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Britney Spears performs Work B*tch LIVE for the first time!
And she was sensational!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8AS38CKihY
Great to see her putting effort into her dancing again:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8AS38CKihY
Great to see her putting effort into her dancing again:)
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When I was growing up Britney's dancing used to SLAY, that's why it's been so disappointing these last few eras because the performances have just been garbage.
This looks much better though
How on earth do you expect her to sing live when she's dancing like that?
I think people need to get over Britney and singing live. I dont think she's ever sung live, even when she first started, other than singing ballads on her Onyx Hotel Tour.
I don't understand why it only seem to be Britney who gets the lion's share of attack for miming.
The sad part is that some people don't care and let these cheap imitations of "singers" get away with it...
The Outrageous music video shoot was the last time that "real" Britney appeared. Sorry, but I don't think this performance was that great. She was stumbling through some of the moves and I don't think the routine was that hard to begin with.
It's the most energetic I've seen her perform in a long time, but I'm not sure if that's something the fans should be so excited about.
I suppose this Vegas residency could help her get back in top shape if she has 5 or 6 shows a week for a good while, and let's hope her energy, dancing & stamina will improve (fast hopefully, people are paying good money to see her, so I hope that they will get a show as spectacular as they hope!). Or this could lead her to exhaustion...
I haven't read the details about this: how many shows does she do a week, and for how long?
As to singing live: I suppose those who buy tickets don't care if she lip-syncs & they want some spectacular staging & dancing to some of their favourite Britney pop tunes, so Britney & her team will hopfully do their best to deliver that.
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She should ALWAYS mime
She gets the almost-legendary pop star tag and therefore people frown upon her being blatantly shit...
As for the miming, I think it's a bloody disgrace that people even try to justify that. She is so complacent and lazy that she doesn't even attempt to sing. What exactly are people paying to see? I'd be fairly confident that half the girls in the audience could get up on stage and dance just as well as she does here, while miming to her tracks. So why the hell is she getting paid a fortune for it? I just don't understand it at all. She is actively proving that she has little to no natural talent or ability every time she gets on that stage and fakes it.
Really, if you think about it, she's not a singer at all because she doesn't actually sing a note. When she's on tour, she's really just a dancer now, and when she's getting outdanced by every one of her backing dancers ten times over, that's a pretty embarrassing position to be in really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G3dv1QDo2E
I'm going to forget about it, as I assumed straight away when she announced it that she wasn't going to sing much live no matter how many times she said that she was going to.
Spectacle wise, this show is up there with Circus as her best. Her dancing has definitely improved too, so much more slick and much more energy too.
From what I've seen of her videos, the mashup of Hit me Baby/Oops is AMAZING. PLEASE PLEASE check that out! Completely different to the original version, and the styling and look of it is so much more darker, modern and just genuinely brilliant!
This is precisely my point. What the hell does that mean? I would translate that as "This is a woman who cannot sing outside of a studio and lost any performance ability she had 6 years ago".
Why on earth shouldn't I expect a singer to actually sing? And on that note, it just goes to show how little she and her manager respect her fans when he blatantly lied in the interview he gave, by saying that she would be singing live for the whole show. http://www.nme.com/news/britney-spears/72887 is the link to it. It's all complete and utter lies.
And about the supposed live vocals on Work Bitch - I'm not really sure that can be counted. She certainly did not sing anything on it. At the very most she spoke some parts to it. What about the other 20 or so songs though?
She might as well be miming if her mic is on 10% and the studio vocals are on 90% volume in all the performances.
She even did it with Perfume, a ballad, with no choreography. Standing still. Embarrassingly lazy. I've defended Britney in the past as a performer but this is just a joke, especially when her team put out all those stories of "intense vocal training" and her "toughest show yet", only to have her walking around lip-syncing to a ballad.
I can hear her quite clearly though...
I'm hoping I get to go to Las Vegas in the summer even if it means going alone.