CANBERRA – BRITNEY Spears has done it again, hitting the headlines during her first Australian tour over a row about lip-synching and a lacklustre performance that her tour promoter said had left her ‘extremely upset’.

BRITNEY HIDING AFTER CONCERT SHAME
PERTH (Australia) – CELEBRITY singer Britney Spears was hiding in a Perth hotel on Sunday after complaints arose over her lip-synching concerts, reported The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

According to a report, concert-goers walked out in large numbers after only three songs at at Perth’s Burswood Dome on Friday, upset by her lacklustre performance. Many also claimed her show was not worth the AU$200 (S$257) they had paid.
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Australian media reported that fans walked out of the first of Spears’ 14 Australian performances that was staged in Perth on Friday after just a few songs, describing it as ‘boring”, ’stiff”, mimed and lacking interaction with the audience.

But the promoter of Spears’ Australian ‘Circus’ tour, her manager and some fans rushed to her defence, saying this savaging has left the US pop singer traumatised.

‘Britney is aware of all this and she’s extremely upset by it,’ Paul Dainty, Spears’ tour promoter, told The Australian newspaper on Monday. ‘She’s a human being. I’m embarrassed, with such a big international entourage here with Britney, to be part of the Australian media when I see that kind of totally inaccurate reporting.’

Dainty said it was a total fabrication to suggest that fans had stormed out of the show as early as the third song after paying between A$200 (S$257) to A$1,500 to see the 27-year-old singer who has rebuilt her career after a high-profile meltdown.

Before her world tour started in March to promote her sixth studio album, Spears had only done a handful of live concerts in recent years as her personal life ran out of control. This included stints in psychiatric care, an ugly divorce, losing custody of her two sons, shaving her head and partying without panties. — REUTERS

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