Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale reviewed: an avant-garde pop masterpiece, really. – By Jody Rosen – Slate Magazine: “But Spears’ blankness gives her songwriter-producers the opportunity to go nuts, taking wild liberties with beats, melodies, and effects. Britney’s star power, meanwhile, provides cover for the weirdness—anything she records, no matter how strange, instantly becomes pop. She may be a terrible musician; she’s certainly the most awkward performer of any major diva. But she is a great avant-gardist.”