Britney Spears launching her US tour in New Orleans last night in a suit looking like solid gold.
Perhaps Britney Spears was exploring different sides of her personality at her comeback show. Then again, she may have just been trying to find the right costume to flatter what is a rather fuller figure these days.
The 27-year-old singer’s fans didn’t seem to mind. More than 16,000 were there to welcome her back in New Orleans for her first tour for five years.
Los Angeles Times critic Ann Powers wrote: ‘Her singing was dominated by a backing track.
‘Her moves were nothing special – defined by much strutting and stripper-like shimmying, with the minimum amount of acrobatics to prove her mettle as a dance-pop queen.’
MTV’s James Montgomery said: ‘At times, Britney herself is almost dwarfed by the spectacle… She brought the circus to her hometown, and it was a huge, sold-out, screaming success.
Britney is hoping the tour will cement her comeback after a difficult few years, which saw her shave her head, have a messy custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline and was hospitalised twice for psychiatric evaluation.
Britney has been hard at work getting her body back after her out-of-shape appearance at the 2007 MTV Music Video Awards.
She has spent months in the dance studio practicing for the tour with the help of choreographers JaQuel Knight – who choreographed Beyonce Knowles’s Single Ladies – and Tony Testa.
The Circus tour runs for four months and covers the US, Canada and England, with plans to expand to the rest of Europe.
She will perform six gigs in London’s O2 arena from June 3 to 14.
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