Blackout By Britney Spears Views

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Blackout is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears, released by Jive Records on October 26, 2007. Spears began working on this album as early as February 2006, exploring into electropop, synthpop and techno. The album has a more R&B/urban sound and recording with new producers such as Danja. Blackout was her first studio album in four years since 2003's In the Zone[1] and is the first time Spears is the executive producer of one of her albums. The album's title refers to blacking out negativity and embracing life fully .[2] The songs on the album are thematically focused on sex, love and Spears' relationship–struggle with the media.[3]

Spears eventually embarked on her The Circus Starring Britney Spears world tour on March 3, 2009, which included performances of Piece of Me , Radar , Ooh Ooh Baby , Hot as Ice Freakshow and Get Naked (I Got a Plan) . The LAZRtag remix of Gimme More was used during the Martial Arts Segue part of the show. Break the Ice was used in a video interlude set to Spears' music videos and using a sample of Kat DeLuna's Run the Show .[29][30]

If you believe Brendan Behan's line about all publicity being good publicity, then Britney Spears' fifth album may well be the best-promoted release in pop history. By contrast with poor old Britney, everything in Amy Winehouse's world is going just swimmingly. We'll be here all day if we go into detail, but suffice to say the salient points involve three visits to rehab in the space of five weeks, shaving her head, losing custody of her children, being ordered to undergo twice-weekly random drug testing, a disastrous comeback appearance at the MTV Awards, a raft of motoring offences and being voted the World's Worst Celebrity Role Model Parent.

And that, ultimately, may prove Blackout's big problem. It arrives alongside the latest Britney updates in the celebrity mags, variously claiming that the singer has applied for a job as a night manager in a hotel bar, been spotted ranting incoherently and singing Santa Claus Is Coming to Town to a dog dressed in a Christmas outfit, and been subject to an intervention by her family. It's a bold, exciting album: the question is whether anyone will be able to hear its contents over the deafening roar of tittle-tattle.