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I don't know if people realize pre-recorded vocals and lip sync are mostly the same thing, except lip sync is ironically more "honest", in the sense you can't be mistaken what parts of the song the singer sang or not and you can't hide behind the "she sings and dances at the same time" charade... There's no ambiguity, in that case, and to be fair, this is no "minimal" dancing". If you're a singer, you know you can't pull off what she did "live", it would have been a massacre and completely take away from the visual aspect.
Britney's got some good will and tons of nostalgia on her side but I can't help but notice, after all these years being a member, how much praise some average/mediocre "pre-recorded" by other singers did get, in here, and when Britney performs miles ahead (from "Womanizer" to the very end), with out of this world improvement, compared to her post-2007 stamina, she gets all these "criticisms" thrown at her (maybe because she's too upfront about the reality of "upbeat" pop performing?).
Anyone is entitled to his opinion, however what I mostly read in this thread are adjectives ("robotic","stiff","bad dancer","awkward") that were already exaggerated when she didn't have her groove back (2007-2014) but are now perfectly off-topic. Still, it's refreshing to see the neutral and supportive crew telling it like it is and not fall in the same traps, the "bad mental filter"* crowd always fall into. Same for worldwide outlets who were already noticing progress in her performances last year, and are now charmed again, it seems. Yeah, of course those who would stoop at any lows for a "kii" or a hit post are saying they praised her out of pity, but where was this empathy where they were reviewing her 2007 and 2011 "exploits"?!
*They hate her guts, thinks she's useless, disgusting, dumb and untalented, yet are always feigning a benevolant objectivity before tearing her apart in the second part of their post. They're even more dedicated than her lifelong stans and have been at it since the beginning. Thanks to them, she's always a topic in pop music even when she flops.
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