B In the Mix? Stupid title, awesome album.

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Britney Spears' remix album B In the Mix is da bizzy-bomb if you like housey, trancey remixes of excellent pop tunes. It starts off with this amazingly dark pounding remix of "Toxic" (which I always thought of as a pretty damned bleak song to begin with--Ceremony DJs take note) and then jumps into the PHATTEST IDM remake of that dumbshit song "Me Against the Music" that tears the song a new asshole by completely deconstructing it and slapping pieces of it together into a frankensteinian combination of weirdness atop a skeletal, twitchy beat that sounds like something A Doctrine of Works would bust out while seriously drunk. The other mixes are all just as good, especially Jacques Lu Cont's stripped down remake of "Breathe" and this really, really pretty house remix of "The Touch of My Hand" which makes masturbating so much more awesome than it already is. Sure, not everything is Hot Shit--the one remix of "Everytime" is nowhere near as good as the house mixes on the "Everytime" single, but even at its worst this album is really fucking great. Period.

There's a brand new track on the album called "And Then We Kiss" that is really, really pretty and very danceable and--honest to gods--Britney Spears' voice has actually improved. She's not doing that little-sexxxy-girl growl shite anymore, so her voice sounds a LOT smoother and more mature, which is a really good thing, because it suits her. I've always thought Ms. Kevin Federline sounded best when she was doing the sweeter, prettier pop ballad numbers such as "Shadow" and that "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman" song--sure, the lyrics may be as ghey as can be, but she made them sound nice.

Jesus...listen to me talking about this pop crap like I'm Carson Daily or some other generic MTV personality. I'm such a fagg sometimes.