The songs are first-rate, the moves hypnotic, but the diva is strangely lacking in presence. When you’ve got this many hits, though, perhaps that doesn’t matter
The 80s revival in pop has now straddled two decades. The 90s fetish is bubbling away. Bring on the 00s revival, though, if it means that all pop will sound like Britney’s Toxic – the highlight of this business-like public appearance by a comeback queen.
It starts as a long, slow tease, a Disneyfied but narcotised remix, with Spears in some shiny red and black get-up surrounded by slow-motion dancers. Then the song properly kicks in: a breathy Bollywood confection produced by 00s titans Bloodshy & Avant, full of dreamy threat and cleverly anachronistic surf guitar. Britney gives very good Britney here: all wrists and elbows, chin juts and impatient tosses of ponytail.
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