Britney Spears seemed not to be ready for prime time · 2007-09-10 18:53
Britney Spears made her much-hyped comeback last night to open MTV’s disjointed and just plain boring Video Music Awards show, giving a thoroughly underwhelming performance of her new song “Gimme More.”
The 25-year-old singer was dressed up like a stripper in black sequinned bikini and knee-high boots. She moved tentatively around the stage, getting totally outgrooved by her backup dancers and badly lip-syncing her way through the song whose main lyric was “Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.”
To make matters worse for Spears, raunchy comedian Sarah Silverman took the stage next and proceeded to bury her.
The Spears appearance likely will goose the ratings for the VMAs. MTV President Christina Norman called this year’s version of the show a “total reinvention.” Ratings have been sinking steadily since 2001, when the show peaked with nearly 12 million viewers. Last year, the VMAs drew 5.8 million viewers, its smallest audience in 10 years, Washington Post informed.
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