# Britney's current concert tour -- are they SERIOUS?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475 "2002-07-05T11:09:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/1 "2002-07-05T11:09:15Z")
It’s called the “Dream Within A Dream” tour. Everyone I’ve mentioned this to, my daughter, my wife, my sister…they all laugh and then we say it together. Say it with me now… “Dweeeem wivvin a Dweeeem…” “Bwitneeeeey Speeeeaahs…Dweeeeem wivvin a Dweeeem Toooah…” Someone on her promotion team wasn’t a Princess Bride fan… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/2 "2002-07-05T15:40:40Z")
😃 “And wuave, twuuuu wuave…” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/3 "2002-07-06T15:05:52Z")
Does that mean that Britney is ready for mawwige? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/4 "2002-07-06T15:45:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > \*\* > Someone on her promotion team wasn’t a Princess Bride fan… :rolleyes: \*\* Or maybe they _were_… ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/5 "2002-07-06T15:55:42Z")
Finding out that Britney Spears’ tour has a dumb name is kind of like finding out that Charles Manson cheats at Scrabble – could your opinion really sink any lower? Isn’t it already at rock bottom? ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/6 "2002-07-06T16:04:03Z")
It’s a bwessed awangement, duh. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/7 "2002-07-06T16:14:41Z")
[slight hijack] I just saw a few minutes of a B. S. concert on HBO. Is it all lip-synced? I find it hard to believe she can bounce around on stage like an aerobic instructure and sing a song perfectly in tune and with no heavy breathing. During a break between songs, she was speaking to the audience, and you could hear her breathing into the microphone (which isn’t surprising given her stage “workout”). She then leaped into a song and the heavy breathing stopped. [/slight hijack] ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/8 "2002-07-06T16:40:45Z")
Britney Spears is Babwa Walters?!?! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/9 "2002-07-06T17:44:16Z")
Yes, she does indeed lip sync, from what I hear. She’s not that great a singer, at least live, from what I understand. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/10 "2002-07-06T17:58:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \* > \*\*Britney Spears is Babwa Walters?!?! > > :eek: \*\* Either that, or she enjoys hunting wabbits. Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/11 "2002-07-06T18:41:07Z")
“Bwitney’s consuht is what bwings us togevvaaaaah…” ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/12 "2002-07-06T18:51:33Z")
Wouldn’t it be easier to just, you know, _hire_ some people to do the dancing/aerobics/eye candy part so she can focus on what she’s ostensibly getting paid for? (Doens’t Culture Beat do this all the time?) Seriously, why don’t more singers 1) realize they can’t dance; that’s _why_ they’re singers, and 2) find someone who can? This isn’t laser surgery, people! (Can’t believe I actually used “laser surgery” as a metaphor. Must be too much girl-pop music. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/13 "2002-07-06T19:00:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DKW \* > \*\*Wouldn’t it be easier to just, you know, _hire_ some people to do the dancing/aerobics/eye candy part so she can focus on what she’s ostensibly getting paid for? > \*\* Ha! Have you actually heard her sing? Even with the digital enchancement, she’s pretty bad. Britney may technically be a singer, but I am quite certain that her income is strictly as a result of the “dancing/aerobics/eye candy” portion of her act. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/14 "2002-07-06T19:25:28Z")
And heavy on the “eye candy”, at that. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britneys-current-concert-tour-are-they-serious/117475/15 "2002-07-07T02:11:39Z")
Now, now, people. It’s obvious that it’s a deep and meaningful reference to Edgar Allen Poe’s poetic lament: > [@](#): > > **A Dream Within A Dream** > > Take this kiss upon the brow! > And, in parting from you now, > Thus much let me avow - > You are not wrong, who deem > That my days have been a dream; > Yet if Hope has flown away > In a night, or in a day, > In a vision, or in none > Is it therefore the less gone? > All that we see or seem > Is but a dream within a dream. > > I stand amid the roar > Of the surf-tormented shore, > And I hold within my hand > Grains of the golden sand - > How few! yet how they creep > Through my fingers to the deep, > While I weep - while I weep! > O God! can I not grasp > Them with a tighter clasp? > O God! can I not save > One from the pitiless wave? > Is all that we see or seem > But a dream within a dream? In a display of insight and self-awareness remarkable in one so young, Ms. Spears has come to realize the fleeting nature of fame and celebrity. In essence, this tour is a rage against the dying of the light. Ironically, a show with such deep insight will most likely ensure her popular and critical acclaim for many years to come. Or not.