Poor Brit Brit

I'm trying to think of something witty, yet mean to say about Britney Spears' disaster of a comeback performance on the MTV Video Music Awards.

Between the awful lip-synching, her robot-stiff dancing, her botched cues and other missteps (like the part where she just stops singing, and music continued), I'll just have to let you watch the performance for yourself, and enter the punchline:

Britney's been the tabloid queen, but I think people really expected more. I know I joke about Brit Brit, but I kind of hoped she'd kick butt with her comeback performance.

In her defense, the wigtabulous poptart seems distracted - like her mind is on something else (Oh where Oh where did my dancing skills go, oh where, oh where could they be?), and not on what she's doing.

She should be locked in a room with the tape of her performance. This way, she can endure the horror that we all experienced watching her stumble through that routine. The song isn't bad, though.

Here's what the critics and others thought of her "performance." If it makes Brit Brit feel any better, this critic didn't care for the VMAs, either.

Another review of Britney's flubbed job at the VMAs, and we're not done yet. Here's another review panning Brit Brit. I updated this page on Thursday, and people were still talking about Brit Brit's bombing out.

I found this story, which claims to have Britney's reaction to her performance:

In Britney's defense, this columnist takes folks to task who had the nerve to say Brit Brit is fat. I have to agree. I think most would long to only be that chubby after two children.

And in Britney's defense:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_en_mu/bulging_britney_5;_ylt=AlPCeTGqF1DjPE1PxkxVG0MnHL8C

P.S. One of my co-workers thought I was too soft on Brit Brit in this post. I'll try to think of something meaner and get back to you.

Or, I'll just let Sarah Silverman do my dirty work:

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1568788&vid=174395

What did you think of the Britney Spears performance on the MTV Video Music Awards?