Britney Spears at Staples Center: Concert Review
When you think of Britney Spears , certain adjectives and iconic images immediately come to mind -- the sexy, seductive, fierce star, belly-bared and draped in a giant boa, adorned in diamonds, clad in a red cat suit or provocatively strutting in a catholic school girl uniform. At her career apex around the turn of the millennium, Spears was a vision of pop marketing perfected: a girl sweet enough so as not to turn off her fellow females and at the same time, a foxy fantasy to titillate their male counterparts.
But the Britney Spears of 2011, currently on week one of her Femme Fatale tour, is a different animal: one who’s seated for nearly half of her 90-minute set, who doesn’t quite have that spring in her dance step anymore and who requires a constant barrage of visual distractions while she mostly lip-synchs along to her hits.
That’s not to say that Spears’ show isn’t entertaining, mind you. With theatrics that bring to life a sexy assassin subplot, elaborate stage sets (cages, a pink motorcycle, a giant dragon boat) and a slew of dancers who effortlessly camouflage Spears’ less energetic numbers (and Spears had her share on Monday at L.A.’s Staples Center, though not quite on the level of her GMA performance from March), Femme Fatale features bells and whistles out the yin-yang in a sort of sugary rush that’s not unlike going to Disneyland -- which is, of course, highly appropriate considering Spears got her first taste of fame on the Mickey Mouse Club.
Opening with “Hold It Against Me,” the now seasoned 29-year-old Spears emerged seated in a giant white throne and from there, entered a cage for the song “Up N Down." She sat again (on some boxes this time) during “Big Fat Bass,” a new track featuring Will.I.Am , and once more two songs later when she rode a pink convertible fit for a life-sized Barbie like herself, soon after taking position atop the lap of a fan plucked from the crowd.
Spears’s posturing continued for the suggestive “If You Seek Amy” and a slowed down version of her breakout hit, “Baby One More Time,” but even with the police-like figures dressed in leather, it didn’t have the menacing sexual intensity of Madonna ’s stage show or, to quote Rihanna , “the smell of it.” Speaking of Brit’s contemporary, the crowd went nuts when Spears doled out a snippet of Rihanna’s “S&M,” the same verse she sings on an alternate remix of the track. As for her idol Madge? Spears delivered a bubbly cover of 1983’s “Burning Up” while straddling a giant flying V guitar -- seated yet again.
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