Disposable Pop Trash

Honestly the only good tracks are Toxic & I'm a Slave 4U. The rest is junk. To have a greatest hits this early in the game is ridiculuous. That's why "greatest" cannot apply, also for the fact that the songs stink. To compare her to Madonna is even worse. The problem with Britney is that she a manufactured paper doll. She's cute, but her vocal are severely weak. Like Janet Jackson, she mumbles most of her lyrics and is extremely nasal. It's hard to see any sincerity in her music since most of it is written and produced by factories.



As much as I love Madonna's music, she does not make the weak "Me Against the Music" any better. Making alliance with this girl can only hurt Madonna's career.



Maybe the greatest hits package is the final chapter in her less than impressive "career". Let's hope she makes a better mother than a singer.

From teenage sensation to icon of pop-culture

The bestselling artist in the 21st century Britney Spears summarizes with this collection first six years of her outstanding career and shows her story from teenage sensation to icon of pop-culture. She starded with simple catchy pop songs which were written for her just to be hits, but in the 21st century she was converted to less commercial r'n'b and club music instead of selling incredible amount of records and above all she started to write her own songs. This album is a certificate of evolution from manufactured teen idol to professional artist.



Spears has as many fans as anti-fans, so there are varied opinions about her music. But we must to admit that facts are on Spears' side, because her music achieved not only commercial success with 60 million sold albums and almost twenty hits all over the world, but above all artistic with numerous nominations to the most prestigious music awards including Grammy. And no words can take it back from her. It's simply high quality pop music, that's all. Isn't it ridiculous that such innocent music causes so much anger or even hate in some people? Thanks to this strange mystery these people make Spears' music uncommon in some way.



Spears with all these hits took over the throne from Queen of Pop Madonna and Queen of R'n'B Janet Jackson. That's why she sold much more records during her career than Madonna and Janet put together in the same period of time! And such hits like: "...Baby One More Time", "Oops...I Did It Again", "I'm A Slave 4 U" or "Toxic" are classics in history of pop music already.



Unfortunately this is a US edition of this set, which means the poorest one. It has only 17 songs (14 international hits and 3 brand new tunes), because it omits these two hits from standard international version of this album, which were released on singles only overseas "Born To Make You Happy" and "I Love Rock'n'Roll". But why Britney's record company didn't put here a million-seller US hit "From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart" and chose little hit "Outrageous" instead of much bigger "Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know". There is also a special edition of this album where you can find a bonus CD with 6 very interesting remixes, but without "Megamix" of Britney's biggest hits, which is available on other editions.



Like you see it's better to buy the most expanded version of this album, which contains 20 songs (with both non-US singles and "Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know" as well) and which is also available in special version with bonus CD with all 6 remixes + mentioned "Megamix".



And it's only beginning...

Great music by the pop icon herself.

I know her voice isn't the greatest but the mixing & production of these tunes is nothing short of outstanding. I also know there are detractors who say she just relies on her body to make money. Yet, they fail to mention that she did in just 6 years what no female solo artist since Madonna's heyday in the 1980s has done; that is go from a new artist with a great debut album to cultural superstar.

Her 3 new tunes are all great, My Prerogative is a great opener, I've Just Begun is a nice addition that holds its own against some of the legendary female artists around, & Do Somethin' is a great closer with a beat that is solid.

The real strength here is the material amassed in such a span

of time. Baby One More Time, Oops! I Did It Again, Stronger, Lucky & Everytime are all very solid tunes that're what carries the album & shows off her musical skills. The tracks aren't in chronological order, but that's okay because there's so many good tunes here that it doesn't matter that much to me. The musical quality of these tunes is nothing short of great on each one & the production & mixing are really solid & keep the album sounding so good.

I'd like to have seen Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know & From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart make the cut as well, but this is still a very solid & tight greatest hits package that I've not seen a female solo artist pull off since Maddona's wonderful The Immaculate Collection was done. I don't know about the quality of the 6 bonus tracks as I've only got the standard 17-track disc.