Eeesh. That's a bad look.How can one lose 'it' by getting more of something else? Just ask Ms. Britney Spears!
Spears kicked off proceedings at the Las Vegas event on Sunday with her new single, "Gimme More."Oh well. Nothing like a bit of objectivity to bring you back to reality. As Philip K. Dick once observed "reality" is that which persists even when you stop believing in it. To me, Britney Spears has been one of those things - I'd like to believe the world would not buy so much of her crap, but it has, and still does - "and that's reality!"
But the performance was viewed by many as a disaster -- not least, it seems, by the troubled star herself.
A backstage source tells Us Weekly, "She was able to see video of herself throughout the auditorium. She flipped out. She came running off the stage, yelling, 'Oh, my God, I looked like a fat pig! I looked like a fat pig!' She was inconsolable."
She was never much of a singer. She was a dancer without a sense of rhythm. She sold her records on the back of other songwriters' work, and a video clip directed by pornographers. In other words, she was a complete media-event concocted by cynical marketing types. 8years down the track, she's lost the team that delivered her to stardom; pushed out 2 kids; gone through a messy media-frenzied divorce, gone in and out of rehab (where she yelled out she was the anti-Christ); packed on fat and cellulite; and has now turned up short.
There was a comment somewhere that said her best work was behind her, but I'm trying to figure out what exactly that work was, given the minimality of her creative input. I just can't imagine people reflecting on the turn of the millennium in a thousand years' time and thinking "Britney Spears! Now there was a creative visionary who defined her times!"
If anything she is the regurgitated product of her times.
People are saying this is the end of her. They *misunuderestimate* the stupidity of the masses.
UPDATE: Here's the actual *performance*...
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