Britney a stage prop on her own show

Well, I didn’t have to go to the concert to come up with this Toronto Star article (I wouldn’t even go to the concert if it were for free). I even posted it in my blog, almost identical to what this critic has stated below. She’s a manufactured product that has people to make her the product she is today.

Actually I think LadyGaGa has 10x more talent than Britney does.

Britney like a guest in her show  

Momentum of a splashy, entertaining performance maintained by her circus as Spears dips and struts

Ashante Infantry
pop & jazz critic

Britney Spears’s Air Canada Centre concert last night was innovative, entertaining and well-executed, but she had little to do with that.

It was a tricked-out, 90-minute splash that opened with real circus performers – jugglers, contortionists, a dwarf – and featured multimedia gimmicks, about two dozen dancers and themed sequences (Bollywood, martial arts, magic show, etc.).

Spears was more like a special guest than the star, often difficult to pinpoint among the (literally) smoke and masses on stage.

There were two noticeable differences from her last show here five years ago: far fewer preteens in the jammed-to-the-rafters arena; and the 27-year-old pop star is coasting on her previous glory.

Of the former, I guess parents are reluctant to take a chance given Spears’s penchant for erratic, oversexed performances, though this outing is relatively chaste. Of the latter, the lip-synching is a given (though she did show off passable, if thin pipes on one tune), but where that was once justified by sustained, complex dance moves, Spears seems to think it’s enough to remember to hit her marks.

She clearly knows the choreography, but is devoid of precision or fluidity, dipping in and out of routines to toss her hair and strut, safe in the knowledge that the dancers will maintain the momentum.

If she broke a sweat in the first half, it was from all the lighting and hurried costume changes (more than a dozen).

The sad irony of the whole ringmaster shtick is that we all know Spears is a golden goose who is not in control of anything offstage, including the phone calls she makes and when she sees her children.

The audience, some of whom paid up to $700, welcomed her enthusiastically, but once they got over “she’s actually here!”, they settled into the voyeurism that keeps Spears in the spotlight, silently watching, or critiquing her to each other, with little dancing or singing along.

Nine dates into a three-month tour, it is to her credit that she’s been able to get back to business after all the personal turmoil. It took Mariah Carey longer and Whitney Houston and Lauryn Hill are still AWOL.

It’s just too bad that she has evolved from singer to dancer to wind up as a prop in her own show.

Tonight’s concert starts at 7 p.m.