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This website has been set up for all attendees wanting a refund from Britney Spears and/or AEG Live and/or Ticket Master and/or various ticket brokers for money spent on attending her show in Vancouver, Canada on Wednesday April 8, 2009.
Britney Spears, AN ALLEGED SMOKER, stopped her show for close to 40 minutes on Wednesday night, leaving all of her fans stunned. After an initial 20 minutes of silence (with no updates at all), some concert goers left the arena believing the concert had been canceled.
The concert came to a halt, lights off, for over 20 minutes - when a woman announced that the show would not continue if people kept smoking (marijuana and cigarettes). The announcer stated that it was unsafe for Britney and the performers to continue with the concert. Nearly 30 minutes later, Spears finally took to the stage again without a word to the audience.
At this point, alleged lip-synching or not - the momentum was ruined for the audience.
Many people attending her concert have incurred significant costs in relation to attending Britney's show. Some paid a lot of money for inflated ticket prices through the ticket broker, transportation costs to the show, hotel costs, etc. In exchange for our commitment in supporting Britney's comeback, supporters did not receive due value for money they spent.
WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK FOR WHAT WE SPENT ON ATTENDING THE SHOW!
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THE VENUE WAS TO SMOKY?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!
Smoking at certain concerts happens all the time. Yes, it is wrong but it is most often par for the course - depending on the type of concert it is.
At the Britney Spears' concert on Wednesday evening, there MAY have been the occasional cigarette (and illegal cigarette) lit (although we didn't see any), but was this smoke the cause for halting the show for 40 minutes? DEFINITELY NOT.
THINK ABOUT WHAT VANCOUVER FANS ARE BEING ACCUSED OF HERE. Smoking so much weed and cigarettes that a show had to be stopped!!!!
This wasn't a Rolling Stones Concert or some other rock concert where attendees smoke. It was a crowd of tweens, teens, their chaperones, 20 something girls who loved Britney in their teens or cute gay guys dancing up a storm. The kind of people who would be offended if someone lit up beside them.
The smoke that existed in the venue came from the smoke and fog machines created by Britney's team. Many would agree that ventilation was not an issue or cause in stopping the show. GM Place is a relatively new stadium with all of the latest bells and whistles. We aren't talking about an aging auditorium with 30 year old exhaust fans.
When the announcer FINALLY spoke to the audience (after a 20 minute pause), you felt like a teenager being reprimanded by the principal instead of an adult who just forked out AT LEAST $140 (MINIMUM) for a single ticket, let alone the cost, for some, who flew in from other cities to see her perform.
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WAS IT A GOOD SHOW??
Aside from the show being stopped for an extended period of time, the big questions are, "Was the show any good?". "Was Britney's singing (and performance as a professional) giving her audience full value for money spent?"
Was smoke really the issue or was there more to this? One reporter mentions that a Virgin Mobile employee doesn't believe that smoke was the issue, but rather a staging malfunction:
"But from what I saw, it looked like technical difficulties, and they didn't want to say, after 25 minutes, that there were problems with the stage," he said. "Instead of saying there were technical difficulties with the stage, they said there was smoke near Mrs. Spears, which I don't believe. We had some people working with us that were right in at the front, as close as you can get to the stage, and they said that during the show there was no smoke." read more here.. http://www.straight.com/article-213909/problems-britney-spears%3F%3F-vancouver-show-may-have-been-caused-more-smoke?
All in all the consensus is that the show was really, really bad. The halting of the show ruined the momentum, she didn't sing, she never interacted with the crowd, everything was prerecorded, and she looked like she didn't even want to be there.
A reporter from the Georgia Straight Newspaper sums it up pretty good, and his opinion parallels that of the people who have been contacting this site:
"Spears did very little that could even charitably be described as dancing. When some conveyance or another wasn't relieving her of the need to move under her own steam, she mostly just strutted about the stage, almost invariably clad in something that barely covered her ample ass cheeks. And a lot of the time she wasn't there at all. During the seemingly endless costume changes, we were treated to such transparent time-fillers as martial-arts demonstrations, dance solos, and most surreal of all a video of Spears mouthing the words to Marilyn Manson's version of Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).
You could tell she was lip-synching in that case because her mouth was moving while someone else's voice was coming out of the speakers. Mind you, even when her own voice filled the stadium, that was no clear indication that Britney was actually generating the sound. I became convinced that her headset microphone was merely a prop, a speculation that was all but confirmed when she spoke for the first time all night into a handheld mike, which she also used when an oversized parasol lifted her into the air during the ballad 'Everytime'." read the full article here.. http://www.straight.com/article-213828/britney-spear-brings-lipsynched-circus-vancouver
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