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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great music; largely unnecessary collection, November 10, 2009
In 2004, when Britney Spears released her first greatest hits collection, "Greatest Hits: My Prerogative," many scoffed. Why, after only four studio albums, would Britney release a greatest hits record? However, I defended her. Love her or loathe her, few artists have churned out hit after hit quite like Britney, and evidently a solid album's worth of greatest hits.
It's now five years later and Britney is releasing her second hits package, "The Singles Collection." This time around I am less than enthusiastic. Don't great me wrong, her music is still great. But in the five years since the first collection, Spears has released two studio albums: "Blackout" (the album I consider to be her greatest work) and "Circus," its decent follow-up. However, do only two additional albums warrant another hits collection? Perhaps, but what we are given here is a below par effort.
The lead single to promote the album, "3" is another infectious pop track from Britney, one that debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. However, that's pretty much where my enthusiasm for this release ends; "3" is the only new track. That being said, my biggest gripe with this release is that her entire catalogue of singles isn't even represented here. Forgotten singles include "Sometimes," "Lucky," "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart," "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know," "My Prerogative," and "Break the Ice." If all of Britney's singles were included this would have been a 2-disc set. A 2-disc set would have provided the perfect opportunity to include unreleased songs such as "Love Is (A State of Grace)", thus making this set worthwhile to owners of the previous hits album.
In the end this is a collection of songs that actually includes only one more track than the previous hits collection. While these songs have been digitally remastered, I highly doubt that would benefit some of the newer songs. I recommend this release to fans that didn't get around to purchasing Britney's first greatest hits. Like I said, the music is great. But for the rest there is little incentive to buy this. To me this seems like a decision to gouge Britney's fans during the holiday season.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Collection? Yes. Definitive? NO!, November 10, 2009
So I've been a big Britney Spears fan since her debut "...Baby One More Time", so when I heard they were releasing "The Singles Collection" I was pretty excited. I mean I thought it would pretty much be a CD of the last ten years of my life. And the CD is good, but it's far from "The last ten years of my life".
What bothers me about the collection is the lack of older hits. No "Sometimes," "Lucky," or "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart." What's up with that? I mean that was when I liked her most. And why did they include "Boys"? I hardly even remember that one, I didn't even know that it was released as a remix until "Greatest Hits: My Prerogative". Was it really a bigger hit than "Overprotected" or "Not a Girl"?
I was first also thrown off by the inclusion of "Born to Make You Happy" on the US edition, since it wasn't a US single, but now it's one of my favorite Britney songs so I'm glad they included it.
On the positive, the booklet basically makes it worth the purchase. It features interesting facts and pictures from the music videos of each single on this CD. (Although I'm pretty sure the Box Set will have this too, with all of the singles).
Either way, it's an OK collection, but hardly definitive. This is more for the casual fan, while the CD Singles box is for hardcore fans (like me).
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome Sounding Collection, November 12, 2009
I received the Singles Collection today and I was pleasantly surprised at how great it sounded. I guess they "Re-Mastered" it just right. I'm awaiting the Deluxe Singles Collection which will be out towards the end of the month (I'm getting that for free w/my rewards from a credit card ;)
I'll let you all know about that and how the two compare in a couple weeks!
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