This made me cry

[koganbot]

The Elvis imitation at the start was great, and the amount of flesh on her body is actually quite attractive. But this is really really sad.

Britney at the VMAs

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I was going to post that tonight! Well, I was going to post that and Amy Winehouse's Mercury performance as a compare/contrast exercise. It is sad. It's like...you could tell that they'd made the choreography as simple as possible, and still Britney just...wanders around the stage, occasionally waving her arm three beats after everyone else. The bit when the backing dancer has to help her up the steps...aargh. I guess everything's been covered everywhere by now? The glazed-over eyes, the not knowing the words to her song, the shocked expression on Fiddy's face at the end, Rihanna's laughter...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Alsom apparently Fiddy was interviewed beforehand, and he said he was most looking forward to Britney, because he really wanted to see her smash her critics, and he identified with her as a fellow artist. You get the feeling that everyone was rooting for her! Oh, Britney.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I dunno, having seen the reactions to it before the clip I was expecting something genuinely horrible - she looks bored, demotivated, nervous, someone who's been in her job too long, but not especially fucked-up.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

All of those things, plus every time she tries to do a fast dance move or move around the stage she stumbled and looks like she's going to fall over!

[koganbot]

Tom, this is her comeback performance, the one where she's showing everyone what's what and telling the world it can go suck shit, and instead she's lifeless, imprecise...

[koganbot]

Which I suppose is a way of telling the world to go suck shit, but...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes - but I think the performance says "I really actually can't be bothered to come back" rather than anything more macabre - maybe she doesn't care whether the world sucks shit or sherbet.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

I agree with you entirely.

[koganbot]

I actually think that Rihanna's laughter was for the pole dancer up above her (that's where she seemed to be looking), but nonetheless...

Interesting that most of the people on this thread didn't see what you and I saw.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Surprised that they didn't! (Most people I know, ie people not here, did see it. Most people thought Britney looked not just drunk, but as if she'd been drunk for eight days; I concurred.)

The weight thing is such a red herring! We've known she isn't slim and toned these days for ages, because she has had two children and also keeps flashing us. It wasn't her belly which was disturbing, but her almost total lack of motor functions.

[koganbot]

My ex-gf Naomi recently posted this on the LVW site:

you've met stephen, michaela's boyfriend. his sister, nina, was one of britney's backup dancers at the vma. she was the one in the front row on britney's direct left, as viewed from the audience. she flew on the plane to vegas with her, and transmitted info to stephen throughout the day of the vma's. suffice it to say that britney's blank-eyed stare MIGHT have had something to do with her (ummm, alleged?) consumption of adult beverages, both on the plane, and then throughout the night and during the day (the latter two reported ad-nauseum by all the wires and people magazine, among others). it's hard to look connected when you're still drunk or severely hung over. trust me, i should know.

Btw, if you scroll down, I've posted some equally classic (though more animated) Alice and Hilary performances.