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Its 2007, four years since Britney Spears dropped a new album.

To preclude any doubt, she starts the song with a soon-to-be-iconic lyric: Its Britney, Bitch.

But each time Britney sings more her voice is pitched down to a devilish growl.

The disturbing vocal processing mirrors the vulgar paparazzi and public scrutiny in her personal life.

The year afterBlackouts release, she was placed under a conservatorship that significantly curtailed her creative control.

Many of her highest-performing singles from the 2010s obscure rather than enhance her vocal nuances.

Its lead single, Make Me…,* places her voice front and center.

*A previous version of this story misnamed Britney Spearss song Make Me…

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