Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (58/100) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The A.V. Club | (unfavorable) |
| Billboard | (favorable) |
| Entertainment.ie | |
| Entertainment Weekly | C |
| NME | (7/10) |
| PopMatters | |
| Q | |
| Robert Christgau | |
| Rolling Stone | |
Initial critical response to Britney was mixed. According to Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a score of 58, based on 13 reviews.
The album fared well with critics such as Allmusic, who gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars, describing the tracks, and particularly the titles, as "the record where she strives to deepen her persona, making it more adult while still recognizably Britney." In contrast, Rolling Stone said of the album: "Britney belabors the obvious: Spears is one month away from entering her twenties and clearly needs to grow up if she's going to bring her fans along."
In the July 4, 2008 issue of Entertainment Weekly, Britney was listed at number ninety-seven on the list of the 100 best albums from 1983 to 2008.
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