Beutifulstranger
Sep 13th, 2007, 06:54 AM
source people.com
Some blame the outfit. Others point a finger at Sarah Silverman. Still others question MTV's judgment in the first place to open the show with Britney Spears. (http://www.people.com/)
But whatever the reason, the pop star's lackluster performance of her new single "Gimme More" is getting universally bashed the day after her supposed "comeback" in a sparkly black bikini and blonde weave on Sunday's VMA.
"Britney was supposed to wear a matching corset that she opted out of wearing at the last minute," a source tells PEOPLE. "She was just plain nervous because of all the hype and she's embarrassed."
"She was extremely nervous. It's been awhile since she's done this, and she was performing in front of all her peers, on live TV. She just got out there and froze," says a source who was also backstage as well as at rehearsal . "People who were at rehearsal saw something else. It was good. It really was."
In addition to the barbed comments (everyone from Whoopi Goldberg to The New York Times piled on), conspiracy theories abounded as to why Spears appeared out of it and uninspired.
Fan site BreatheHeavy.com (http://breatheheavy.com/) and photo agency X17 (http://x17online.com/celebrities/britney_spears/x17_xclusive_is_wasnt_the_stilettos_it_was_sarah_silverman_a t_fault_for_brits_performance.php)
speculated that Spears was thrown off after hearing Sarah Silverman rehearse her monologue (which ripped Spears and called her kids "mistakes").
But Silverman's rep tells PEOPLE it's untrue: "Sarah never rehearsed her full monologue ahead of time so no one knew what Sarah was going to say except for Sarah."
• All three New York newspapers tore into Spears's perceived comeback in their front-section news pages: "Britney Spears phoned it in for her 'comeback' performance ... It was a far cry from her energetic outings at VMAs past," the Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/09/10/2007-09-10_britney_spears_behaves_but_mtv_comeback_.html)
•"Totally lame, pathetically lip-synched," lamented the New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/seven/09102007/news/nationalnews/britney_a_bust.htm). As for "Gimme More," said the paper, "the song about lusting for too much wasn't enough to launch a dinghy, let alone re-launch the career of this ditzy disaster."
• The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/arts/music/10mtv.html?_r=1=slogin) chimed in, saying of Spears: "She didn't disappoint; she was awful. Visibly nervous, she tottered around the stage, dancing tentatively and doing nothing that sounded or looked like real live singing."
Some blame the outfit. Others point a finger at Sarah Silverman. Still others question MTV's judgment in the first place to open the show with Britney Spears. (http://www.people.com/)
But whatever the reason, the pop star's lackluster performance of her new single "Gimme More" is getting universally bashed the day after her supposed "comeback" in a sparkly black bikini and blonde weave on Sunday's VMA.
"Britney was supposed to wear a matching corset that she opted out of wearing at the last minute," a source tells PEOPLE. "She was just plain nervous because of all the hype and she's embarrassed."
"She was extremely nervous. It's been awhile since she's done this, and she was performing in front of all her peers, on live TV. She just got out there and froze," says a source who was also backstage as well as at rehearsal . "People who were at rehearsal saw something else. It was good. It really was."
In addition to the barbed comments (everyone from Whoopi Goldberg to The New York Times piled on), conspiracy theories abounded as to why Spears appeared out of it and uninspired.
Fan site BreatheHeavy.com (http://breatheheavy.com/) and photo agency X17 (http://x17online.com/celebrities/britney_spears/x17_xclusive_is_wasnt_the_stilettos_it_was_sarah_silverman_a t_fault_for_brits_performance.php)
speculated that Spears was thrown off after hearing Sarah Silverman rehearse her monologue (which ripped Spears and called her kids "mistakes").
But Silverman's rep tells PEOPLE it's untrue: "Sarah never rehearsed her full monologue ahead of time so no one knew what Sarah was going to say except for Sarah."
• All three New York newspapers tore into Spears's perceived comeback in their front-section news pages: "Britney Spears phoned it in for her 'comeback' performance ... It was a far cry from her energetic outings at VMAs past," the Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/09/10/2007-09-10_britney_spears_behaves_but_mtv_comeback_.html)
•"Totally lame, pathetically lip-synched," lamented the New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/seven/09102007/news/nationalnews/britney_a_bust.htm). As for "Gimme More," said the paper, "the song about lusting for too much wasn't enough to launch a dinghy, let alone re-launch the career of this ditzy disaster."
• The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/arts/music/10mtv.html?_r=1=slogin) chimed in, saying of Spears: "She didn't disappoint; she was awful. Visibly nervous, she tottered around the stage, dancing tentatively and doing nothing that sounded or looked like real live singing."