Ok, so Amy, Sangee, Cheryl and I had bought Britney's Circus Tour tickets months ago and we were pretty psyched to be a part of it. So on Friday the 13th Nov we headed down to the Rod Laver Arena (yup, 7 years in Melbourne and I've never once been inside it) for some action.
I've followed Britney's career since I was 13 years old. That's 11 close to 12 freaking years. Granted, she's a crap singer and a crazy person sometimes (well most times) but there's just something about her music that's catchy and fun and it goes 'round and 'round your head until your brain sometimes wants to beg it to stop.
Britney's never been down under in her entire life so we were quite lucky to be able to catch a glimpse of her. Check her Circus tent out selling all sorts of merchandise. We wanted to get t-shirts but unfortunately they were so freaking expensive ($50 each) and fugly that we just couldn't make ourselves do it.
That's us in our seats farrrrrrrrrr away from the action. The crazy people who paid for the action paid $500 - $1500 for arm's length seats. We were cheapskate so we bought the 2nd cheapest seats. The only time I'm going to pay for those is if I actually get to touch Britney or if she gives me a lap dance at least.
Let's play a game I like to call 'Spot Britney' (geddit? Cuz she's so small she's like a spot?? Awww comeon that was lameass funny)!:
See how there are 3 stages in the 360*C arena?? Britney had to divide herself between 3 stages all whilst twirling around 4 sides so that everyone could get a 25% glimpse of her face and spend the other 75% of her song watching her backside.
Curtain of sparks come down after Britney's last song
I have to say, I wasn't impressed. You know, people made a HUGE deal out of her lip-synching during the concert. Like dude, as if she's ever sung live in public EVER! I can't believe people are shocked to hear this! They must have been living in a parallel universe all this while where there's this Britney who can sing beautifully and perfectly live *doh!*. The only song she sang live was 'Everytime' and she didn't even finish it. I have to say that it sounded very similar to the CD version though. Hmm.
Anyways, I was annoyed because we were there at 8pm right, because that's when the concert was supposed to start. So yes, the opening act, DJ Havanna Brown, supposedly the best DJ in Australia, but no one's ever heard of her, started off on stage doing one of her awesome mixes which included songs from Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga (at that point Sangee and I almost wished we were at a BEP's concert). Did I mention that she looked like Lady Gaga? She was on-stage for a whole 20mins doing what DJs do best, standing behind the turntable and occasionally running from stage to stage trying to rev up the crowd.
And then she disappeared and we were left sitting there in the quiet for 40mins just waiting for something to happen.
When something finally happened, Britney said only 2 sentences to the crowd the whole concert. There were also long costume changes, sometimes with her Circus acrobats and dancers to entertain us (sorry pals, I know you're working your butt off more than Britney is and you're getting paid a lot less, but reality is, no one's here to see you) and sometimes there was nothing on stage but a screen playing videos of her. These were really anti-climax moments which kindda killed the mood for me. Of course it didn't help that we were sitting right at the back and could hardly see her - lucky she's blonde or else it'll be even tougher.
The good parts of the concert were that her dancing was fantastic, as usual, and that even though she's now a mom and she's been through a whole hell lot (esp the crazy parts), she's still got IT. I don't really know what 'IT' is, but she's got IT. I wouldn't pay to watch her again, but I didn't regret watching her this once. And of course, the fun-nest bits were hanging out with mah chicks and watching Amy boogie down to 'I'm a Slave 4U' like she was in a nightclub.
Rod Laver, smoking up after the concert
After that we went to supper at China Bar @The Glen 'cos we were starving and guess who we met?
A fellow Britney fan (check out his t-shirt with the tour dates)!
What a night.
Yinny was Joshing around @ 1:37 PM
