You may have heard that Britney Spears is back – and for once ‘back’ doesn’t mean ‘back sobbing on a pavement with no knickers on’.
Britney Spears is actually back. Back doing singing and dancing an dancing and stuff. As we recently reported, the new Britney Spears album Circus will be released in December. But it’s going to be preceded by a single called Womanizer, and that single’s been leaked, and we’ve got it here.
So does Womanizer mark Britney Spears’ stunning return to cultural relevancy? It’s actually hard to tell, because the leaked version is 38 seconds long and sounds like it was recorded from a mobile phone onto another mobile phone in a tin bucket full of jelly down a well in space. But we’ll just assume that it doesn’t, anyway. We’re bastards like that.
The most exciting thing about having Britney Spears back isn’t that she gets to wear nice clothes again or that we don’t have to start each story about her with the phrase ‘Troubled pop starlet Britney Spears’, but that we’ll finally get to hear Britney’s take on the year she’s just had.
Britney Spears has always managed to pass comment on her life in song – whether in Lucky, where Britney wryly commented on the pressures of fame; Piece Of Me, where Britney wryly attributed part of her meltdown to the prevalent tabloid celebrity culture of the day; or I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman, where Britney wryly commented on what we assume to be her tattered hymen.
And since the new Britney Spears album is called Circus, we can safely assume that it’ll be a no-holds barred account of the swirling mayhem that’s engulfed her life over the last 12 months. Since that’s included a stay in a mental asylum and losing custody of her own children, we’re bracing ourselves for a gruelling, emotionally stark journey.
And that much is clear on the first single from Circus, entitled Womanizer. Thanks to a DJ in Nashville who played 40 seconds of the song while it was still officially embargoed and got suspended for it, leaked snatches of Britney Spears’ Womanizer are all over the internet, allowing us all to hear Britney’s eloquent description of her own harrowing personal nadir ahead of its release. It’s a bruising listen, so be warned…
You can really hear Britney’s anguish in every single one of her tinny, barely audible “ooh ooh ooh ah-ah-ah”s, can’t you? It’s tragic, really. The personal turmoil really shines through in the way she seems to have just ripped off that Katy Perry song. We’re in bits. Honestly we are.
But still, on a brighter note the artwork for Womanizer by Britney Spears has got a snake in it. Hopefully that means that every single from Circus will reflect each of Britney’s most memorable MTV VMA appearances. First Womanizer has a snake in it, then the second single will feature Britney Spears getting off with an old lady. And the third one will have a dumpy homeless man in a wig and a bikini stumbling around like he doesn’t know what’s going on. Ace.
Julian Mentat says
Good for Britney! She’s gone a long, long way in the music business for a person who doesn’t sing very well.
Christina Aguilera, you only got a singing career because of your singing! Yes, we know what you’ve been doing! And in the pop business, singing is like cheating. Because it ends in -ing.
joe mm says
The more successful Britney is,the more some losers will bash her.
She’s as beautiful as ever and will continue her career just fine.
Sarah says
“…sounds like it was recorded from a mobile phone onto another mobile phone in a tin bucket full of jelly down a well in space.”
nice one.