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Strawberry Jam
03-02-2004, 11:15 PM
They've finally got round to reviewing In The Zone. Slightly disappointing though, I was expecting more venom.

http://www.pluggedinonline.com/index.cfm (Plugged In)

Britney Spears - In The Zone

Pro-Social Content

Earnest songs call for relational transparency (“Shadow”) and reconciliation (“Everytime”).

Objectionable Content

Spears calls “Touch of My Hand” an ode to female masturbation, telling US magazine that women should “make themselves happy” and then let their partners “kind of follow up.” “Me Against the Music” finds her reconnecting with Madonna (after their salacious kiss at MTV’s Video Music Awards), this time in a duet about rabid dancing. The line between dancing and intercourse is blurred (“The Hook Up”), and a woman earns the title “Brave New Girl” for picking up a stranger for a fling in a motel room (“Her M.O.’s changed/She don’t wanna behave/Ain’t it good to be a brave girl tonight”). Spears flirts with a prospective partner on “(I Got That)Boom Boom.” Heated ogling, touching and undressing prefaces a sexual “Showdown.” She describes other forms of intimacy on “Toxic,” “Breathe on Me” and “Early Mornin’” (which features a hard-to-recall late-night rendezvous that leaves the singer “passed out”). Mild profanities and racy CD photos add to the problems.

Summary Advisory

Spears’ sleazy slide continues. With each new release she gets more irresponsible, immoral and blatantly sexual. Steer teens away from this Zone.

ursaminorjim
03-02-2004, 11:22 PM
Rabid dancing.

Agnetha
03-02-2004, 11:23 PM
Shit dancing would be more suitable...

Evie
03-02-2004, 11:26 PM
I LOVE how hooking up with Madonna even is objectionable...

Strawberry Jam
03-02-2004, 11:28 PM
Originally posted by Evie
I LOVE how hooking up with Madonna even is objectionable...

To be fair, I objected to that too...

Alex
06-03-2006, 11:26 PM
From Mag to Web
FEB. 2006
Pro-Social Content
"Timor" chastises a nation built on justice that worries more about conspicuous consumption than the world's problems. Cuts imply that life should be an adventure ("Dreams for Plans") and that vain superficiality is a dead end ("Animal City"). A jilted lover confidently moves forward ("Don't Bother"). On "The Day and the Time" a woman tells her partner that they should put a mistake in the past and start fresh. However ...

Objectionable Content
... It's a request to develop amnesia, not work through the offense. "Something" cherishes a physical relationship "even if we never marry." Suggestive lines ("I'd like to be the owner of the zipper on your jeans") and mild profanities ("d--n," "b--ch") mar several tunes. "Costume Makes the Clown" finds a cheater rationalizing her infidelity. "How Do You Do" irreverently questions God's justice and holiness ("Are you some kind of freak who lives to raise the ones who fall? ... You've made mistakes, well that's OK, 'cause we all have"). Also, a very immodest CD photo.

Summary Advisory
This Latin Artist of the Year sounds less like Selena and more like Alanis Morissette on her second English-language crossover disc. Oral Fixation Vol. 2 has lyrical problems. Her racy, sexualized image (photo shoots, music videos) only makes matters worse.


http://www.pluggedinonline.com/images/reviews/2516.jpg :D

Rhythmbandit
06-03-2006, 11:28 PM
Pluggedinonline is GREAT. I check it out every week for movie reviews and every month for new albums. Its COMEDY.