(Gottwald, Kelly, Levin)
Album: Circus
Spears has made a career out of introducing new pronunciations to the masses, (a favorite is turning “hazy” into “hay-zay” in 2011’s “Hold It Against Me”), and here she elevates it into an artform: “Shattered glah-ee-yass.” Odd linguistics aside, this brief, snappy tune is a sneakily strong cut that delivered Spears the highest charting non-single of her career, peaking at number 70 on the Billboard Hot 100 based on the strength of its digital sales. And with that infectious hook, the song has an immediacy that most pop songs strive for. Lyrically, the song has Britney haunting an ex-lover in what could have been a sequel to one of her greatest unreleased tracks, “She’ll Never Be Me” from the Britney era. Fans had their fingers crossed that this might receive the single treatment, but Spears inexplicably released the 2-year-old Blackout cut “Radar” as the fourth and final single for Circus. An odd choice for many reasons, not least of which is that there were several other single-ready cuts like this one just begging to get the video treatment.
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