The setup was grand – a busy stage stocked with metal scaffolding, stairs, a circular video screen and hydraulics.
The set list was curious – a cover of Rihanna’s “S&M” instead of another of her own numerous hits, even if she is on the remix? The full but not-quite-sold-out audience was super-stoked – of course their heroine can never, ever be considered anything less than perfect.
And yet Britney Spears looked bored, a Robo-Barbie slogging through dance moves that used to crackle with confidence and singing (well, not really) a string of club thumpers virtually indistinguishable from one another. Read more…
