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I hope they add more props tonight.

Came back from Paris this morning. I gave my ticket to my cousin's cousin for last night's concert and she honestly couldn't stop hugging and thanking me, bless. I kept on telling her it was only fair because I'd seen a show in London and I told her to go and enjoy herself (she went with my cousin). They came back and she bought me a load of merchandise, it was so sweet of her and I felt that I couldn't accepting that much as it cost her loads, but my cousin and uncle told me to just take it (swing poster, neckalace, tote bag and mug)! They told me about the new song, Mannequin and they loved the BOMT, If U Seek Amy and Radar performances. They also said that Britney looked very different with brown hair :P aw. So they had a good time, my cousin's cousin was SOOO hyped up though (she's 15), ha :P

Before I left I watched the Mannequin performance on youtube and I must say it really wasn't great so I'm not bothered at all about missing it. Where on earth was the choreography from the leaked video from earlier this year? dissapointed.

Aw that's really sweet, Sophie! haha.

I think it'll be more revised later, because it was a first performance.

Lol, it was just funny cause I was picked up from the airport and taken to their house and I saw her and she went 'hope you have fun tonight, you're so lucky' and I went 'heya, lovely to meet you and no you have fun' *gives ticket* and she screamed and jamp on me! She was super hyper and she can't speak english that well she she was speaking 'frenglish' and I was just laughing going 'wtf' and then my cousins would be translating and laughing at the same time.. mad.

Yea, I know that.. but it was still not good. Idk, having seen her live her dancing looks far better in person that on youtube vids.

Did anyone watch Totally Saturday on Saturday? I'm watching it now.. Mollie from the Sats made a model of a set and a model Britney on tour.. when she was younger, pmsl.

Omg, Mannequin new song? :shocked:

Yeah, she performed it last night

Mannequin performance looks awesome! :hugesmile:

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Originally posted by Sophii3x
Where on earth was the choreography from the leaked video from earlier this year?

Well.. that was choereographed by Andre but he was dropped from the tour and replaced by JaQueal Knight, Tony Testa, Dreya Webber and Rujuta Vaidya.

I hope it gets better

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A new book called Tears, tantrums and tequila: Britney's toxic 'comeback'

Her shambolic MTV Awards performance two years ago is the stuff of pop legend. A new book reveals the extent of the backstage chaos that fateful night, writes Declan Cashin

It was meant to be the night of Britney Spears' big comeback following her spate of public breakdowns and humiliations. Instead, her shambolic appearance at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards almost buried the troubled pop princess' career once and for all.

Now a new book on the 28-year-old singer's extraordinary life has unearthed the gritty details and pieced together the backstage story about that fateful night when Britney, addled by too many tequila shots and a distracting visit from the one-time love of her life, truly fell apart.

Coming just months after her release from the Promises rehab facility in Malibu, and amidst an increasingly nasty custody battle with her soon-to-be ex-husband Kevin Federline, Britney's emotional state was already fraught enough without the added pressure of having to perform at one of showbiz's premiere events in an attempt to resurrect a flagging career.

But Britney's label, Jive Records, and her newly appointed talent managers, The Firm, were determined that the singer blitz the show to support her new album, Blackout, which was attracting strong reviews on the back of its signature track 'Gimme More'.

Her team were confident that the performer of old would turn up to pull off the comeback, but MTV executives weren't convinced. They insisted that Britney start rehearsing a full five weeks before the VMA show was due to air on September 9 from the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas.

Reluctantly, Britney went along with the station's demands. In order to make sure that she was focussed and working hard during rehearsals, MTV refused to pay her fee upfront as had happened in the past, but rather released the cash in staggered payments.

With two weeks to go, Britney had, by all accounts, mastered the routine to 'Gimme More'. She was synced with her dancers, laughing and joking with them during their work-outs and run-throughs.

A star stylist, Trish Somerville, was drafted in to design a tasteful, classy one-piece outfit for the night, while Ken Paves, dubbed "the hottest hairdresser in Hollywood", was brought on board to craft extensions to disguise her short hair, which was still only growing back since she had famously shaved it all off in an LA barber's shop earlier in the year.

Three days before the VMAs, Britney and her entourage arrived in Vegas, and checked into her suite in the Palms.

She rehearsed that morning on stage and, while her performance wasn't as strong as it had been during the earlier rehearsal period, everyone still believed Britney was on track.

The night before the show, Britney was expected to attend a pre-award party at the Hard Rock Hotel and then get an early night. Instead, she hit the club scene with her assistant Alli Sims, partying with P Diddy and producer Dallas Austin.

By 4am, Britney was still up and partying, with one source revealing that it was obvious she "had been drinking like a fish that night". Diddy had advised her to call it a night at 2am, but she refused.

The next morning, a hungover Britney slept in until noon. MTV producers were frantically calling Britney's management with their concerns about her state, but the show's head honchos were told: "She's practised the routine so many times she could do it with her eyes closed."

Ensconced in her dressing room, with just hours to go, Britney was growing anxious. She banned everyone but her assistant Sims from coming near her. She then started drinking shots of tequila -- lots of them by all accounts -- to calm her nerves.

Then, her ex-boyfriend, and childhood sweetheart, Justin Timberlake popped by to wish her good luck. "That definitely wigged her out more," a backstage source says.

Some 90 minutes before going live, hairstylist Paves arrived with the star's blonde extensions, but found he was now on Britney's blacklist. "I don't like him, I want his assistant," Britney is said to have cried, and then had her bodyguard remove Paves from the dressing room.

At this stage, MTV suits, and her own management, forced their way into Britney's dressing room and tried to reason with her. She subsequently agreed to let Paves do her hair, but the stylist was highly insulted and refused to come back down to help.

MTV stagehands had to rush to the hotel salon to find replacement extensions, and recruit Nelly Furtado's hairstylist. With that crisis averted, it was time to get Britney dressed in her Trish Somerville ensemble.

Again, the temperamental star locked herself away with just her assistant Sims. With 10 minutes to go, stagehands and management were banging on the door trying to gain entry. Finally, some seven minutes before she was due on stage as the opening act, Britney opened the door to horrified cries of "What the ******?"

She wasn't wearing the Somerville outfit, but instead was decked out in a black bra, black hot pants and fishnets, displaying an unsightly paunch, with the hotel's cheap hair extensions hanging uncomfortably from her head. Her reps begged her to hurry back in and change into the pre-arranged costume.

However, right at that moment, an MTV assistant appeared, screaming, "It's too late, it's too ******ing late! We've got to get her on stage!", and Britney was promptly frogmarched upstairs and put into position with her dancers.

"It all hinged on her hitting the first line we'd rehearsed to a tee: look down the camera on a close-up and lip-sync, 'It's Britney, bitch!'" an inside source says in the book. "If she could hold that line, and get through, we'd won. But the music started, she stood there and stared at the camera without moving her lips. She missed it completely. At that moment, before she'd moved a muscle, we knew it was over."

The catatonic, listless performance that ensued is a YouTube legend now, but straight after leaving the stage, Britney was in tears, demanding to be shown a video of the act. She then dashed into a closed hotel restaurant, all the while furiously texting on her phone. She slumped against a stone wall, and stayed there crying for 45 minutes. Britney fled Vegas that night.

As we now know, Britney was to have a further meltdown, leading to her hospitalisation and being put into the conservatorship of her controlling father Jamie. Since then Britney has undid a lot of the damage with her Circus world tour (which hit the O2 Arena here in Dublin last month).

Be that as it may, as fans and critics alike acknowledge, Britney may have regained her moves since that disastrous VMA show two years ago, but it still remains to be seen whether she'll ever truly get her groove back.
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SCREAM UR LUNGS OUT

omgomgomgomgomgomg

In October 2007 Britney told paparazzi that there would be a tour in support of her new album which was Blackout. In January 2008 just after her hospitilization Britney's label stopped the tour. It turns out the dates were going to be announced in a week!!

North American

April 2008
11: San Diego Sports Arena San Diego, CA
12: Save Mart Center - Fresno, CA
14: Oracle Oakland Arena - Oakland, CA
15: Staples Center - Los Angeles, CA
16: HP Pavilion - San Jose, CA
19: Sacramento ARCO - Sacramento, CA
21: American Airlines Center - Dallas, TX
22: Toyota Center - Houston, TX
24: Alomodome - San Antonio, TX
26: Philips Arena - Atlanta, GA
27: American Airlines Arena - Miami, FL
29: St. Pete Times Forum - Tampa, FL
30: Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Coliseum - Jacksonville, FL

May 2008:

6: Jones Beach Ampitheatre - Wantagh, NY
7: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum - Uniondale, NY
9: Times Union Center - Albany, NY

11: Madison Square Garden - New York, NY
14: Air Canada Centre - Toronto, ON
15: Copps Coliseum - Hamilton, ON
17: Mohegan Sun Arena - Uncasville, CT
21: BOK Center Tulsa - Tulsa, OK
27: Mandalay Bay Events Center - Las Vegas, NV

OMGOMGOMGOMGOKGGIF0GJGIJIG!!

Imagine what the 'Blackout Tour' would have looked like! They were really close to announcing the whole thing when Jive and Zomba cancelled it before it was all finalized because of her mental health.

EDIT;; Sorry I missed out the Las Vegas date.

OMFG there would've been a tour?!
That would've been truly amazing.

Actually, I would have prefered no tour! Britney was in no shape to being touring for over a month at least and she probably would have cancelled a load of dates tbh. Just look at the M+M's Tour in May 2007.

And it was only an American tour!

AND ALSO: Notice how there is no Louisiana date!!! :shocked:

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Originally posted by MichaelSpears
AND ALSO: Notice how there is no Louisiana date!!! :shocked:

OOFG yeah! It wouldn't have come to the UK anyway so...

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Originally posted by Zac

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Originally posted by MichaelSpears
AND ALSO: Notice how there is no Louisiana date!!! :shocked:

OOFG yeah! It wouldn't have come to the UK anyway so...

ikr :-[

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oh right lol :).. what do you think about the blackout tour?