Britney Spears: Feels 'upset' over Australian tour complaints

Britney Spears: Feels 'upset' over Australian tour complaints

Pop diva Britney Spears has hit the headlines during her first Australian tour over a row about lip-synching and a boring performance that, according to tour promoter, had left her "extremely upset."

According to media fans walked out of the first of Spears' 14 Australian performances that was staged in Perth on Friday after just a few songs, by describing that it as "boring," "stiff," mimed and lacking interaction with the audience.

However the promoter of Britney Spears' Australian "Circus" tour, her manager and some fans rushed to her defense, by saying that this savaging has left the U.S. pop singer quite traumatized.

On Monday Paul Dainty, Spears' tour promoter, told a famous Australian newspaper, "Britney is aware of all this and she's extremely upset by it."

She continued, "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 that it was a total fabrication to suggest that fans had stormed out of the show as early as the third song after paying between 200 to 1,500 dollars to see the 27-year-old singer who has rebuilt her career after a high-profile meltdown.

Before her world tour started in the month of March for promoting her 6th studio album, Britney Spears had only done a handful of live concerts in recent years as her personal life ran out of control.

This included stints in psychiatric care, an horrible divorce, losing custody of her two sons, shaving her head and partying without panties.

Britney Spears has been at the center of debate over lip-synching since she arrived in Australia last week, even though it is no secret that she mimes as she dances in her circus-themed show.

The Fair Trade Minister for the state of New South Wales, Virginia Judge, ignited that the debate by saying that Australians would not tolerate a "Mickey Mouse" performance by Spears, who rose to fame as a member of Disney's "Mickey Mouse Club" TV series.

The judge gave suggestion that the concert tickets should carry disclaimers about whether parts of concerts were pre-recorded and mimed.

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

Dainty said, "It's been all over the Internet for nine months," "This show is about an incredible spectacle, which it is."

Spears' manager Adam Leber took to Spears' Twitter account to defend the singer to her 3.7 million followers.

The management from the Burswood Dome in Perth, where the show of Britney Spears was staged, told the local reporters that they had not received any complaints from the 17,000 people who were at the show. A related number attended Spears' show the next night too.

Several fans flooded personal website of Britney Spears and also Twitter to congratulate her on her comeback, by describing her Perth performances as "amazing," "awesome" and "brilliant."