Britney’s Comeback Show: Well, At Least Her Wig Stayed On

(Aren’t you supposed to wait until after Memorial Day to bust out the white go-go boots?)

In yet another ploy to distract the American public from the news, Britney Spears lip-synced her way through a 16-minute set that included “Toxic” and “I’m A Slave 4 U” at San Diego’s House Of Blues last night. A few reactions from the people who didn’t have to hover outside, waiting for a post-show paparazzi shot:

“‘After everything she’s been through lately, I think we all had low expectations and she way exceeded them,’ Weston Louis Arlich, 24, said.” [MTV] “‘It wasn’t a good move for her career,’ Mackenzie Trimble said after the show. ‘When you come out and do four songs and lip-sync . . . that’s not what Britney fans came to see.’ ” [SignOnSanDiego] “But Adriane Odom wasn’t impressed. ‘It probably wouldn’t have been so bad if we would have known we’d have to wait two hours for her to come on,’ she said.” [USA Today] “And was it good? Well, so long as you happily describe the sight of a past-her-prime rehab-bound single mother of two in a wig miming to a bunch of her old records for about quarter of an hour as good, then – yes – we’ll admit that Britney Spears really knocked it out of the park.” [Hecklerspray]

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