We Were Right- Redux
From the Planetarium posting of January 6, 2004:
Every single uber-pretentious, too cool for school music critic from Village Voice to Spin to Skyscraper has just torn Britney's new record, In the Zone, a new asshole. A typical example would be Minneapolis' CityPages, in which a certain Matthew Wilder uses his review of In the Zone as an excuse to make all sorts of obnoxious comments, most of which seem to center around the fact that he is smarter than most critics....The fact is, Britney's record is just dandy. Better than dandy. If Wilder et. al would stop and notice the details, they would see they aren't wrong when they talk about the best producers money can buy. And those producers have crafted a damn fine modern dance-pop record, just like they were paid inordinate amounts of money to do....we guarantee "Toxic" is one of the best songs of the year and will be the biggest single from the album.
From Planetarium's Jan. 31st posting:
-Britney Spears' "Toxic". The best song of last year. Also, the first and likely last time we will agree with Keith Harris about anything.See, critics came 'round after pretending they were too cool for school.
From Dylan Hicks' essay on the Current in the latest issue of City Pages:
If I ran a radio station, I'd want the smart-pop snobs to hear Britney's Spears's "Toxic" not as corporate effluvium, but as an inventive, complex, silly, and damn fun piece of dance music- like the Postal Service, only better.