What are your thoughts on this Hold It Against Me rehearsal?

[dr35]

This was definitely the lowest for her, in my opinion. and it’s heartbreaking.
 

It’s not that the song is bad… in fact, ‘Femme Fatale’ is one of her best records. But this era just barely scratched the surface of what it could have been, and it’s no wonder, considering she was a prisoner throughout the whole thing. 
 

 

[Loosenupthosebuttons]

2 hours ago, dr35 said:

This was definitely the lowest for her, in my opinion. and it’s heartbreaking.
 

It’s not that the song is bad… in fact, ‘Femme Fatale’ is one of her best records. But this era just barely scratched the surface of what it could have been, and it’s no wonder, considering she was a prisoner throughout the whole thing. 
 

 

This is exactly how I feel. 🥺

[Aymama]

7 hours ago, BettyBoop said:

It breaks my heart tbh  but she pulled through it and did her absolute best 

This. Those meds they forced onto her.. I remember her eyes being half closed throughout a lot of the FF era, mostly the beginning  

[icybaby]

She is more relaxed on rehersals and it looks better. But in general it is the same dance moves, not much difference. 

[Cherry Bomb]

I’m amazed she’s able to pull this off. When I was on meds to help with my mental illness I couldn’t even get out of bed and was always in a daze. I can’t imagine how she’s able to involuntary memorize a full choreography, get on stage and perform decently. 

[Prince Ali]

Unfortunately all the HIAM promo performances lacks the energy.. which now is of course understandable..

But she slayed them in most of the FF tour dates and I love them

[The Greatest Show]

The choreography didn't fit her well and she was obviously drugged up and uninterested. All things considered it was OK.

[K-man]

Looking back at it and what she went through. in recently time I felt like maybe in her own way she was rebelling (no pun intended) against the team by giving these performances where it seemed like she was checked out or didn’t really care. She would kill it during rehearsal but then the performance was okay.
 

With hold it against me I’ve always felt that was an awkward song to dance to because of the dub step beat, plus I would hate she would just sit in the chair when the breakdown would come. 

[Bigno]

This is certainly hard to watch. I was trying to remeber if there was any promo for Britney Jean, and I can't remember. I kinda have that era erased from my mind. I imagine those promos would have been worse, cause I consider that era even worse, but my gawd, I can't recall!

[BratzBitch]

Honestly, knowing what we know now, it's incredible she's even trying to do it. If i was forced to perform against my will, you can bet your *** i wouldn't give a **** and barely move

[Exxxemi]

Atrocious. Her worst moment in life.

[Lmfc1993]

The FF era she was lost. I think she was heavy **** and maybe on depression. On the circus tour we saw glimpsed of the britney we all knew. But the FF era she wasn't there at all. She is super strong because she did all of this being drugged. I didn't know how she did it. 

[joanhs]

Sometimes I think it's the professional camera making the performances bad. They zoom to much, so we can't see the entire body

[MrLovett]

3 hours ago, Bigno said:

I was trying to remeber if there was any promo for Britney Jean, and I can't remember. 

Just the iconic desert performance 

[nottinghill99]

im so disgusted by the people in the rehersals screaming "woooohh" "yeah" at her like "yeah, great, make us some money" and not actually caring about this human being on stage, knowing what medications she was on

[Ofcoursenot]

She is so strong! Performing even tho she was very **** up! I like the leotard but I don't know what it doesn't look flattering on her

[rik]

16 hours ago, handmedown said:

Putting aside everything we now know she was going through, this is by far the worst choreography ever.  So unworthy of Britney Spears.  Perhaps forgivable if she were singing live as well but she’s not. And the outfits were so trashy, I’ll take that sweater she’s wearing here any day. 

But as you literally said, we know why. 

[rik]

6 hours ago, Exxxemi said:

Atrocious. Her worst moment in life.

During this time she literally had an IUD forced into her and was forced into therapy 7 days a week for 7 hours while being prescribed lithium on and off. 

 

[everybodygoesdown]

16 hours ago, princessmimi said:

For some reason she did better in the rehearsal than the actual performance

I think that happens a lot of time because there is less pressure and anxiety during the rehearsals than during the actual performance. She KNOWS people are very critical of her and pick apart everything she does and we know team-con didn't exactly  help her rebuild any confidence. 

[HairFlipQueen]

51 minutes ago, Rik said:

During this time she literally had an IUD forced into her and was forced into therapy 7 days a week for 7 hours while being prescribed lithium on and off. 

 

Is that correct? Genuinely asking because I’m unsure of the timelines of things, but I thought the lithium and the 7 day 7 hour therapy was when we was forced into that facility around 2018?

As I said, I’m not completely sure of the timeline so may be totally wrong.