Britney Spears - Greatest Hits: My Prerogative [US Bonus CD] (CD)

All Music Guide

As a time capsule, Greatest Hits: My Prerogative does its job well. It has all of Britney Spears' hits except "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart," a largely forgotten ballad from her debut released just before her second album, Oops...I Did It Again, and it contains two very good previously unreleased tunes, including the In the Zone outtake "I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)," an infectious spin on No Doubt's "Hella Good" that betters most of the songs that were featured on the album (it also has a useless remake of Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative," which seems to exist solely for its video). Clearly, this is an album not just for the casual fan but for any fan of Spears, because, like most teen pop singers, her albums are notoriously spotty affairs, memorable largely for the singles themselves. Greatest Hits performs the valuable function of offering all of Britney's hit singles all presented here in their hit forms, which means this has the "Stop Remix" of "(You Drive Me) Crazy," not ...the album version in one place, and it does work as a portrait of the time when Britney Spears was the defining figure of American pop culture. [ Greatest Hits was released with a limitededition bonus remix disc in its initial pressings. All the remixes are previously unreleased but only two are noteworthy: there's a "Chris Cox Megamix" medley of all her big hits, plus a "HiBias Radio Remix" of "Everytime" that proves that the song is better as a dance tune than a ballad.] - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read more Less