I personally like this album because while I am not a really big Britney fan and I don't buy her CDs, "Greatest Hits: My Prerogative" has all her dance tunes lined up in neat procession, without the unneeded accompaniment of fillers and sappy love songs.

Her three "previously unreleased" songs are alright - "My Perogative" 's tell-it-like-it-is lyrics are quite empowering and speak true to Britney's current tabloid-frenzied life, however, the album could probably due without track #16, "I've just begun (having my fun)". A thoroughly pointless song that isn't really catchy, I can't see why it went so high on the online download charts. Yet #17 is more promising; again, not one of her best songs and not single-worthy, it reminds me (slightly) of Gwen Stefani's new song "What you Waiting For?" - only without the sassiness of Ms. Stefani.

Overall, I think we finally have a Britney CD worthy buying, whether you're a casual fan or a die-hard Britaholic. My only gripe, other than tracks #16 and #17, is the album cover. Could Britney possibly look any more emaciated or gross? As a teenager myself, I speak from experience when I say it's pictures like that that make girls develop eating disorders.


i loved it   May 13, 2006
kaylee (Australia)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

i personally loved Britney's greatest hits, they are obviously going to be all her songs so i'm not sure why so many of you wrote scathing reveiws...not only about this album but for all her previous albums. if you didnt like her then your not going to like her now so don't bother getting the album. a lot of artists add a song or two that hasn't yet been released so give the poor girl a break. it's a fun album and i think that was the angle she was going for so if your not up for it go and get the pearl jam album and stop wasting your time writing a reveiw on someone you hate.

Good on you Britney...Keep it coming


From teenage sensation to icon of pop-culture   March 5, 2005
Pawel Kasa (Pablo Diablo)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

The bestselling artist in the 21st century Britney Spears summarizes with this collection first six years of her outstanding career and shows her story from teenage sensation to icon of pop-culture. She started with simple catchy pop songs which were written for her just to be hits, but in the 21st century she was converted to less commercial r'n'b and club music instead of selling incredible amount of records and above all she began to write her own songs. This album is a certificate of evolution from manufactured teen idol to professional artist.

Spears has as many fans as anti-fans, so there are varied opinions about her music. But we must to admit that facts are on Spears' side, because her music achieved not only commercial success with 60 million sold albums and almost twenty hits all over the world, but above all artistic with numerous nominations to the most prestigious music awards including Grammy. And no words can take it back from her. It's simply high quality pop music, that's all. Isn't it ridiculous that such innocent music causes so much anger or even hate in some people? Thanks to this strange mystery these people make Spears' music uncommon in some way.

Spears with all these hits took over the throne from Queen of Pop Madonna and Queen of R'n'B Janet Jackson. That's why she sold much more records during her career than Madonna and Janet put together in the same period of time! And such hits like: "...Baby One More Time", "Oops...I Did It Again", "I'm A Slave 4 U" or "Toxic" are classics in history of pop music already.

Unfortunately this is a US edition of this set, which means the poorest one. It has only 17 songs (14 international hits and 3 brand new tunes), because it omits these two hits from standard international version of this album, which were released on singles only overseas "Born To Make You Happy" and "I Love Rock'n'Roll". But why Britney's record company didn't put here a million-seller US hit "From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart" and chose little hit "Outrageous" instead of much bigger "Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know". There is also a special edition of this album where you can find a bonus CD with 6 very interesting remixes and "Megamix" of Britney's biggest hits.

Like you see it's better to buy the most expanded version of this album, which contains 20 songs (with both non-US singles and "Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know" as well) and which is also available in special version with bonus CD with all 6 remixes and "Megamix".

And it's only beginning...