“Britney Spears is now so high-concept, such a distillation of what made pop singers like Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson and Madonna so fabulously marketable, that her third record, Britney, is a concept album about herself. She’s "Overprotected." She’s "Lonely." She’s "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman." Britney just wants to be Britney, this self-reflexive […]”