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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Jive
Salesrank: 20578
Released: November 9, 2004 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (Limited Edition with Bonus CD) Track Listing:
1. My Prerogative
2. Toxic
3. I’m A Slave 4 U
4. Oops!...I Did It Again
5. Me Against The Music feat. Madonna
6. Stronger
7. Everytime
8. …Baby One More Time
9. (You Drive Me) Crazy (The Stop Remix!)
10. Boys
11. Sometimes
12. Overprotected (The Darkchild Remix)
13. Lucky
14. Outrageous
15. I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
16. I’ve Just Begun (Having My Fun)
17. Do Somethin’
Editorial Review:
In the six years since her debut CD ...Baby One More Time set Billboard charts a-trembling, Britney Spears has pried open pop music's rusty cage and sprinkled her sex-kittenish fairy dust around like long-overdue disinfectant. She has also arguably done more for the neglected navel than Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce have done for the derriere. But despite her well-earned reputation for boldness (to which releasing a greatest-hits package after just four discs can only add), Britney calls it quits at making claims about her vocal talent. And that works in her favor. Because while My Prerogative is an exciting and even at times superb record, its merits lie almost exclusively in each track's production. From the Abba-esque choruses of her earliest hits ("...Baby One More Time," "Crazy") to the twitching, pulsed-up grooves of 2001's "I'm a Slave 4 U" to the technified bleeps and swizzles of 2003's self-skewering "Outrageous," the pop princess proves she's been largely content to let her in-studio performances take a back seat to the rhythm. With beats as consistently good as the ones she's managed to recruit, though, it's hard to blame her. "Toxic" and "Me Against the Music" mash trance and hip-hop into the mix, and the three previously unreleased joints don't shrink from sliding headfirst into new sound, either. The Bobby Brown cover and title track stomps and bomps to a bared-teeth backdrop, and "Do Somethin'" creates such dancefloor urgency it should come with a siren. "I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)" treads two steps shy of crossing the Britney-bred boundary between sexy and raunchy, but fans will hope it's autobiographical anyway. For detractors the song--and the disc as a whole--should signal a long wait till the party's over. --Tammy La Gorce
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (Limited Edition with Bonus CD) Reviews:
Are Your Kidding Me? 
2007-10-09 - Britney Spears seriously has to go. No one likes her, we all just love looking at her and thinking we have the most well put together life. All she is good for is making the tabliods money and giving celebrities a bad name. Oh and she sucks at singing.
Musical junk food: Not always a bad thing 
2007-07-07 - It's pretty daring of Britney to have released a greatest hits package after four or so albums, but she has had some mega hits. People can argue whether she's solid crap or solid gold as an artist, but she's definitely gotten a lot of attention, probably least of all for her music. Especially lately.
This is a great collection, though, in terms of dance music, with Toxic, I'm a Slave 4 U, Oops I Did It Again, and Baby Hit Me One More Time and more (I still don't like that Madonna collaboration she did, though, just offputting to me!). I wanted something with some poppy, dancey elements to it, and wasn't disappointed. I do love the two new tracks, as they're fun and make you want to dance, though Do Something seemed familiar to me, and then I realized it reminded me of No Doubt, off their Rock Steady album.
I'm not crazy about her ballads, as I don't think her voice is that good (and I find it odd that a lot of her tracks feature a lot of digital manipulation -- why is that? Though I think I know the answer), but I just fastforward and am perfectly happy to listen on, enjoy a little fluff and inject a little energy into my day. It's like junk food, you can't live on it, but sometimes a taste hits the spot.
Great Pop Comp 
2007-05-07 - Excellent collection of all of Britney's hits. A must have for Britney fans and a guilty pleasure for any pop music fan. Whatver you think of Britney's goofy antics in her personal life, she did do some damn good pop music. Can't help it, the stuff just got stuck in my head. Good music for when you just want to have fun, not think. This album demonstrates why Britney was the Queen of Pop for awhile. Maybe she'll come back someday, maybe she won't. Doesn't matter, she's made her mark on pop. Even her detractors prove as much - if she didn't matter, they wouldn't bother. Good stuff.
Can you find anyone who will admit to liking this?
2007-05-07 - Once the publicity machine winds down and you sit and actually
listen to as much of this album as you can stand, you have to
wonder: did anybody really like this or did they all just agree
that they should? Could the voice track have been erased an
another substituted for it? Could it have been you? me?
I notice that the tabloids are charting the downfall of the
poor child who is the nominal artist on this album and I
wonder if anyone ever seriously thought that she could be anything
more than a footnote.
So this music now-in the light of the artiste's unravelling-can
only make us wonder how gullible we all are, and how gullible we'll
be next time.
Lynn Hoffman, author The New Short Course in Wine
Eh.. why not? 
2007-02-03 - Why even browse through her other albums? Cream of the crop right here.. no need to buy any of those other ones for the one good song and then the fodder.
Definate must-buy for Britney fans.. other than that it's passable.
