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Words cannot express the disappointmentDec 15 '01 Write an essay on this topic.
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Okay, I'm getting ready to be really mean, but I can't help it. So, if you don't want to listen to my negativity, click out of here right now. Seriously. I love music. I really do. I will admit that I like all kinds of music and I watch way too much MTV. I really should think about growing up some time soon seeing as how I'm approaching 30 and I still love watching TRL. I like Britney. Well, at least I like her songs and her videos. Like I said before, I love all kinds of music and I'm not a music snob. I understand that there are those "artists" that write and perform their own music and that there are corporate machines like Britney that have been molded and marketed to make lots and lots of money. That's cool with me. If it's got a good beat and I can get jiggy with it to that particular song, it's all good. But let me say that it's just not fair. I am really irritated that I paid $144.60 for two tickets to watch somebody lip-synching the whole night. Yes, I paid $144.60 for two tickets. Let me explain. I took my little girl. She loves Britney Spears, as most 10 year olds in the country do. Fine. Two of my friends and I took our collection of four children ages 5 to 14 to see Miss Britney do her pelvic thrusts and lip-synch for less than two hours. We got there for the show to start at 7:30. The opening act was LFO. They were very good. They played their own instruments and held microphones and worked the crowd. I was very impressed with their performance and they got the crowd really pumped. Where it started to go bad was when they finished at about 8:15 and we had to sit there for about an hour and wait for Britney to come out. YOU try entertaining four children who have been in a car for two hours waiting to go to a concert. Not fun. Add to that the fact that the whole venue was full of children. Antsy, ranting, yelling, moving children. It was horrible. Okay, here comes Miss Britney. Oh wow. Look at the stage with all of the trap doors. Oh boy. Look at the pyro! Wow! Ohhhh! Here comes Britney...wait, she's lip-synching like a big dog. I watched Madonna on HBO and that chick can sing and dance like nobody's business. She does a series of 18 low squats during "Music" and never gets short of breath. But the music is real and she's really singing and that, my friends, is talent. Britney is talented too....but come on people. If you're such a star that you deserve your own HBO special and to get paid millions of dollars, sing the song yourself. Don't lip-synch it. And if you can't sing and dance at the same time without getting out of breath, then either sing OR dance. Do one or the other. This is really irritating. Another thing. I don't know if Britney and her people know it or not but we DO get HBO in this part of the country (Virginia and North Carolina) and I DID watch her special on HBO. How outraged I was when she sat down and had her one-on-one talk with the audience and it was the SAME EXACT THING, WORD FOR WORD, THAT SHE SAID TO THE AUDIENCE ON THE HBO SPECIAL!!!!! Britney, if you're going to lip-synch the whole show, at least have something genuine or spontaneous or original to say to us. JEEZ!!!! What's up with that? I mean, if they want to put me in a studio and let me sing, I can do this. They can doctor my voice up just like they do hers. I'm sure they go through take after take to get it to sound perfect for the CD. Then, they can play the CD while I dance onstage. Basically, she just acted out the songs. The costumes were nice, the dancing was entertaining. The songs sounded good. But damn it I paid all this money to see a performer, not to see her lip-synch. She actually sang, like, three songs...the slow ones. And she sounded pretty good. But come on people. I wish that I hadn't watched the HBO special before paying for the tickets to go see this show. Basically, I should have just watched it on HBO and let that be it. She had all these little video vignettes during the show and we couldn't even see them because the screens weren't facing our seats. That's another thing. Why do these arenas sell tickets for seats where you can't see the whole show? Why don't they just block that area off? The average age of spectators at this event was 10-15. Here's Britney scantily clad and doing repeated pelvic grinds and thrusts. How wonderful. I'm sure my 10 year old is enjoying herself. What got me was the finale. She "sang" her big hit "Hit Me Baby (One More Time)" dressed in a bikini top, low slung jeans, and a plastic cowboy hat. It was raining onstage and she was standing there, getting soaked. She rubbed herself all over and whipped around so that the water ran all off of her. Is this Flashdance? What the hell is going on? Please, I understand that you're "Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman", but you have children in your audience. I know that you want to grow up and all of this...I understand....but I just don't know if children need to be watching this and if you know that your general audience is children, don't you have a responsibility to them? I don't know, this sort of baffles me. I just would save my money and catch the HBO special or watch her videos on MTV. At least in those settings it's not so loud and you can see everything.  |
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