There were chubby bared midriffs all around. It's just that they were 6 to 20 years younger at Britney. I tried to think of anyone I'd seen with such an elaborate stage production. The Britney machine starts running about 5 minutes before the star comes out. The video monitors show a computerized Britney face which introduces the evening.
Smoke pours out of the stage and various lighting and stage movements take place.
Her dancers assemble as a giant metal sphere rises from behind the stage and floats to the front of the stage. More smoke and the sphere starts to rise again revealing Kentwood, Louisiana's own Ms. Spears. As costume after costume went on and came off and song after song switched gears into some dance interlude, I was aware that this show had nothing in common with rock 'n' roll. In fact, the only similarity I could draw was that there were actually a few breaks between songs where there was no music. I hadn't expected this.