Britney Spears’ ‘Blackout’ Turns Five: Stan & Deliver

Idolator Staff | October 26, 2012 6:00 am

Name: Patrik S. | Location: New York, NY | Twitter: @patriksandberg

6. Get Naked (I Got a Plan): Blackout was, without question, the most consequential pop album of the first millennial decade. Its nucleus lives and breathes as track #6, “Get Naked (I Got a Plan)”. The song, produced by Floyd “Danja” Hills, packages the essence of what made Blackout a momentous artistic and cultural moment for Britney Spears, as it soundtracked the peak of her excesses—fueled by the nativity of the meme cycle and the storm of paparazzi that turned her flaws into widespread interactive theater—and her inevitable (though stunningly violent) spiraling descent in the public eye.

Throbbing, cinematic, dark, sexy, frightening and altogether dazzling, it is without question the lost #1 hit of Britney’s catalog. Its lyrics have become iconic: “Baby I’m a freak and I don’t really give a damn. I’m crazy as a motherfucker, bet that on your man.” It’s black magic.