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Nov 7, 2009 by  Paul Wallis - 23 votes, 3 comments
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Three songs, and they were walking out. Australian fans couldn’t stand the lip synch routines. That’s not entirely surprising, because Australian acts are all live. Lip synch is a traditional no-no. The $1500 tickets didn’t help, either.
While Ms. Spears has had her problems, you have to wonder if her management is playing with a full deck. If she wasn’t prepared to perform, she shouldn’t have been sent to Australia to get this sort of treatment.
For some reason, she was performing with her back to the stage in Perth for most of the concert. Giant screens were showing “circus” pictures, not Spears.
A Daily Telegraph article includes details of waivers and other interesting phenomena involved in a backstage meeting with someone who sounds like a publicist. Exactly what that meeting with the media was supposed to achieve is anyone’s guess, but in context with the walkout, it looks ridiculous.
Spears, as a matter of fact, isn’t all talk. She’s definitely a wild child of some kind. I bumped into her on Yahoo Answers, writing about swiping husbands on kitchen tables. She’s real enough, in that sense. Maybe more real than some of the wimpy little squeaky voiced rock stars.
Somehow, all the trials and miseries haven’t been enough of a message for whoever’s putting her in these career-wrecking situations.
If she’d come out here in the 70s, the response would have been a solid rain of beer bottles. If you’ve ever seen hundreds of full size beer bottles heading for a stage, you’d know what I mean.
Fortunately for the promoters and everyone else in the disaster area, all that happened was that the fans walked out. I suggest Ms. Spears walks out on whoever’s putting her in these situations, while she still has a career. I just can’t believe anyone could be so cruel as to expose her to this situation
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