![]() The title song of “Circus” splits the world between entertainers and observers, then announces “I’m a put-on-a-show kinda girl.” That show takes place onstage and off, lurching between scripted self-promotion and constant paparazzi surveillance. (If it should all come crashing down, she’ll have plenty of catalog to fall back on.) “You say I’m crazy I got you crazy,” she taunts in her current single “Womanizer,” which reached No. ![]() Spears bets that she can balance stardom and notoriety better than he did: holding attention with peculiar, even self-destructive behavior, while recording and performing to channel that attention toward sales. With “Circus,” as on her 2007 album, “Blackout,” Ms. ![]() A fake newscaster names Britney Spears the Queen of Pop on her sixth studio album, “Circus.” She must know what became of the self-anointed King of Pop, Michael Jackson: a globally popular hitmaker now reduced to tabloid fodder.
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