As the aboriginal Queen of Pop, the bogeyman of Madonna looms ample over aggregate Britney Spears does, whether the adolescent brilliant is allure altercation with arch lyrics, askew her way through a blue video or importing nuggets of Eastern cultures. Last night in Uniondale, Continued Island, at Spears' fifth appearance on her Circus tour, Madonna wasn't just aerial figuratively: just afore the final song, a spotlight beamed into the admirers and afire the way as Madonna herself was aerated from her bench to the door.
Over the above-mentioned 90 minutes, Spears danced her way through her own estimation of an art anatomy Madonna has birthed and able over her 25-year career - the pop concert as ultimate spectacle. The tour, directed by longtime Madonna assistant Jamie King, featured several hallmarks of the Material Girl's contempo alley trips, from Britney's accession (a affecting bead from the ceiling) and aperture number, "Circus" (Spears grasped a benumbed crop as dancers in chains accessory toted her about the stage) to a abrupt layover to South Asia (for a Bollywood-inspired remix of "Me Against the Music") and busy video interludes that anesthetized time as Spears again exchanged one sparkly, deficient accouterments for another. (Check out photos from Britney's Circus here.)
What Britney didn't do was sing live, actively appoint the admirers or deeply hit a lot of of her choreography. But these flaws were of little affair to the army of 17,000 arrest admirers clutching cameras and accoutrements of Circus-branded popcorn. Ten account afore Spears took the three-ringed date in the centermost of the arena, chants of "Britney" echoed about Nassau Coliseum, and if the accompanist emerged the army of tweens, adolescence and twentysomething females seemed artlessly captivated to see her. If Circus was appear in December 2008, the album's appellation could accept referred to the media aberration surrounding Spears' life, or the fog of alternation that landed her in the hospital and adjust during a two-year breakdown. Today, Spears' Circus is a abode area acrobats brandish from the ceiling. It's a arresting turnaround in a abbreviate aeon of time, and one that highlights the agitation over just how abundant of the Britney Spears appearance is an illusion. But because area she's been over the accomplished few years, Britney was back.
Spears wasn't absorbed in gazing at the past, absorption the majority of her set on her a lot of contempo two albums, Circus and Blackout. "Circus" was comedy to the point of distraction, with so abounding aerialists, jets of steam, aflame lights and affective hoops that it was harder to atom Spears dancing in the fray. One song later, she was trapped in a cage for "Piece of Me," absolution herself in the end. Nearly bisected the numbers featured the brilliant getting abject about the date on some wheeled prop, and a array of poles fabricated their way into the set, appropriately illustrating the breach demographic Spears has continued struggled to reconcile: were they meant to be interpreted as stripper poles or blatant Big Top covering poles? Was Britney added adequate fluctuant beneath a macho ballerina during "Touch of My Hand" or coiled in the alcove of a behemothic absurd awning for affecting carol "Everytime"?
Some of the show's a lot of camp moments seemed to accept little affiliation to the set's flow. Spears lip synched to Marilyn Manson's awful awning of "Sweet Dreams (Are Fabricated of This)" in a video abandoning Eyes Wide Shut; a abandoned guitarist army the date and wailed for several account afore blame into a rocked-out adaptation of "Do Something"; advancement dancers acclimatized to accepted hits like T.I. and Jay-Z's "Swagga Like Us," Rihanna's "Don't Stop the Music" and Ne-Yo's "Closer" just afore the anxiously accessible "Toxic." Some scenes seemed ample with meaning, like if Spears was bent in a anatomy - a behemothic account frame, rather than a photographers' lens - for "Breathe on Me", while others seemed whimsical, like at the end of "Boys," if Spears playfully bopped her macho dancers on the arch with a behemothic blush mallet.
The allowance angry absolutely electric just alert afterwards the aperture amount - for a about austere adaptation of "Slave 4 U" that featured some of the night's best choreography, and the penultimate song, a additional remix of "... Baby One Added Time" that yanked about aggregate but Spears' articulate and a booming beat. For all the clothes she bald off onstage, "Baby" larboard Spears the a lot of bald and served as addition able admonition of how her absolute career has been congenital on adverse letters of admiration and naiveté. America hasn't been able to let Spears fly her aberration banderole because her female and abandon accept consistently been at allowance and beneath others' control. So if the Princess of Pop emerged for her final number, "Womanizer," dressed up in a policewoman's guise, she seemed acquisitive to grab some ability aback for herself. But by again the a lot of able woman in the room, the one she'd been so aggressive by, had already fabricated her exit.
Set List: "Circus"
"Piece of Me"
"Radar"
"Ooh Ooh Baby"
"Hot as Ice"
"Boys"
"If U Seek Amy"
"Me Against the Music"
"Everytime"
"Freakshow"
"Get Naked"
"Breathe on Me"
"Touch of My Hand"
"Do Something"
"Slave 4 U"
"Toxic"
" ... Baby One Added Time"
"Womanizer"
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