"Hold lt Against Me" is prime Britney, packed with aggressive electro jitters, a Euro-cheese riff that's strangely close to AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" and a weird break down where Brit moans and blows kisses, The first single from her as-yet-untittled album, the song co-produced by Max Martin
and Dr. Luke has a synth-gloom ambience that recalls Britney's 2007 classic, blackout, probably the most influential pop album of the past five years. Britney's come-ons sometimes head toward Austin Powers/Benny Hill territory:
"If I said I want your body now/Would you hold it against me?" It isn't hard to notice a tinge of desperation in Brit's digitally processed growl, especially in the line "You feel like paradise, and I need a vacation tonight. " But even so, "Hold it against me" promises great things for her seventh album, aside from the overall jaw-drop factor the that Britney has hung in there to make a seventh album at all.
