As fate would have it, there I was, sitting in row X with the vista of the O2 Arena before me, crowds in a consistent howl-applause mixture, lights flaring from every direction. At centre-stage, the Big Apple Circus had begun its routines. Men floated around in rolling hoops, women flew in the air and landed on strings, clowns on giant stilts stared at the crowd, pointing and laughing, and a ballerina balanced a giant metal cube on his nose.
The lights dimmed and from the ceiling bodies emerged, spinning at unbelievable speeds, hanging on to nothing but rope. “Ladies and Gentlemen,” solemnly spoke the MC, “this is a freak show. This…..is a freak show.”
The lights screamed once more and Britney Spears descended from heaven in a diamond orb.
The next 1.5 hours were nothing short of orgasmic as the legendary Miss Spears got her groove on oh so many times. And though you can certainly pinpoint a certain blandness in her expression- after a turbulent year and being virtually on lock-down by her father whilst on tour- she did not fail to make the zillion people in the audience gyrate with her. It was her against the music.
And it was, after all, a freak show, a circus. The return to good old penny-in-the-hat entertainment. But as we all stood gaping, laughing, dancing and screaming all at once, I couldn’t help but feel a little sympathy for Miss Spears. And I have a feeling I wasn’t alone. We all probably related to her a little bit that night. Parental lock-down. Relationship melt-down. Perseverance and kicking ass nonetheless.
When the MC had said that this was a freak show, I didn’t think one could limit that to what was on stage. The best performances integrate the audience, usually in crafty irony. A lot of us know we are freaks of nature. And for those who feel they are not I can only feel pity, life must be insufferably predictable.
So in dancing and screaming her name, we all celebrated a little bit of ourselves that night. The luckiest of us are freaks and performers. You want a piece of me?
i hate you!! more like jealous and envious towards you ya kalb!!! well i am glad you had fun there and about it being a freakshow TOTALLY true.... BRITNEY has made a great comeback in my opinon the shit she has been through will make her the next madonna... wait till another 20 years when she embraces kaballah or if some new newage religion comes out and becomes all calm and enlightened :)
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