http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elueA2rofoo 2007 was decidedly not Britneys year. After a high profile divorce, increasingly strange behavior, and a public breakdown, it seemed as though Britney had finally succumbed to the teen star curse. This was only furthered by her disastrous VMA performance of new single Gimme More. Then something weird happened. Britney released "Blackout" to surprisingly robust critical acclaim. Rolling Stone called it the most influential pop album of the last five years, Pitchfork compared the albums effectiveness to the groundbreaking 90s drama Twin Peaks, and The Times named it the fifth best pop album of the decade. What initially seemed like Bizzaro world turned out to be justified the album and its strangely hypnotic lead single represented some of the weirdest and most exhilarating pop music in some time, leaving a legacy of radio dance hits behind in its wake.
Patrick Delgado is a soon-to-be graduate of Emerson College studying film, journalism and art history, with a minor in "not making very much money, huh?" He believes humanity would better coexist if we could all listen to a One Direction album after watching a Lars von Trier movie. Netflix tells him his genre of choice is "Cerebral Foreign Dramas with a Strong Female Lead," but that seems specific.