Britney Spears' tears after MTV comeback disaster

Honey · September 11th, 2007, 02:23 PM

Britney Spears broke down in a flood of tears following her disastrous appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.

The troubled singer was seen "crying badly" backstage following the heavily criticised performance of her new single Gimme More.

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Devastated: the pop star arrived at the airport ready to return to LA after her embarrassing performance

Tears: Britney, spotted here the night after the MTV Awards, was seen crying backstage after the performance

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A source told Us magazine: "She's devastated. She was really nervous and knows she screwed up."

Another insider told American magazine People: "She was extremely nervous. It's been a while since she's done this, and she was performing in front of all her peers, on live TV. She just got out there and froze."

"People who were at rehearsal saw something else. It was good. It really was."

It was meant to her return to showbusiness after months when it looked like she was on the brink of self-destruction.

But her appearance even was a shambles, with critics deriding her return to the stage as "painful and embarrassing".
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Comeback comedown: Britney's MTV performance proved a huge disappointment for fans and critics

Her miming and dancing was out of time as she shuffled sluggishly round the stage in a sequinned bra and hot pants.

Guests reported she looked "like a zombie", was "unprepared" and "half asleep" in a lazy show-opening performance leagues removed from the energetic routines which first brought her to fame eight years ago.

And music critics and reviewers lined up to give dismal reviews of the show.

One critic called the performance - during which a male backing dancer appeared to struggle under the weight of Miss Spears - "painful and embarrassing".
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Another respected music reviewer wrote: "As in most train wrecks, it was hard to focus on just one thing as the Britney Spears disaster unfolded.

"There was just so much that went wrong. Out-of-synch lip-synching. Lethargic movements that seemed choreographed by a dance instructor for a nursing home. The paunch in place of Spears' once-taut belly.

"At times she just stopped singing altogether, as if even she knew nothing could save her performance."
Yet another wrote: "It was little more than an overhyped burlesque show that went splat."

Britney's tears after MTV comeback disaster | the Daily Mail

Laxmobster · September 11th, 2007, 02:27 PM

That last picture is priceless!!!

Bijoux · September 11th, 2007, 02:34 PM

As God as my witness I will NEVER eat another cheeto as long as i live!

Griffo · September 11th, 2007, 02:41 PM

How do you cry badly?
She is a tosser.

Bijoux · September 11th, 2007, 02:45 PM

At least she knows she effed up big time. Maybe...just maybe...she'll get back on track now. Or at least lose the stripper outfits! Pppff ...who am i kidding. This IS Britney Spears ya'll!

LynnieD · September 11th, 2007, 02:47 PM

God, this is funnier than hell.

Merlot-N-Bali · September 11th, 2007, 02:48 PM

Cry for the cameras, Britney.

VenusInFauxFurs · September 11th, 2007, 02:49 PM

Boo-fricken-hoo-hoo

no, wait we saw your hoo-hoo yesterday.

sweetrebel · September 11th, 2007, 03:21 PM

I still can't get past the reference to her being fat. No, she isn't in shape like she was a few years ago, but her body doesn't look bad.
If she is fat, I am a fucking beached whale...

NoNoRehab · September 11th, 2007, 03:28 PM

This is a fucking awesome article from MSNBC:

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Oh, darlings. Guess why Britney crammed herself into that spangled bikini to begin with. We’ve thrown movie deals and endorsements and limos at her this past decade for doing so. She parades before us as a pile of flesh, and thusly shall we judge her. She hadn’t yet learned that she was no longer holding up her end of the deal.
I wrote about four years ago that Spears doesn't sing onstage because Spears doesn't have to. She is a graduate of the Madonna School of Two-Note Vocal Range Music: thrust, synthesized stomp, and in the morning call the Toys R Us people marketing your 12-inch doll self to second graders. Who needs talent when you have a padded bra? With sequins?
It was never the music. It was the strip show Spears delivered against well-arranged thumping bass, and — bearing in mind that I type this as a person who, during a recent move, unearthed not one, but three New Kids on the Block VHS video collections — we must come to terms with the fact that we never paid Britney Spears to sing. We paid her to dance, and be nubile, and hit the AbMaster. Oh, and move her lips in the general direction of the faux microphone every so often. Keeping up appearances, you know.
This isn’t about weight, either. It’s about Spears symbolizing a disturbing trend of equating inappropriately young sexiness with success, with some twisted form of feminism. She certainly didn’t have a problem riding (and I do not use that verb lightly) a highly sexualized image to a massive, massive amount of money and fame. And now that childbearing and simple metabolism has made that no longer possible? Well. Then Dr Phil, of all people, will call your halfhearted grinds a “train wreck,” and commenters on YouTube will bewail your thighs, thighs that leave the dent of finger marks when the male backup dancers try to grope you through your fishnet stockings.
And so then we had what we had on Sunday night, which was a woman completely OK with beginning her number after having introduced herself thusly: “It’s Britney, bitch!”

Ravenna · September 11th, 2007, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by sweetrebel

I still can't get past the reference to her being fat. No, she isn't in shape like she was a few years ago, but her body doesn't look bad.
If she is fat, I am a fucking beached whale...

She's not fat, she's just ... too fat for that.

I'm kinda, sorta, almost starting to feel sorry for her. Just a little bit. But it's Britney, it won't last long.

Honey · September 11th, 2007, 03:55 PM

Not fat at all. But she did pick a TERRIBLE outfit so we can laugh away all we like!

aabbcc · September 11th, 2007, 04:00 PM

If those boobs were pushed up any higher, they'd slap her in the face.

sluce · September 11th, 2007, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Bijoux

At least she knows she effed up big time. Maybe...just maybe...she'll get back on track now. Or at least lose the stripper outfits! Pppff ...who am i kidding. This IS Britney Spears ya'll!

Correction: It's Britney Bitch!

nephillygirl · September 11th, 2007, 04:15 PM

believe me, I am the last person on the britney train, but this kid has got some MAJOR (and I use Posh's term emphatically) issues that need to be dealt with or those poor little boys are gonna wind up without a mother and only k-fed to raise them