Pitchfork's Tom Ewing called "Get Naked (I Got a Plan)" the centerpiece of the album, and added that "like most of "Blackout", is superb modern pop, which could probably only have been released by this star at this moment. Britney as walking catastrophe makes for great car-crash copy and her record can fit into that if you want it to." Ewing also compared the relationship between Spears and "Blackout" with American television series "Twin Peaks", saying that what made the show "so great wasn't the central good-girl-gone-bad story, it was the strangeness that story liberated. And Britney's off-disc life is both distraction from and enabler for this extraordinary album". Mike Schiller of PopMatters said that "Right down to its utterly garish cover, "Blackout" is utterly disposable and ultimately forgettable." Melissa Maerz from "Rolling Stone" explained that "Blackout" "is the first time in her career that she's voiced any real thoughts about her life" and that "she's gonna crank the best pop booty jams until a social worker cuts off her supply of hits." Rob Sheffield of the same magazine described "Blackout" as "one of the most influential albums in modern pop". "Slant Magazine" writer Sal Cinquemani compared the album unfavorably to "In the Zone", saying that although "Blackout" "scores well, and its hotness quotient is remarkably high, isn't much of a step forward for Britney following 2003's surprisingly strong "In the Zone", for which she received a writing credit on a majority of the songs (as opposed to a scant three here)."