My god, girl. All you have to do is lip synch and dance for a living. Can it be that hard? Even I can dance better than this…and I’m about that chubby, too. This is as good an example of phoning it in as I’ve ever seen, and the audience reaction shots are priceless; their jaws are hanging, and not because she’s so hot!
Come to think of it, my roots are greasy as well. Shit, where’s my fifty million dollars? Perez Hilton‘s got a thread going: it’s called “How Bad was Britney, Y’All?” and it has 6100 comments and counting…
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Thank god that at least th ewar in Iraq is going well . . . . .
Can we send her over there? We sent Jessica Simpson, but they sent her back.
Oh no. Where is her manager? Someone shoud be stopping her from doing that.
Thamk god for lip syncing Y’ALL! LOL She was HORRID! I mean she had guts for going out there like that but come on… She was barely dancing her outfit was slutty and she shoulda worn a less revealing outfit. the audiencevwas sooo funny rihanna was laughin her ass off I always knew that trailor trash skank couldn’t sing! she was just an entatainer not a singer she should hide under a rock. She was and always will be a phony just like JESSICA EFFIN SIMPSON HER LOSER SISTER PARIS, HILL DUFF AND ALL THA REST! Im so glad people can now see her for what she and all the rest are PHONY ASS LIP SYNCERS. we need to see more real people that can sing Like alica keys and jennifer hudson.
Damn son, where you been? Go watch old ‘American Bandstand’ and then tell me just how new the phenomenon is.
They lip-synched on American Bandstand? Nooooooo, not the Osmonds!
Absolutely awful :Q….
I’m gonna do it again.
I can’t believe I’m leaping to her defense again.
Well…not entirely. I can’t watch the video since it’s gone down, but I’m pissed off with you Rain’, bringing chubby into the matter. What the hell does that matter? Irrelevant…an elephant. Either way it doesn’t matter.
Admittedly, it’s hardly the chicest outfit (she looks ludicrous, and I kind of imagine the performance not being entirely different to hammering that final nail into a coffin…on stage…in front of everybody you want to love her).
I still feel sorry for her.
I don’t know why I care.
I’m bringing chubby into it because looking hawt is how she makes her living…and she don’t look so hawt. You’re right, she’s a perfectly fine weight for her height and age, but she doesn’t have an athletic body at the moment, nor does she have a showbiz-quality body. And it’s not Jodie Foster we’re talking about here: it’s Britney Spears, a woman found in a court of law to have made a career out of being thin and sexy. The fact that she’s not thin and sexy and doesn’t even appear to be trying does matter.
I’ll try to get another video. People are putting them up every five minutes; meanwhile, go watch Chris Crocker!
Vid refreshed.
Yo, I hate to be a whinger (especially so sporadically, I have lack of internets lately) but techically I don’t think ‘Showbiz’ has anything to do with it.
If she’s lost the ability to perform, then that’s one thing, if she’s losing her ‘athletic’ (read skinny) figure then that’s not a problem. I never thought she looked that hawt in the first place, but I don’t think she looks much worse with a bit of meat on her. In fact she looks healthy. If we hold our icons to unnatural standards (after repeated childbirth) then what message to we send to the impressionable masses.
I mean…okay…so people aren’t neccessarily that impressionable (or maybe they are) but they’re aware of the pressure to be beautiful that has become the norm in our society.
Of COURSE we hold our icons to unnatural aesthetic standards: that’s why their icons. Britney Spears’ voice didn’t make her a star.
That is also one of the reasons there’s an endless opportunity to become a celebrity: because the ones that are celebs now can’t maintain that forever. Sometimes they come back, sometimes they don’t. Look at Affleck.
I’d rather not. That’s one face I can’t stomach.
And I think there’s a different between marketability and aesthetic standards. But I can’t really define my point better than that right now.
I never thought it was Spears’ look that made her a star, it was her image…a very different thing. More centred around her babyishness, raunchiness and her willingness to don a school girl uniform (and then excessive amounts of latex in some twisted downward spiral).
I don’t think at any point it had anything to do with precisely how skinny she was. And it certainly doesn’t need to be.
Anyway, I’m losing track of my point here…and I do loathe her (though Toxic remains an awesome pop-production diamond)…I just get wound up by this weight obsessed culture. Don’t bully her for getting fat, bully her for being rubbish.
You’re absolutely right that it was her image and her ability to live up to that image that made her a star. The totally sexy proclaimed-virgin schoolgirl thing is a guaranteed winner, as long as you look believable in the role. She doesn’t anymore, and the most obvious manifestation of that is that she doesn’t have a teenager’s body.
Kylie Minogue, to name someone similar, still does.