Monday November 9, 2009

BRITNEY Spears is “extremely upset” after it was claimed concertgoers walked out of her show in Perth, Australia, because they were disgruntled with her lip-syncing.

The Toxic hitmaker has been heavily criticized for miming at her concerts, with the New South Wales state government using Spears as an example to promote a new lip-sync warning system on tickets and promotions of concerts.

Australian media reported that fans walked out of the first of Spears’ 14 Australian performances on Friday after just a few songs, describing it as “boring,” “stiff,” mimed and lacking interaction with the audience.

“Britney is aware of all this and she’s extremely upset by it,” Paul Dainty, Spears’ tour promoter, told The Australian newspaper on Monday.

“She’s a human being. I’m embarrassed, with such a big international entourage here with Britney, to be part of the Australian media when I see that kind of totally inaccurate reporting.”

Dainty said it was well known that part of Spears’ concert was lip-synced and blasted any inference that this was hidden.

“It’s been all over the internet for nine months,” Dainty said. ‘The inference is that we tried to hide this. It’s been the opposite.”

“This show is about an incredible spectacle, which it is,” he said.

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