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‘Femme Fatale’ the newest album from Britney Spears falls down the moral values staircase
June 20, 2011
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Britney’s objectification—in which she is a more-than-willing participant—is
breathtakingly sad. With each successive album, she’s not only not a girl, not quite a woman, but less and less recognizable even as a real human being. Like Marilyn Monroe before her, Britney has allowed those shaping her life, image and career to squeeze her into an increasingly narrow niche, so narrow at this point that she’s not even allowed to sing about romance anymore. “Whoever said beauty’s on the inside is a liar,” she tells us cynically on “(Drop Dead) Beautiful.” All that’s left, apparently, is compulsive, soulless sex.
Entertainment Weekly reviewer Adam Markovit put it this way: “Femme Fatale [is] jarring on a lyrical level. Judging by surveillance records from the tabloid panopticon, Spears is a workaday mom who likes buying off the sale rack at Walmart and going to Little League games with her kids. Judging by these songs, she’s a childless man-eater who could drink Ke$ha under the table.”
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