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Get Naked is possibly her greatest song and the most exciting pop song of the last decade. It combines "urban-pop" sensibilities and beats with a completely un-hinged and deranged vocal performance. I agree with DirtyPornStar about how creepy it is.
Perhaps if you just listened to it in the background through laptop speakers then it could be dismissed as an über-sexy, bouncy, hip electro jam. But there's so much more to it! Danja's chorus sounding like some perverted circus clown. Britney begging "PLEEEASE" with more emotion than she expresses anywhere else on her past three albums. That fucking spine-tingling, icy, staccato ascending synth riff. The pulsating baseline, etc, etc, etc...
Also, Perfect Lover is perfect.It opens with a cackle from producer Danja, and "Get Naked" is almost a duet, except that he's subject to the same vocal gravity well Britney is and his laugh is smeared and stretched until it sounds like creaking wood. Britney contributes a series of gasps, sighs and chants while Danja sings the chorus, his voice slowed to a decaying moan. The track's 4/4 bounce never varies but it still sounds fearfully unstable, the backing synths slipping into quicksand while other keyboard runs spiral up on a helium rush. It's thick with chopped-up detail, Danja and Britney's voices taking turns to distort and break up. Halfway through, after a particularly queasy downtempo shift, Danja starts speaking with a dead metallic tang: "I just want to take your hand". Britney's reply is - for almost the first time on the whole of Blackout-- sung with perfect clarity, a desperate, front-of-the-mix "Please!"
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