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"Alien
Britney goes indie with out of this world pop ballad; an open love letter to her fans.
The leak of Britney's new William Orbit produced track is the stuff of pop music folklore; telling a story of redemption for pop's most reviled and troubled princess. Serving as a palimpsest of a career that's been constantly on the front-line of electro-dance - Spears' takes her new introspective club sound to glittering new heights with a mid-tempo number that sheds her of the superficial pop artifice that she's known for and finds her channeling her inner muse for one of the most deeply affecting moments in her career.
Alien is another unexpectedly potent and empowering piece of pop from her upcoming eighth studio album - as powerful a message of hope as it is the first song of Britney's career that feels like a legitimate make over and starting point for her bid as an artist. What gives it credibility, beyond the simple fact that she shares a co-writing credit, is that, it, unlike other female pop star make overs in recent years, goes beyond aesthetic. Its' beyond a stylistic shift and/or self-conscious effort to appear wise beyond her years and she hasn't adopted a new religion or subsequently decided to take up performance art for good measure to give the sound weight. Instead her life experience has informed the sound, mood and lyrical content.
Britney's personal troubles have long since been the focal topic of discussion with her music and 'Alien' is the sound of her accepting her image implosion as a badge of honor. It's her first real message of self-acceptance to audiences. She sounds like the world weary survivor and vulnerable heroine she explored in the underrated 'Unusual You' - 'The stars in the sky/Look like home...And the light in your eyes/Let me know/I'm not alone" she sings undoubtedly to her family, friends and even her detractors - letting them know they aren't the only ones with dysfunction, secrets and sadness. Her loneliness isn't killing her no more; and with music like this, neither is ours.
**** out ****"
