Re: Britney to open MTV Video Music Awards

edonline wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_en_mu/people_britney_spears
>
> Spears to open MTV Video Music Awards
> By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer
>
> NEW YORK (AP) — It's Britney, baby, one more time. Despite her
> train-wreck performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last year, the
> network confirms Spears will kick off the show once again.
>
> But it won't be a performance. Instead, MTV Networks Music Group
> President Van Toffler said Wednesday, it'll be something "fun and
> unexpected" on Sunday night's show.
>
> Unexpected is probably the kindest way to describe Spears' performance
> at last year's VMAs. In what was heavily promoted as the troubled
> singer's comeback, she instead gave an unfocused, almost unwatchable
> performance of "Gimme More," one of the many lowpoints in her year of
> debacles.
>
> So what made Spears and MTV reunite one more time?
>
> "MTV has long played an important role in my career. How can I not be
> there to kick off their 25th VMAs? I'm excited to open the entire
> show, to say hi to my fans and to be nominated," Spears said in a
> statement.
>
> "I think for Britney, people are rooting for her, and she's really on
> the road to recovery," Toffler said, noting that MTV had nominated her
> for three VMAs, including video of the year, for her clip "Piece of
> Me."
>
> "It feels like it's her year," he added. "It's our 25th anniversary
of
> the VMAs, and she's been such a critical piece of MTV's history."
>
> Spears also equals ratings gold: Last year's VMAs were up 23 percent
> over the 2006 show.
>
> In recent months, Spears, who's working on a new album, has appeared
> to have cleaned up her act. Her father James has been in control of
> her personal and professional matters as her legal conservator, and
> she drew high ratings and positive reviews when she made guest
> appearances on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" earlier this year.
>
> So far, the confirmed performers for Sunday's show include the Jonas
> Brothers, Lil Wayne, Rihanna, T.I. and Kid Rock.
>
> Toffler also raised the possibility of another troubled pop icon
> appearing: Michael Jackson.
>
> "We've been talking to him as well, I don't know if that's going to
> happen," he said. "People fall in and fall out up until the day of the
> show."


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