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Britney Spears - In the Zone [Bonus CD/DVD]

Primary Artist
Britney Spears
Album Title
In the Zone [Bonus CD/DVD]
Release Date
February 24, 2004 
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
If 2001's Britney was a transitional album, capturing Britney Spears at the point when she wasn't a girl and not yet a woman, its 2003 follow-up, In The Zone, is where she has finally completed that journey and turned into Britney, the Adult Woman. Like her peer Christina Aguilera, Spears equates maturity with transparent sexuality and the pounding sounds of nightclubs, but since she's not as dirty as Aguilera, her spin is a little different. Where Aguilera comes across like a natural-born skank, Britney is the girl next door cutting loose at college, drinking and smoking and dancing and sexing just a little too recklessly, since this is the first time she can indulge herself. Read More