OMG! are you saying Britney lip-syc's? OMG!
On Nov 9, 1:59 pm, t bedford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Britney 'Extremely Upset' in Australia
>
> Australian music critics have greeted Britney Spears on her first
> concert tour down under with poor reviews and stories of fans walking
> out of her show. On top of that, government officials have been
> critical of the singer for her use of lip-syncing during performances.
> All the criticism has traumatized Spears.
>
> "Britney is aware of all this and she's extremely upset by it," Paul
> Dainty, Spears' tour promoter, told The Australian on Monday. "She's a
> human being. I'm embarrassed, with such a big international entourage
> here with Britney, to be part of the Australian media when I see that
> kind of totally inaccurate reporting."
>
> Critics called her first concert, held in Perth on Friday, "boring"
> and "stiff."
>
> In their reporting, Perth Now claimed "hundreds of fans stormed out"
> of the Friday concert. One fan, 22-year-old Amanda Hawlet put it
> bluntly: "I want my money back or I want her to sing properly. The
> ticket cost me $200 and she lip-synced the whole thing."
>
> Dainty disputes that fans who paid up to $1,500 dollars would walk out
> as early as the third song, as was reported. Spears' manager Adam
> Leber took to Spears' Twitter account to defend the singer to her 3.7
> million followers. "Its unfortunate that one journalist in Perth
> didn't enjoy the show last night. Fortunately the other 18,272 fans in
> attendance did. - Adam."
>
> Before this concert flap, Britney's trip to Australia was already
> dogged with controversy. Last week, officials there announced they
> were brainstorming options to ensure fans are fully informed that
> parts of the concerts will be lip-synced.
>
> "It is Britney's 'prerogative' to lip-sync, and it is my job to make
> sure consumers know what they are paying for up front," said Virginia
> Judge, Minister for Fair Trading for the Australian state New South
> Wales, in a statement released by the government.
>
> One consumer protection option being considered is the requirement of
> disclaimers on tickets and promotional material that will indicate
> that portions of the show will be pre-recorded.
>
> "Anyone paying to attend a Britney Spears concert, or any bubblegum
> pop show for that matter, should really know better than to go in
> expecting an earth-shattering vocal performance. You didn't, afterall,
> just pay to see Mariah Carey circa 1990," says AOL Music editor Kim
> Davis. "These days, you pay to see it all -- the costumes, the
> dancers, the stage props ... Britney's skin. Like it or not, the vocal
> performance is, in many cases, a fraction of the arena show these
> days."
>
> "Rather than slapping a disclaimer on all ticket sales, my advice
> would be for consumers to hop on the Web, where anything you want to
> know is at your fingertips. Watch tour footage, read reviews, flip
> through photos. Go vicarious before you actually, well, go."
>
> t says: And you're NOT paying for live vocals...you're paying for
> "Britney's skin". Does that mean the flesh she is showing....or the
> quality of her actual skin.....which I imagine is pretty difficult to
> see from the audience....
>
> And Britney's "upset" because the paper's are saying she lip-sync's?!?
> WTF!?!
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