She generally rates in the top ten most searched list. It's Britney Spears and I attended her sold-out concert last week with my wife and daughters at The Palace of Auburn Hills. I'm clearly not the target, but I was there and entitled to an opinion. This was one of the most un-fun nights of my life. Before the concert they ran commercials for Britney's "Circus Fantasy" fragrance. I've been to the Ringling Brothers circus. It smelled bad. Real bad. Who wants to smell like the circus? (Or "toxic" for that matter?)
I was appalled at how the 14 year olds going on 25 were dressed. Or not dressed. Sure it's slickly staged yet I was shocked how accepting the audience was of lip-synced singing. What happened to a live concert being live? As my wife said, "where's the band??" To cap off a "perfect" night the girl in the row behind me spilled her beer all over me. Just my luck to be seated in front of one of the ten girls of legal drinking age at the show. Baby I really wanted to "hit her one more time," but I controlled myself. And in front of me Britney got to change into dry clothes every ten seconds. Where's the justice?
This blog is a semi-regular, semi-humorous attempt to comment on consumer escapes. A great live concert can be the ultimate escape. Britney Spears' concert just made me want to get out. So I did. In Britney-speak I turned to my daughter and said, "I'm not a slave 2 this." So I escaped to our car and listened to the baseball game. All-in-all I'm "stronger" for the experience.
