The Billboard Music Awards were this Sunday and the reviews are in. While Beyonce is getting praise for her performance others seemed to have left the critics with a bad taste in their mouths. Britney Spears might be back but what she is selling is a piss poor attempt at performing. It’s one thing to lip-sync which (we all know she has done since her first album) but it is quite another to lip-sync and hardly perform on stage…that’s just lazy. Some performers chose to lip-sync due to the intricate choreography their performance entails (like Usher or Chris Brown). That would be excusable…at least in my eyes. At least they are putting in an effort to entertain their fans. Britney’s cameo during Rihanna’s S&M performance was kind of lackluster to put it politely. While one performer was clearly trying and singing (Rihanna) the other (Britney) not only didn’t sing she hardly moved. What I find comical about the whole thing, however, is that she no longer even tries to match her lip-syncing to the track…she cares that little.
In her hay day, Britney could do it all: pretend to sing, dance and gyrate on stage mesmerizing her audiences the world over. Let us not all forget, she held a live snake on stage once upon a time. She even kissed Madonna…not that the original material girl isn’t a handsome woman...my point solely is that these examples go to show she was capable of trying and doing everything and anything to create a show-stopping moment.
I know it’s not your Hit Me, Baby, One More Time days, but come on, you are still young enough to give a crap. If anything, try a little harder for your kids. And trying doesn’t mean lazily pressing yourself against a stripper pole. That was a mockery to hardworking strippers all over. Those girls work for their money…you are just resting on your laurels. While I am a fan of Britney’s auto-tuned new album, I don’t think it’s right to lazily move across the stage…especially when you can even be troubled to try and sing. I hope for the sake of all of her remaining fans that bought tickets to her tour that she actually works for them.
The Performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88aomeGISxQ
No comments:
Post a Comment