Five years after releasing the best album of her career, Britney's Blackout album has finally gone platinum. If some of you can remember that far back (since most of us have the attention span of a zit), Britney released Blackout around the time when she had her nervous breakdown and was in no condition to perform or promote. That reality was made apparent when she did that dreadful performance of Gimme More at the VMA's (and the infamous music video where she grinded her used bits on a stripper pole).
Even though she barely promoted the record when it was released, Blackout did enter #2 on the Billboard charts, which I'm sure is due to her hardcore fans purchasing it. But I was shocked to learn that it took almost five years for her to sell one million copies.
I still believe to this day Blackout was her best work, and many of your future pop stars can learn a lot from listening to that record, which I call stripper pop. She began to win a lot of MTV awards when she released her Circus album, but I feel that wasn't her best record. Blackout truly captured the essence of Britney, which was a sexy pop star with inner demons who also loved to fuck. it also gave us the phrase that we would go on using for the rest of Britney's career - It's Britney bitch!
Gimme More
Piece of Me
Break The Ice
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