{"id":8118,"date":"2011-04-02T22:41:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T05:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2011-04-02T22:41:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T05:41:56","slug":"britney-spears-femme-fatale-reviewed-an-avant-garde-pop-masterpiece-really-by-jody-rosen-slate-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2011\/04\/britney-spears-femme-fatale-reviewed-an-avant-garde-pop-masterpiece-really-by-jody-rosen-slate-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears&#8217; Femme Fatale reviewed: an avant-garde pop masterpiece, really. &#8211; By Jody Rosen &#8211; Slate Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"110328_MB_spearsTN.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2011\/04\/110328_MB_spearsTN.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"110328 MB spearsTN\" width=\"250\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2289681\/\" >Britney Spears&#8217; Femme Fatale reviewed: an avant-garde pop masterpiece, really. &#8211; By Jody Rosen &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a>: &#8220;But Spears&#8217; blankness gives her songwriter-producers the opportunity to go nuts, taking wild liberties with beats, melodies, and effects. Britney&#8217;s star power, meanwhile, provides cover for the weirdness\u2014anything she records, no matter how strange, instantly becomes pop. She may be a terrible musician; she&#8217;s certainly the most awkward performer of any major diva. But she is a great avant-gardist.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britney Spears&#8217; Femme Fatale reviewed: an avant-garde pop masterpiece, really. &#8211; By Jody Rosen &#8211; Slate Magazine: &#8220;But Spears&#8217; blankness gives her songwriter-producers the opportunity to go nuts, taking wild liberties with beats, melodies, and effects. Britney&#8217;s star power, meanwhile, provides cover for the weirdness\u2014anything she records, no matter how strange, instantly becomes pop. She &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2011\/04\/britney-spears-femme-fatale-reviewed-an-avant-garde-pop-masterpiece-really-by-jody-rosen-slate-magazine\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Britney Spears&#8217; Femme Fatale reviewed: an avant-garde pop masterpiece, really. &#8211; By Jody Rosen &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-26W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8119,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions\/8119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}