 Tom Ewing of Pitchfork Media suggested that " the <unk> of the voice , the way it edges into the music , suggests that the price of fame is identity erasure . We understand her through a filter , and that 's how we have to hear her too . The multiple backing vox fragment identity further , turn the song more universal " . Dave De Sylvia of Sputnikmusic also picked it as one of the album 's highlights . Melissa Maerz of Rolling Stone named it the best track of the album along with " Freakshow " , deeming it as a " tabloid @-@ bashing banger " . Jim Abbott of the Orlando Sentinel said that " Musically , songs such as ' Piece of Me , ' ' Radar ' and ' Break the Ice ' are one @-@ dimensional , robotic exercises . " Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic commented that " Bloodshy & Avant try desperately to craft a defiant anthem for this tabloid fixture , as she couldn 't be bothered to write one on her own " . Chris Wasser from the Irish Independent said the song " drowns slowly under <unk> production and a lyrical theme that for all of its close connection with the trials and tribulations Spears has had to deal with , weren 't even penned by the singer who could have very easily recorded her fairly unchallenging input on Blackout in less than a week . " The song was later included in Rolling Stone 's 100 Best Songs of 2007 at number fifteen . 
