Even though Britney Spears has been on GMA and Jimmy Kimmel this year lazily performing songs from her latest album, it’s been eons since anyone saw her attempt actual choreography. With her U.S. tour starting in less than a month, fans are inevitably wondering whether the mother of two still has it in her to do any serious hoofing.
If her two performances at Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards are any indication, ticketholders for that tour should continue to set expectations low, since her moves weren’t anything that would win her a spot on So You Think You Can Wiggle. As for whether she’s gotten over her addiction to lip-synching, you’re still much more likely to hear Kurt Cobain sing live this year than you are Britney.
Both of Spears’ highly touted appearances on the Billboard Awards amounted to extended cameos, really. The three-hour telecast opened with Spears joining Rihanna nearly minutes into “S&M,” entering with her wrists cuffed together with very long chains, just as Rihanna’s were. The duet partners proceeded to suggestively writhe around separate poles before coming back together for a climactic pillow fight, as if to say, just kidding about the kinkiness! But Spears didn’t even come off well in that skuffle, barely raising her pillow above waist level.
It may be time to institute a rule that, for live TV duets, either both parties lip-synch or both sing live, as to avoid glaring mismatches of the sort that found Rihanna clearly using her own pipes and Spears clearly years beyond caring if her mouth remotely matches her electro-bot studio recordings.
Which is not to say that Rihanna came out ahead in every regard. Before Spears came out, some of the moves that Rihanna shared with her dancers—or rather, her dancers’ disembodied hands—were risible enough that it’s as if her choreographer wanted to make sure the star’s name and “class act” never appear in the same sentence again.
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez weren't the only ones smooching it up last night for the public. Did you see Britney and Rihanna kiss on stage at last night's Billboard Music Awards show?
No, you didn't. Because ABC cut to the audience when it happened.
After giving a pillow-fight-filled performance of their remix of Rihanna's S&M, RiRi grabbed Britney's face and planted a big wet one on her cheek.
Shades of Madonna and that 2003 kiss with Britney at MTV's Video Music Awards, eh?
For the next two and a half hours, the show teased the reappearance of Spears, who eventually came out in the middle of a Nicki Minaj number. Well, “middle” is a misnomer: Britney actually came out to sing exactly 45 seconds of her current single, “Till the World Ends,” while dancing every bit as energetically as in her first appearance—which is to say that she appeared to be conserving her energy for the tour. Or perhaps she thought, like some folks, that the world would be ending the previous day, and thus the lack of prep!
via musicboxmix.net & usatoday
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