To the young girls I know (middle schoolers, 12-13 or younger), Britney Spears is about as relevant as Marie Osmond or Olivia Newton-John, anyway. They are all into Hannah Montana, Hilary Duff, and others whose names I don't even know. I see one of Brit's problems (one out of many) as being that "her" audience is getting more mature and her act is not. Unlike, say, her former Mouseketeers comrade Christina Aguilera, who appears to be about ten times more intelligent than Spears and who is always trying to do something interesting and new with her music and her visual approach, whether you like it or not.

Did anyone else besides me note a certain arrogance to her during the performance? I got the impression she felt it was a huge honor we were getting to see her perform again, so all she really needed to do was phone it in.

Now reading the story about her showing up over 3 hrs late to rehearsal - do you know how many people sat around waiting? How can this be anything but pure arrogance?

Her performance reminded of the Simpsons episode where Bart is a burnt-out male stripper
with the cap guns. Ha Ha hilarious.

I think she's playing the game. She knows she can't get out, but since she had her self-awareness moment (shaving head, getting tat), she knows she has to play. She has "made the deal with the devil"; now she just has to ride it out.

Wasted talent. What a crying shame. I feel so sad for her. It wasnt that long time ago, her pictures were posted in our college dorms.

We listen to her music all the time - after exams, break from class and long hours in the library. We all sang with her and gigled our hearts out lip synced and danced widly to her music.

My roommate was pre-law and I was pre-med. Except for her music, we didnt have anything in common, except sharing her music. We became good friends because of her, and die hard fans of this super talented girl-woman.

She has became a tabloid target, and criticism admitedly are appropriate. Her talents and achievements are overshadowed.

Older and wiser now, a full pledge doctor, and my friend, a lawyer, but we still share her music.

We missed her terribly.

I retract my previous statement about her looking good. I finally saw video of it, she is , well, plump, drunk, and a horrible hair weave. She needs some real help. I hope she gets it.

It looks like Britney has probably been diagnosed with some form of mental illness and is on medication. That would explain her bizarre behavior of the past several months and her latest stage performance where so many people noted that 'she was there, but not really there.' MTV expolited her. They just asked her to open for them because they knew so many people would tune in to see that. I don't think anyone is looking out for her and unfortunately she can't look out for herself.

We need to just leave the girl alone.

OMG, folks! Get lives.

My husband and I were just discussing how when Britney & Christina first came out - we agreed Christina had more staying power talent.
Britney only has her young fans and their parents have had probably neough of her antics. We refused to buy our daughter Michael Jackson CD's as soon as there was hints of his pedophilia. And we explained why - to help her build her own ability to tell right from Hype.
Time to find another Bubble gum idol.

Nothing brings out that "american love" like celebs. How sad, it's become like barking dogs.

I seriously don't know what these non stories on Huffpo mean.

Many Americans must lead lives so boring, otherwise why would they be interested in pseudo celebrities crap ? I don't understand HuffPo's policies, on one side they want us to take the political stories seriously, on the other side these "entertainment stories" are worse than most of the real tabloid trash. Just curious.

If the press treated Bush the way they do Britney, he would have resigned in tears by now. To me this is the sad part about all this.

Somebody give her a rope! her & Paris & Lindsey & all the other fucking oxygen thiefs that our fucked up little society have allowed to create!

I cant believe they let this bitch have children! More total fuck ups in the making.

There, that should finish the slut.

INFOTAINMENT. Infotainment is by design used in America by the Corporate Media to sidetrack and distract the American Public from the more serious issues of our time. Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Nicole Ritchie and other Americans of INSIGNIFICANCE will hog the headlines so that most Americans will never think about the decline of freedom and prosperity in America, the growing inequality between the classes and the growing power of the state over the individual.

britney spears banked on her ability to be in outstanding physical shape and have kick-ass dance moves. has anyone here seen her previous performances on youtube? it seems not. but she has more stage presence and moves than paris, nicole, hilary, lindsey, jessica, and ashlee combined. perhaps that's not enough talent for the many overacheivers on this blog, but for the rest of america and the world, it was more than adequate, being that she was a huge star. she doesn't have a booming voice like christina or mariah, but she would not by anyone's standards be called a horrible singer. madonna certainly is no celine dion, but she's made an entire career based on the same thing: dance and pop music. it's really not brain surgery. she was a young, naive girl who got pushed (and pushed herself) into the spotlight, churned out a bunch of catchy pop songs and guess what? she crashed and burned big time! no real surprise there. and the whole thing is just sad. i felt uncomfortable and awkward FOR her as she yawned her way around that stage, especially having seen her previous performances--it's almost like they are completely different people. i don't care to ridicule, i just feel sorry for her. perhaps this was a wake up call to get herself together? but for many of you to call her "talentless" (among other things) is pretty arrogant. especially in the age where tartlets like paris and nicole have made an entire career and are celebrated for being rich, spoiled, who do NOTHING, and have a combined IQ that falls just below that of your average petco-raised goldfish. come on now! she definitely did not belong on that stage on sunday night and obviously needs to get some real help with her life, but give the girl a break!