Britney On Lockdown In Australia

I don't doubt that people walked out of the Britney Spears concert in Perth Australia over the weekend. I also don't doubt there may have been a hundred or more who left as early as the third song. I do doubt though they actually paid for their tickets and not the news organizations reporting the story.

If you are such a big fan of Britney Spears that you are willing to spend half your week's pay to go see her, don't you think you would know that you are going to see her lip syncing? Did you really think she was going to get up there and sing for two hours? As John Mayer said in one of his Twitter posts this weekend, "If you're shocked that Britney was lip-syncing at her concert and want your money back, life may continue to be hard for you."

I think life will be impossible for you. Would I pay $200 to see Britney dance around on stage? No, but I know plenty of people who would and who don't care if she sings or not. I think news organizations wanted a story and were willing to manufacture things a bit and also were really pissed that Britney's people imposed so many restrictions on photographers that the news organizations simply decided to not send still photographers to any of her shows and then they "found" people like Amanda Hawlet. "I want my money back or I want her to sing properly. The ticket cost me $200 and she lip-synched the whole thing. It's cost me half a week's wage and you've got bills to pay, but you look forward to this concert, it's a night out - and what do you get? Nothing! It was a waste of $200 - I could have got four pairs of shoes for that."

So, if you spent that much and it is your night out, then why would you leave the show early? Wouldn't you suck it up and hope it got better? If you click the link you can find video of her show in Perth as well as a host of other articles about the controversy and how Britney is holed up in her hotel room and won't leave.