The outfit was bad and so was the hair, but it really wasn't as bad as people made it to be back then. BRITNEY Spears has revealed shes Catholic, 23 years after the singer dressed as a schoolgirl in the video for her first hit Baby One More Time. She wasn't in the best headspace, so shame on her team for making her do this when she just didn't have it in her. She seemed like she just needed time, and she was being rushed to make a comeback given all that she was going at the time. She also wasn't really prioritizing and was late to one of the rehearsals and was going out the week of the show: But after three minutes of nihilistic pole dancing, she is left despairing for humanity. She'd reappear in the audience and levitate over the crowd." Britney Spears - Gimme More Our intrepid reviewer wanted to like this video. Midway through "Gimme More," Angel would transform Spears into a flock of birds. It would just be a visual effect using no screens," Angel explained to the Times. At the start of the number, she would appear and split into two and then four Britneys. "The magician had designed illusions which he claimed "would happen in the open" during Spears's performance of "Gimme More" on the VMA stage at the Palms Hotel and Casino. I also think there were insurance issues with the production. She was supposed to do a performance with Criss Angel, but I think it had to be scrapped due to time commitments. Even the outfits were last minute, and I think it was between that and a white outfit that looked similar to the one she had with Madonna at that VMA performance. In any case, it seems it would never be wise to write an obituary of Spears’ career.If I remember correctly, this was kinda done last minute.
“A great VMA performance would have probably closed the deal for her, but she’s still got until Thanksgiving to do other good performances and to release a strong album with other hits on it,” he said. everybody thinks she’s a train wreck.”īut the single of “Gimme More,” the song she destroyed onstage, is off to a great start in the Top 40, says Sean Ross of Edison Research, which tracks radio play. “Now with last night’s performance, she’s just kind of put herself back in the same boat. “I just felt like that performance was make or break for her comeback,” says Wade. How all this will impact Spears’ career, and sales of her new album, has yet to be seen. Morgan would later post to Twitter with another Spears reference, saying, Hit me Becky one more time, referencing her feud with Becky Lynch and the lyrics to Britney Spears. Fans on Twitter pointed out that Morgan’s red latex outfit was inspired by the. And then now, I’m looking at all these blogs this morning about how everybody thinks she’s fat and I’m like, ‘What! Fat?’ She wasn’t fat.” Liv Morgan apparently paid tribute to Britney Spears on this week’s RAW. “I kind of feel bad for her,” said Shelley Wade, a DJ at New York City pop station Z100. “The girl’s had two kids - I hope I’m a size 10 after having kids!”
“Give her a break,” wrote one blogger on . that these Britney Spears costumes were so cute If the former teen songstress was THE pop star that you idolized growing up (hey, maybe you still do), then pay homage to the songbird by dressing up as her We sell a costume similar to her 'Baby One More' time music. For every “fat” comment there was an impassioned retort. On the morning after what the VH1 channel called Spears’ “already historic” performance, the blogosphere was buzzing with opinions. The show drew 7.1 million viewers Sunday, up 23 percent over last year’s VMAs, and was the highest-rated cable program of the year among people aged 12 to 34, according to Nielsen Media Research. More profoundly, in an age where skinny models and skeletal actresses are under scrutiny for the message they’re sending young girls, what does it say that we’re excoriating a young woman for a little thickness in her middle?Ĭertainly people were curious to see her. Was it fair? Did Spears, lest we forget a mother of two, deserve to be held up against the standard of her once fantastically toned abs, sculpted by sessions of 1,000 tummy crunches? Or was she asking for it by choosing that unforgiving black-sequined bikini?