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Main >> News Listing >> March 2004 >> Article ID 7101
 Valley clamors for aura that is Britney | Type: Newspaper Article |
| | Valley clamors for aura that is Britney | Mar 06, 2004 | by Mike Osegueda
Summary:
What would get a better response? Spears standing on stage and singing in a subdued outfit (like Christina Aguilera at the Grammys), or Spears on stage surrounded by her dancers, in designer clothes but never opening her mouth?
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What a tease that Britney Spears is.
From the moment the lights at Save Mart Center in Fresno went down Friday night, the sellout crowd was deafening.
Spears' face first appeared on a video screen in the middle of the metallic-decorated stage on the third night of her Onyx Hotel Tour.
Next, her dancers were falling from the ceiling, and the music started.
It wasn't until the pulsing beat of "Toxic" hit speakers that Spears graced shrieking fans with her presence. She was wheeled out on a 10-foot-tall cart, dressed in a skin-tight leather suit to begin a 17-song, nine-outfit performance.
It only took until the first chorus for her to start gyrating.
By the third song, "Boys," she was being wheeled around on luggage carts by shirtless bellboys.
It goes to show that Spears is as much spectacle as she is singer.
Spears, known for making as many headlines as melody lines, is different things to different people.
To some, she's a singer to idolize. To some, she's a walking fashion trend. To some, she's eye candy. To some, she's controversy wrapped up in a petite frame. No matter what the reason, more than 12,000 fans turned out to see her.
Some wrestled in lines the day tickets went on sale. The show sold out in 1 hour, 15 minutes. Some paid top dollar to ticket brokers for a chance to see the pop princess.
"She's incredible," said Ashley True, 21, after the 90-minute performance. "She's the most beautiful thing ever. She's even better live."
Spears' set included tracks off her latest album, "In the Zone," and a score of her older hits, such as "Oops, I Did it Again," "Crazy," and "I'm a Slave 4 U."
Midway through the performance, things got spicy in typical Spears fashion.
For "Touch of My Hand," she emerged wearing a glittering see-through bodysuit like the one in the "Toxic" video. A male and female dancer appeared in their underwear.
During the next song, "Breathe On Me," Spears cavorted with the male dancer.
"I had them look down during those two songs," said Cyndi Cante, motioning toward her two daughters, ages 9 and 11. "I knew what those two songs were about beforehand."
Sitting in the front row, just slightly to the right of the middle, Natalie Wood was as excited as Dorothy returning from The Land of Oz.
There's no place like the front row.
Natalie, 11, had a smile pasted to her face, and she spoke softly.
"They didn't really believe me," Wood said, referring to her friends, who were at home while she sat in the front row.
Her father Tom, 35, can prove it -- just look at his bank account.
He paid $750 per ticket from a ticket agency and traveled four hours from Corona to earn that smile on his daughter's face.
"She's giddy," he said.
In fact, the Onyx Hotel could be a neighbor to The Land of Oz. It was part-circus, part-ballet and all theatrics. The only thing hotter than Spears was the flames erupting from the edges of the stage.
There were as many as eight dancers on the stage going through a program that was rehearsed down to the dialogue.
Spears told the men in the crowd that if they were lucky, maybe they'd get to marry her, joking about her quick Las Vegas wedding. Then there was a monologue about how her life has been a roller coaster the past five months. Both were said almost word-for-word at the previous tour stops.
It didn't matter to most fans. They were just excited to see Spears, in what many were calling the biggest concert to come to Fresno.
There was the group of four guys sitting together who looked out of place among a sea of screaming teenage girls.
"We are teenage girls," snapped Jim Forston, 38, of Fresno. "Just because we look different doesn't mean we don't love Britney. Even though we're gay, we still think she's hot."
"If I was a girl," said Dany Najera, 29, sitting next to him, "I'd want to be her."
Soon a debate started.
What would get a better response? Spears standing on stage and singing in a subdued outfit (like Christina Aguilera at the Grammys), or Spears on stage surrounded by her dancers, in designer clothes but never opening her mouth?
"It's about the music," Forston said. "I don't care if she just stood there and sang."
"I'm all about the costumes," Najera said.
"Sure you are," Forston answered. "But you're not about the talent." |
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