Britney Spears: Artist Discussion

[BOBO]

Britney's laugh is everything!

[wavey.]

I was about to say who tf is Nosejobney?

[upsidedown]

Feb 25, 2015 2:28:26 GMT -5 musiclover98 said:

Britney is one of the most tragic pop legends. She is still here physically...but that fiery spirit was extinguished years ago. I hope she is happy behind closed doors, but she seems incredibly vacant most of time.

I could show you a ton of videos from Vegas that completely destroy what you just said, but it's clear that you're one of those sad people that will think negatively of her no matter what she does.

[musiclover98]

Feb 25, 2015 16:38:40 GMT -5 upsidedown said:

Feb 25, 2015 2:28:26 GMT -5 musiclover98 said:

Britney is one of the most tragic pop legends. She is still here physically...but that fiery spirit was extinguished years ago. I hope she is happy behind closed doors, but she seems incredibly vacant most of time.

I could show you a ton of videos from Vegas that completely destroy what you just said, but it's clear that you're one of those sad people that will think negatively of her no matter what she does.

I don't think of her nagatively. I think she is one of the most brilliant performers of the last two decades. I also think she's a brilliant artist who can write incredible songs that some current songwriters could only dream of writing. I was commenting specifically on her current state in comparison to who she was at the time of that interview posted on the previous page. Yes people change over the years but I still think she's amazing. I also think her potential as an ARTIST is being squandered. I've been keeping up with her performances in Vegas. I know how well she's doing. She is a pop music legend and has nothing to prove.

[Keelzit]

I pray for the day she finally performs Criminal. That little song is so underrated but it's definitely one of the most interesting tunes on her discography. Still slays me 4 years after gracing my ears for the 1st time.

[Anticonformity]

I wanna live in the world that some of these peeps are living in where A. you don't change even a little in say 10 years and B. you go thru shit and nothing about you has changed

Life has fucked me up a lot over the years and is someone was like "ZOMG YOURE NOT THE SAME YOU WERE X YEARS AGO YOURE NO LONGER XYZ" id be like no shit, pain does that to peeps ._________.

[BOBO]

2/25/2015 Meet & Greet POM

Awkwardney was not present last night! This guy met Britney!

[Ginger Spice]

She still looks rather awkward, but at least she's making physical contact. I better get to hug you if I'm giving you $2k.

[BOBO]

Meet & Greet at the Zoo tonight!

[ILLUSION]

That smile doe

[Anticonformity]

OMFG I love her so much! Such a fucking dork yet so sexy like ... everything I want in a girl X'D lmfao

[josh]

X'D

[think pink.]

Y'all shut up about awkwardney now. Look at this adorable muffin

http://instagr.am/p/zllIQFxovi

"You taught me how to be a woman!"

Me too gorl, me too :'( .

[ClevelandRox]

It took me over five minutes to find this thread.

[Eqbk]

[think pink.]

I'll say it until I'm dead to the bed that the "Do Somethin'" video is absolute perfection. As is the song.

[tamed09]

m.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdJ2XSYlUo

First single ft Iggy coming really soon! Go to the 30 minute mark

[Ginger Spice]

I can't wait for the song to come out so she'll finally shut up about it.

[BOBO]

Britney & Steven Tyler last night at POM

[Mack]

Feb 27, 2015 23:00:12 GMT -5 think pink. said:

I'll say it until I'm dead to the bed that the "Do Somethin'" video is absolute perfection. As is the song.

Totally agreed. That video is one of my favorites of hers, if not my actual favorite. It's really simple, but she looks so fucking good in it.

[Eqbk]

Bits of the VMA Gimme More rehearsal vids have been leaking:

https://instagram.com/p/zn0Bdzteuz

https://instagram.com/p/zpw6o1Nehh

[think pink.]

<3

[KissMyAxe]

I wonder what happened with her during the live performance of Gimme More. Few years ago i watched a rehearsal video and she was on FIRE she killed the choreography. Although IMO the live performance wasn't as awful as people think, i definitely think that something happened before she went on stage

[upsidedown]

She murdered it last night.

Work Bitch:

http://instagram.com/p/zrZnyPMJX2

BOMT:

http://instagram.com/p/zrWpYgMJUs

BTI:

http://instagram.com/p/zrZBpLMJXJ

[Eqbk]

Mar 1, 2015 11:57:09 GMT -5 KissMyAxe said:

I wonder what happened with her during the live performance of Gimme More. Few years ago i watched a rehearsal video and she was on FIRE she killed the choreography. Although IMO the live performance wasn't as awful as people think, i definitely think that something happened before she went on stage

An excerpt from the book Britney: Inside the Dream by Steve Dennis:

Seven minutes before her live performance, Britney’s dressing room door opened and a collective look of horror fell upon the faces of her management team.

“What the f***?” shouted one.

It was immediately clear that her much-hyped comeback was about to become car crash TV, a global display of a pop star unravelling.

At the MTV Video Music Awards, Britney had pledged to show everyone “the bitch is back”.

In front of millions of fans, and some sceptical industry bosses, she had to prove that despite the messy divorce, custody battle, head shaving and stints in rehab, she still had the talent that had made her a global phenomenon.

Now, for the first time, the backstage events leading up to that disastrous performance can be revealed.

Raged

Efforts were made to ensure it all went smoothly. Britney had rehearsed for five weeks with handpicked dancers.

She had got Dita Von Teese’s stylist Trish Somerville, to create a flattering black one-piece for the make-or-break performance. And she had managed to secure the services of Ken Paves, dubbed Hollywood’s hottest hairdresser.

But Britney herself managed to ruin the most important performance of her life. Hours before the show, her anxieties raged. She decided it was a good idea to start drinking tequila shots to calm her nerves – one after the other.

Her prickliness wasn’t helped when her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake popped by to say good luck.

“He was cool and couldn’t have been friendlier, but that wigged her out more,” says a backstage source. “She was freaking out over the littlest thing.”

Her low self-esteem, until now hidden, was making itself known as anger and a difficult attitude. And the sagas of the previous months were all stirred up by the pressure to deliver.

Britney was terrified, and the good luck gesture from Justin was a final reminder that this was a huge broadcast.

Unworthy in her own mind, she would render herself unworthy in public.

The source says: “Brit is someone wanting to be loved, not used, not treated like a robot, not there for everyone else to make money, and not working all the time. It was inevitable she was going to reach the ‘F*** it! F*** you!’ stage. The great sadness is that she reached it in the run-up to this big moment.”

Ninety minutes before the show, Ken Paves entered the dressing room with an assistant, carrying golden hair extensions in his little box. “I don’t like him! I want his assistant,” announced Britney.

The assistant pledged her loyalty to Ken and Britney instructed her bodyguard to forcibly remove Ken from the room

In the corridor outside, observers saw Ken being shoved out the door, remonstrating: “I’ve never been so insulted in my life!” He was still carrying Britney’s hair extensions, tissue-wrapped.

Then word came through to management: “Britney’s just fired Ken Paves.” As they gained access to her dressing room, she explained she didn’t like his attitude.

“That’s great Britney, but you need him right now. He has your hair extensions,” she was told.

Britney, whose hair was still short following her head-shaving incident, pondered this reality: “OK then, he can come back.” But after retreating to his hotel room, Ken Paves wasn’t answering his phone or his door.

Fishnets

Britney seemed oblivious to the distress she had caused. And it dawned on MTV that their opening act was playing up – and she had no hair.

Nelly Furtado’s stylist came to the rescue, but Britney still needed hair extensions – from the hotel’s salon. The source says: “By now everyone was frying.”

In her dressing room, Britney was knocking back another shot. Once the stylist had saved the day, everyone was asked to leave so that Britney could slip into her striking Trish Somerville one-piece.

Instead she emerged in a black bra, black hotpants and fishnets, showing an unflattering paunch.

Britney’s reps insisted she change.

“It’s too f***ing late! We’ve got to get her on stage!” shouted an MTV assistant.

The source says: “Everyone knew it all hinged on her hitting the first line we’d rehearsed to a T – look down the camera on a close-up and lip-sync, ‘It’s Britney, bitch!’ If she could hold that line, and get through, she’d won.

“But the music started, and she stood and stared at the camera without moving her lips. At that moment, we knew it was over.”

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Mar 1, 2015 14:02:06 GMT -5 Eqbk said:

Mar 1, 2015 11:57:09 GMT -5 KissMyAxe said:

I wonder what happened with her during the live performance of Gimme More. Few years ago i watched a rehearsal video and she was on FIRE she killed the choreography. Although IMO the live performance wasn't as awful as people think, i definitely think that something happened before she went on stage

An excerpt from the book Britney: Inside the Dream by Steve Dennis:

Seven minutes before her live performance, Britney’s dressing room door opened and a collective look of horror fell upon the faces of her management team.

“What the f***?” shouted one.

It was immediately clear that her much-hyped comeback was about to become car crash TV, a global display of a pop star unravelling.

At the MTV Video Music Awards, Britney had pledged to show everyone “the bitch is back”.

In front of millions of fans, and some sceptical industry bosses, she had to prove that despite the messy divorce, custody battle, head shaving and stints in rehab, she still had the talent that had made her a global phenomenon.

Now, for the first time, the backstage events leading up to that disastrous performance can be revealed.

Raged

Efforts were made to ensure it all went smoothly. Britney had rehearsed for five weeks with handpicked dancers.

She had got Dita Von Teese’s stylist Trish Somerville, to create a flattering black one-piece for the make-or-break performance. And she had managed to secure the services of Ken Paves, dubbed Hollywood’s hottest hairdresser.

But Britney herself managed to ruin the most important performance of her life. Hours before the show, her anxieties raged. She decided it was a good idea to start drinking tequila shots to calm her nerves – one after the other.

Her prickliness wasn’t helped when her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake popped by to say good luck.

“He was cool and couldn’t have been friendlier, but that wigged her out more,” says a backstage source. “She was freaking out over the littlest thing.”

Her low self-esteem, until now hidden, was making itself known as anger and a difficult attitude. And the sagas of the previous months were all stirred up by the pressure to deliver.

Britney was terrified, and the good luck gesture from Justin was a final reminder that this was a huge broadcast.

Unworthy in her own mind, she would render herself unworthy in public.

The source says: “Brit is someone wanting to be loved, not used, not treated like a robot, not there for everyone else to make money, and not working all the time. It was inevitable she was going to reach the ‘F*** it! F*** you!’ stage. The great sadness is that she reached it in the run-up to this big moment.”

Ninety minutes before the show, Ken Paves entered the dressing room with an assistant, carrying golden hair extensions in his little box. “I don’t like him! I want his assistant,” announced Britney.

The assistant pledged her loyalty to Ken and Britney instructed her bodyguard to forcibly remove Ken from the room

In the corridor outside, observers saw Ken being shoved out the door, remonstrating: “I’ve never been so insulted in my life!” He was still carrying Britney’s hair extensions, tissue-wrapped.

Then word came through to management: “Britney’s just fired Ken Paves.” As they gained access to her dressing room, she explained she didn’t like his attitude.

“That’s great Britney, but you need him right now. He has your hair extensions,” she was told.

Britney, whose hair was still short following her head-shaving incident, pondered this reality: “OK then, he can come back.” But after retreating to his hotel room, Ken Paves wasn’t answering his phone or his door.

Fishnets

Britney seemed oblivious to the distress she had caused. And it dawned on MTV that their opening act was playing up – and she had no hair.

Nelly Furtado’s stylist came to the rescue, but Britney still needed hair extensions – from the hotel’s salon. The source says: “By now everyone was frying.”

In her dressing room, Britney was knocking back another shot. Once the stylist had saved the day, everyone was asked to leave so that Britney could slip into her striking Trish Somerville one-piece.

Instead she emerged in a black bra, black hotpants and fishnets, showing an unflattering paunch.

Britney’s reps insisted she change.

“It’s too f***ing late! We’ve got to get her on stage!” shouted an MTV assistant.

The source says: “Everyone knew it all hinged on her hitting the first line we’d rehearsed to a T – look down the camera on a close-up and lip-sync, ‘It’s Britney, bitch!’ If she could hold that line, and get through, she’d won.

“But the music started, and she stood and stared at the camera without moving her lips. At that moment, we knew it was over.”

This is so sad, poor Britney ):

[surfy]

Gosh... she went through a lot of s**t.

Is that VMA performance the trainwreck that everyone was talking about? (Including iCarly which had the Ginger Fox episode?) Because I looked up the performance, it really wasn't that awful. Given the circumstances.

[Mack]

That Inside the Dream book is so good. I think I've read it 2 or 3 times by now. Even though a lot of the info in it has never been verified and is just based on "sources," it's really interesting. And the author is never mean toward Britney. I read another biography about her called Not That Innocent, and it was just awful...the author was so rude and demeaning, and that was even before 2006-08 happened.

[Love Plastic Love]

I literally can't even sit through that performance anymore. Like, Britney was always fire onstage, ALWAYS and watching her stumble around confused not even bothering to lip sometimes...like, it still makes my chest hurt a bit. I feel like we were watching a genuine low point even though she arguably had more dramatic low points in that entire era. It is genuinely good to see smiling and performing much better today.

[Mack]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think a lot of people* had such a problem with the performance because of her appearance. Had she gone out there thin or in a more flattering outfit, with a quality weave, and put on the same performance, it probably would have been better received. But because she looked a mess, people tore her apart. I just remember that a lot of the articles after the fact attacked her weight more so than the actual performance (TMZ's headline was something like, "Britney looks as big as a house!"). Re-watching the performance now, it really isn't as awful as it's been made out to be. Yeah, it wasn't good, but she hit all of the moves (albeit not with much energy). I definitely don't think she seemed confused or out of it, either; she just didn't give a f**k.

*I'm not referring to anyone specifically, so no one take offense.