Britney Spears has reached an interesting stage in her career in which she’s set to jam pretty much all signals. Sifting through her rise, taking stock of her downfall, charting her recovery—all such exercises are too interlocking with too much at this point to make sense of. So here she is, again—a pop star with a lithe, alien voice that sounds all the more natural in synthetic settings. Spears herself even seems to understand this, if 2007’s Blackout and 2008's Circus—are any indication.
Updated 06/12/2009