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Friday, April 10, 2009

Show Review / Last Night Britney Spears @ Tacoma Dome

Posted by Dean Fawkes on Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:22 PM

Britney Spears - Circus

A massive, ridiculous, over-the-big-top spectacle of batshit mega-pop.

Pure nightmare fuel.

Were there fake thunderstorms? Yes! Artificial rainbows? No!

But not that many people commit to an idea this much. You know, dig up a concept, like a circus, look at it, sniff, shrug, and go off with it as far as it'll go.

Einstürzende Neubauten couldn't pull off half this horrorshow. Amazing. And stylish. And preposterous. And disturbing. And a stadium of smiles.

Britney Spears - Circus Tour

I don't know, Sufjan Stevens?

That album about a State? Hmm.

Britney Spears does mad circus freaks, bollywood hip-hop dances, gold cages with stripper poles, people pumping unicycles into the air, a floating 360 degree wrap-around Big Brother video-screen, old-time magic tricks, random nun-chuck battles, midgets with guitars, "Toxic," stage-circles of fire, near-naked women hanging off of ropes, non-stop bondage, "...Baby One More Time," quotes from '2001: A Space Odyssey,' trapezes made out of men, more outfits than millionaires, and, at the end, for "Womanizer," spinning surveillance cameras, police uniforms, and a waterfall of sparks.

Suck it!

Britney Spears - Circus Tour

Photos by Kay, B & Christopher Nelson, more images after the jump.

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It was so amazing! Britney was so hot. I agree, definitely a scary freak show performance, really funny juxtaposed to escstatic happy fans.

Posted by Triple X on April 10, 2009 at 1:55 PM

if you went to see BS you lack taste that is for sure

Posted by really??? on April 10, 2009 at 2:28 PM

sufjan > all..

Posted by cs on April 11, 2009 at 7:32 AM

To Britney haters, I think your misogyny is showing, end of story. I was there and it was an amazing show. 20,000 people going crazy impresses me more than 20 haters posting in the local backwaters of the 'ol internet.

Posted by CityPerson on April 12, 2009 at 4:31 PM

As I know, so Britney within one ear (2years before was “the begining”) was “posessed” by one Lithuanian magican. After this she have got very complicated psichology…
This story was very precisiosly and convincingly described in his website:
tolis.webs.com

Posted by Remoteness on December 12, 2009 at 3:49 AM