"Radar" is a song written by Karlsson, Winnberg, Henrik Jonback, Balewa Muhammad, Candice Nelson, Ezekiel "Zeke" Lewis, Patrick Smith, and it was produced by Bloodshy & Avant and The Clutch for american pop-singer Britney Spears' fifth studio album Blackout (2007). The track is rumored to be the fourth single from the album with a release sometime in July 2008. Its accompanying music video is rumored to be directed by Spears herself.^[1]

Style

Musically and lyrically similar to Britney Spears's grammy winning single Toxic. In MTV's review of "Blackout," Radar was described as going

for an electro/Eurodisco approach, but keeps Spears' vocals more in the foreground. Instead of emulating a video game, she's accompanied sparingly by sonar pulses and distorted synths to keep the sound dangerous, because she's on the prowl. "I got my eye on you," she speaks at one point. "I can't let you get away." ^[2]

Critical reception

The track received mixed reviews as a whole. Blender gave the track an extremely positive review, stating it has a hook "most pop stars woud kill for."^[3]. Stephem Thomas Erlewine of All Music Guide called it "relentless," and was chosen as one of the album's highlights.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Music video

The music video for "Radar" will mark the second time Spears has directed a video, (After her "Do Somethin'" Video in 2005). A source indicated that Spears had wanted to direct the video to "...make sure it's exactly right". The storyline of the video is currently unknown.

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