Plz Spit Out the Chewing Gum, BB

Security was tighter in Anaheim, it took the crowd nearly two hours to get through the metal detectors, with guards seizing cell phones in an apparent reaction to the flood of pictures and videos of the San Diego show on the Internet.

At 9:30 p.m., after the vast majority of the crowd had made it past security, the chants of “Britney! Britney!” started, with one girl exhorting the crowd with shouts of, “She’s got to feel the love!”

A few minutes later, the lights dimmed on the stage, empty save for a single white chair. The crowd exploded into screams and applause as the four backup dancers appeared, two on each side, snaking their way across the stage. As the first strains of “… Baby One More Time” became recognizable, Spears emerged in a brown wig, white go-go boots, a white mini-skirt and a sparkling pink bikini top.

Like the San Diego show, the set was a short medley of Spears’s, with “I’m a Slave 4 U” following “Hit Me” and the crowd showering the pop star with shouts of approval each time she wiggled her hips. (Notably, she was also able to chew gum while performing.)

The lights dimmed after the second song, going a soft red, with the back-up dancers exiting the stage and leaving Britney alone to strut slowly to the lone chair as “Breathe On Me” started. The crowd roared as she seductively gyrated on the chair before her dancers returned and pulled a male fan from the audience to be serenaded by Spears.

A brief interlude allowed Spears to change into a tiny denim skirt, a plain pink bra and a short, white fur coat. Her “Do Something” routine included some air guitar, a lot of the hands-on-hips hip thrusts and a brief homage to the running man dance move.

Spears dropped her fur coat to the floor for the final song, “Toxic,” and smiled as she mouthed the words. The crowd once again roared its approval when she and her dancers dropped to all fours and crawled in formation down the stage. Spears then popped up to her knees and posed with her dancers around her as the song and the lights came to a simultaneous and abrupt end.

As the lights came back up and the crowd showered her with adoration, she blew kisses with both hands and said, “Thank you so much. These are my dancers,” before skipping offstage, leaving her four backups to soak up the applause.

Don’t call it a comeback: homegirl “performed” for 12 minutes, disrespected her audience by not even bothering spit her gum out before the show, and used regurgitated dance moves from previous tours. To me, this is essentially just stealing money out of the pockets of her fans.

It saddens me that this is the current state of pop music.

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