add much to the conversation", writing that her lack of presence is "problematic for an album whose subject matter is hedonism and how being hot facilitates it".
 
 Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani commented that Spears's lack of involvement makes "the success of a Britney song rest almost entirely on the quality of other people's songwriting and production, and almost every track on Femme Fatale succeeds or fails on that basis".Los Angeles Times writer Carl Wilson noted that "it never invites more intimate listening [...] the lyrics rarely even try to be clever", but praised the "dozen of the age’s most accomplished record producers" and wrote that the album "finds unity of subject, style and sound by imagining scenarios in which vanishing into anonymity can be comfort and liberation".Caryn Ganz of Spin gave the album a seven out of 10 rating and complimented its production, while stating "ignore the lyrics, Spears sounds even more like a programmed Britbot than on 2007's Blackout".Sputnikmusic's Rudy Klapper wrote similarly, "while one can be assured that Spears’ lyrics remain as one-dimensional and cheesy as ever, it’s the sonically varied production work that prevents Femme Fatale from being a one-hit factory with a bunch of electro clones".Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski of The Daily Telegraph gave the album four out of five stars and stated "Despite her weak voice and empty lyrics, [Spears] has placed herself at the avant-garde of pop with this masterful mixture of über-cool dubstep and sugary pop".The A.V. Club's Genevieve Koski stated "While Spears’ vocals are inevitably the least impressive element of any given song, she doesn’t exactly disappear into the production on Femme Fatale; she settles into it, game for whatever and confident in the hands of trusted professionals who know how to best utilize her".
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01. Till The World Ends - 3:58
 02. Hold It Against Me - 3:49
 03. Inside Out - 3:38
 04. I Wanna Go - 3:30
 05. How I Roll - 3:37
 06. (Drop Dead) Beautiful [featuring Sabi] - 3:36
 07. Seal It With a Kiss - 3:26
 08. Big Fat Bass [featuring will.i.am] - 4:45
 09. Trouble For Me - 3:20
 10. Trip To Your Heart - 3:34
 11. Gasoline - 3:08
 12. Criminal - 3:45
 13. Up N’ Down - 3:42
 14. He About To Lose Me - 3:48
 15. Selfish - 3:43
 16. Don't Keep Me Waiting [featuring Travis Barker] - 3:21
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