Britney Spears: Live in Concert
By Brooke Geery
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As you may have gathered from the Britney Spears cursor on this very
site, I have a little unhealthy obsession with Britney. I think this stems from the fact
that I missed out on the New Kids, and when I was the right age for teenybopper music I
was mourning the death of Kurt Cobain. Either way, I’m making up for it now, I own
her albums, a t-shirt, all the stickers in both series and I’ll be the first to
preach her genius to you.
For this reason, I was quick to buy tickets for her Los Angeles show,
and devastated when I had to miss it to go on a snowboard trip. I suppose a week on North
America’s best glaciers was a little better, but still, I missed Britney. However, I
never gave up, and a little over a month later, I found myself within two hours of another
stop on her tour. Needless to say I was in the car as soon as I found out, practically
running over parking attendants to get a good spot and my tickets for her show at SPAC in
Saratoga, NY.
I spent the beginning of the show, the part that featured five wanabee Britney’s and BSB’s, on the phone calling everyone I knew. Although I know everyone was jealous, very few people shared by enthusiasm, but I didn’t care, because in less than an hour Britney would take the stage. As soon as the opening notes of Crazy began to emanate from the front I found myself plowing over 11 year olds to get a good view of her outfit changing antics. The show was everything I’d hoped for and more, and you know you’re jealous.
To make you feel a little bit closer to my experience, here are a few statistics I gathered:
| Combined age of everyone in the 10,000-person crowd: | 11,000 |
| Amount of money I spent on Britney Tickets this summer | $182 |
| Number of tickets purchased: | 5 |
| Amount of time spent on hold with Ticketmaster: | 2.3 hours |
| Number of outfits worn by Britney: | 11 |
| Number of times she changed on stage: | 3 |
| Number of times I wanted to punch the kid next to me: | 10 |
| Number of attempts it took to record “Baby One More Time” onto my voicemail: | 7 |
| Number of Oops I Did it Again T-shirts purchased: | 2 |
| Number of great songs that Britney preformed: | ALL OF THEM! |
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