Last week I attended the Britney Spears concert. I like a lot of her songs, but I was not willing to pay full price for the ticket. I was able to get a ticket for half price through groupon. I didn't really have high expectatios, but I ended up having a lot of fun. Britney and her people put on quite a spectacle. My particular favorites were high energy performances of "If you seek Amy", "I wanna go", "until the world ends" and an extremely short version of "baby one more time". As for Britney herself I can tell you that she did do some singing despite reports that she lip syncs her whole show. I'm not so concerned about that in songs where the dance energy is high. Madonna, Cher, and Janet Jackson have all done some lip syncing during high energy numbers. It just seems that Britney gets the most criticism for it. However, I will say that britney's energy level was kind of lagging throughout the show. She certainly wasn't at her dancing best and the dancers around her were depended on to make up for a lot of her slack. Overall I would say that my 50 dollar seats 20 rows away from the stage were worth it, but I was glad I wasn't someone who paid full price for tickets.
Now who I would pay full price to see is Nicki Minaj headlining her own tour. She opened for Britney, and my expectations were lw after seeing her perform on Saturday Night Live. But in her 30 minute segment she exceeded my expectations. Her energy level was high and she performed as if her life depended on it. One song would flow into the next. I Wondered how they would handle all of her collaboration songs. They skillfully shortened the songs to make her rapping segments the highlight. On that night, Nicki Minaj provded to me that she was the A superstar. She stole the show that night from Britney. I'd give Nicki an A to Britney's B.
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