I just watched the clip... it wasn't quite as horrible as everybody's been making it out to be.. though of course it wasn't fabulous. The other dancers really showed that she's not up to par at ALL. It's sad. She still has some variety of stage charisma.. she showed it in little tiny pieces.

But we need to see... well, more..

Gosh, I had SUCH high hopes for this performance!! I kind of felt like this performance could be her saving grace from all the bad media attention she's been getting, but unfortunately that will not be the case for Ms. Spears. I thought there was no way it could go wrong...I mean, it's a good song and she's made her name in being a performer...what happened?? The outfit? The lethargic moves?? The off-track lipsynching???

I'm hoping we can just chalk up that bad performance to nerves and give her another chance. No matter how disappointing it was, i'd rather see her turn it around than become a train wreck.

Why is everyone trying to be so kind; I 've seen high school talent shows with better performance than Britney. She was terrible at best. She seemed out of it like she was loaded...I mean she walked around like she was lost...those were not dance steps. Her outfit showed she has become allergic to the exercise room. When you can't even lip sunc you need to hang it up Britney and move back into your trailer.

I was very disappointed with her performance. Just from the first shot when you see a close up of her badly done extension to the outfit making her look like she had no waist. I think she knew she sucked because by the end when she mumbled "thank you" to the camera, you could see the shame in her face. Must have been hard to be her last night being that she had one of the VMA's most remembered performances.