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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Honest reaction

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I was staring at her belly for three and a half minutes.

My inner feminist (and inner sensible human, too) is raging: "She looks NORMAL! This is what YOU look like! This is a perfectly reasonable body shape to aspire to! Why is this bothering the non-feminist, non-sensible human side of you so much?"

Non-feminist, non-sensible human side is countering with the following: 'That is a REALLY bad choice of outfit, she could have worn something just as revealing but that emphasised her lovely bits (legs, back, hips, boobs) without having this disproportionate distance between the bottom of her bra and the top of her pants. Something like this, perhaps:



Even just two crosses of material across there would be just lovely. Call me Trinny and/or Susannah but there's sexy and there's desperate. And she hasn't brushed her hair. Or bothered to learn more than 45 seconds of proper choreography."

Both halves are right, really. And both are quite angry with her for Not Making Enough Effort.

Re: Honest reaction

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Agreed re: desperation of the outfit; she could have worn a proper full length evening gown and looked more appropriate for the thing, to be honest. It looked so much like 'hey everyone by the way, Britney is SEXY!!!! don't know if you've noticed' and really, given the overt sexuality of the song, she could have tried being a bit more subtle/classy.

Re: Honest reaction

[koganbot]

Oh, I think as far as her body goes, she looked luscious, and I didn't mind the costume at all. But the deadness in her face, the listlessness of the movements!

Re: Honest reaction

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It was all a bit too Anna Nicole for comfort.

Re: Honest reaction

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The only 'problem' with her body is that it looks different after having two kids than it did e.g. here



...but Britney hasn't realised this and (intentionally or not) is desperately trying to pretend nothing has changed. Another problem is that because this is the first time we've seen her body recently, we are harking back to old photo-shopped images and videos (like I just did just now) and our comparisons are skewed. (By 'we' and 'our', here I really mean the critics who have been saying she's overweight, and my non-sensible half who is wondering what the hell happened to my lovely Britney and is looking for a particular aspect onto which to attach blame). Sorry, this is all getting a bit incoherent, I've just got back from Ikea.