When Britney Spears’ new CD ‘Blackout’ debuted, it actually did relatively well by debuting within the top ten. People even thought that it was going to debut at number 1. But sales rapidly went down and now, the record is doing so poorly that they are actually giving it away.
But you can only get the free Britney CD if you purchase the latest Britney fragrance. It’s a case of buy one take one with the ‘one’ being Britney. That’s like buying two stinkers in one. So who would really buy this? The people who bought her CD are pretty much the only fans she has left and they know how much of a stinker her album is by now that they wouldn’t want another one even if it is free.
Sara Evans wasted no time getting back to what she does best in the music game after her divorce. While it’s true that this is a compilation released just a week after the messy event was final, this set arrived and four of its 14 cuts are new tracks.There are some real problems with assembling a collection like this: for starters it contains not a single cut from her excellent debut, Three Chords and the Truth, issued in 1997. Greatest Hits is essentially every big single, but ignores some of the also-rans in favor of new songs. That’s fine and it’s accurate, but it feels incomplete. The new cuts are part of the problem: the album opens with “As if,” an anthemic but generic love song written with Hillary Lindsey and John Shanks, who produced all the new cuts (and you can be sure at least two of them will end up on her next studio effort).
The cut is full of big, compressed guitars and muted, programmed-sounding drums — despite the fact that Evans has one of the best bands in the business.