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It's an understatement to say that we haven't followed Britney Spears' every move here at Pitchfork, but hey, "Toxic" was our No. 3 single of 2004, ranking above M.I.A. and LCD Soundsystem. Anyway, radio personality Ryan Seacrest played an unidentified new song on his show today (it appears to be an unofficial leak and may not even be finished), and now it's streaming over at Perez Hilton. The verdict? Weird! And not very good. Awful, even. She's way up close to the microphone and getting "jazzy," trilling away on half-octave runs, and then there's a spoken interlude. The latter makes you wonder: is she lonesome tonight?

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