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<h1><font size="5" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Pop goes the princess</font></h1>
<p class="subhead">Singer teases crowd with sexually-charged show</p>
<p class="byline">By Krisse Mansfield</p>
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<p align="justify">Britney Spears entertained a full house at the
Save Mart Center Friday, with an elaborate stage setup, backup
dancers and numerous costume changes. </p>
<p class="byline">-Photo by Ryan Smith</p>
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<p>Friday night’s sexually charged Britney Spears concert arrived
in Fresno on the third stop of her 43-city Onyx Hotel Tour.</p>
<p> Spears danced, moaned, sang and shook it for all she was worth and
the crowd of 12,000 that filled the Save Mart Center had mixed reviews. </p>
<p> The production about to be witnessed, an emcee said, would take the
audience to a place where fun-filled fantasies would keep them on their
toes and
where their bodies would be privy to much titillation. </p>
<p> Minutes later, Spears entered the stage on a 10 ft. cart pushed by
shirtless men for her latest hit “Toxic,” dressed in a black leather
outfit. The crowd roared with approval and rarely let up during the 90-minute
show. </p>
<p> After running through hits such as “Overprotected” and “Boys,” Spears
launched into cabaret versions of “Oops, I Did it Again” and “Baby
One More Time,” dressed in pink panties, a bustier and stockings. </p>
<p> Spears stayed true to her promises of a more adult-themed show when
she took the stage for “Touch of My Hand,” a song about masturbation. </p>
<p> Emerging in a white bathrobe, Spears stripped it off revealing a diamond-studded,
flesh-colored bodysuit before writhing in a transparent bathtub. Below
Spears, men and women laid in sexual positions on beds, some tied to
headboards. </p>
<p> Spears took the sexual theme to the next level for “Breathe on
Me,” a techno-inspired song about seduction. </p>
<p> While Spears grinded with a male dancer on a bed, sexually- charged
images played on the huge screens surrounding the stage. </p>
<p> “
I just about had a heart attack when I saw that,” said Shelina
Gustoff of Fresno. </p>
<p> Gustoff said Spears pushed the edge with the show, but never crossed
the lines of good taste. </p>
<p> Stephanie Ramirez, who brought her 9-year-old daughter to the concert,
disagreed. </p>
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I almost left the show because I didn’t want my daughter to see
that,” Ramirez said. “I knew that it was going to be out
there, but I didn’t know she was going to have a threesome going
on and practically get naked and masturbate in a bathtub.”</p>
<p> Brandon Garcia of Fresno wasn’t sure how he felt about Spears’ performance.</p>
<p> “I still can’t decide how I feel about the show,” Garcia said. “I’ve
seen her in concert twice before, and I just don’t know. But I do think
that she reconnected with her fans, just because this show wasn’t as overproduced
as the others.”</p>
<p> Other fans were more decisive with their opinions. </p>
<p> “
Oh my God, that was the best show I’ve ever seen,” said Martha Rodriguez
of Visalia. “I’m 22 years old, and I’m a hopeless Britney Spears
fan. And I don’t care what anyone has to say about it.”</p>
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