Britney At The O2

I absolutely love Britney's Femme Fatale album, it is exactly how a pop record should sound and it is as near pop perfection as you can get. Although I said I wouldn't go and see her live shows again when the dates were released for the promotion of this album I forked out my £70 on pre sale to get a good seat. I started to get worried as the day got nearer and I was inundated with emails for half price and then £25 tickets, which when I checked were all great seats in every arena on her UK tour.

Still I hauled arse over to The O2 last night and as the lights dimmed and the familiar It's Britney Bitch bounced around the embarrassingly empty arena I kinda wished I was home listening to the album. At her comeback show The Circus she looked amazing and the show had all the bells, whistles and special effects you expect in a major production. The FF show though just looked cheap and lame. A somewhat bloated Britney, with nylon hair hanging down appeared through some manually sliding doors and proceeded to just go through the motions of walking back and forth, a bit of hand waving and the choreography consisted of the odd bit of nylon hair swishing.

This is certainly not what you expect from an international millions of albums selling star on a global arena tour. Obviously she didn't sing, it was all lip syncing but I felt like I was watching a bad drag queen doing Britney on Canal Street not the real thing at The O2. She made no connection with the audience at all, just a Hi Y'all London and she seemed dead from the neck up.

There were some queens there screaming with joy just to be in her presence, she only had to manage to walk and 2 in front of me were squealing (they had boa's) but looking around the audience the majority were just standing in disbelief like myself. People were leaving, not in droves like at Whitney but a steady trickle throughout the show. She just seemed highly medicated and not sure where she was or why she was even there. Checking Twitter after I read Making a bear dance on hot bricks is less cruel than making Britney 2011 go on tour and that summed it up perfectly. I just felt really shocked that such a glittering career had turned into this freak show.

I will never go to a Britney show again, it is beyond cruel and basically there is no point. I just felt very sad about the whole thing.