PHILIP MYKEL FLORES
NEWS EDITOR
With her sexy sultry image, Britney Spears was the dominant force behind the successful return of teenage pop music in the ‘90s. Her debut album, “… Baby One More Time” and top notch choreography helped her top the music charts and become a bonafide pop star.
Despite achieving success in the music business, Spears found herself in the middle of media-related scrutiny. With classic photos of her leaving a gas-station bathroom barefoot, a 55-hour marriage to her childhood friend Jason Alexander, to nuptials with former dancer Kevin Federline, the birth of her two sons and famous shaving of the head incident, Spears had headlining tabloids worldwide. After spending four weeks in Promises, a rehabilitation center, Spears checked out “after successfully completing their program,” Larry Rudolph said in a statement released by Spears’s recording company, Jive Records.
Since then, Spears has reemerged in the spotlight with the release of her current album “Femme Fatale,” making her the only female artist to have six consecutive No. 1 albums. As Spears performed a brief three-song set for “Good Morning America,” one thing was noticeably missing … Spears’s dance moves. Spears, who was known as a technically skilled dancer and showcased fantastic dancing in her previous concerts, awkwardly hopped around from foot to foot, whipping her hair occasionally while giving pelvic thrusts back and forth.
So what happened to her dancing? Some say it’s those five-inch stilettos she wears, others say it’s because she had a knee injury in 2004. I’m not sure what the cause is for her lackluster dancing is, but I want to see some hard-core dancing. I want to see the old Spears’s back, slithering alongside her snake counterpart in the old “Slave 4 U” days.
She is currently planning on a 26-date tour this summer, teaming up with female rapper Nicki Minaj, that will feature a “post apocalyptic vibe” Rudolph said in a statement. Whichever vibe she chooses for this summer, all can hope that she brings back that top notch choreography she was known for, but don’t “Hold It Against Me” if she doesn’t.
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