Britney Spears’ ‘Zone’: Brains, Clothing Optional

George Varga of the San Diego Union-Tribune reviewed the Britney Spears concert Tuesday night (March 2) at the San Diego Sports Arena. Varga writes, “By any name, the 90-minute “more adult”-themed show is a conceptual mishmash that was purportedly modeled after Tommy Tune’s Broadway musical ‘Grand Hotel’. Unfortunately, the grandeur Tune achieved has been replaced by contrived attempts at tawdry sensationalism that suggested what might happen if Penthouse magazine were edited by Beavis & Butt-head. It was also a carefully calculated vehicle for Spears to promote her commercially and artistically tepid fourth album, ‘In the Zone’, while trying to disguise her glaring musical limitations and distance herself from her first two albums and the pubescent audience that made her a pop-culture sensation.” Read more.