Her recent performances have garnered disappointing reviews with critics branding her dancing lacklustre and wooden.
And now Britney Spears, 29, is being critiqued once more in a new video sweeping the internet that compares her current performances with famous dance routines from her early career.
Old school: Britney Spears most notable performances, one of which was the MTV Awards in 2004, have been compared to her current form in a new video sweeping the internet
Old Britney vs New Britney: The Dance Off video, created by fans at PopDust.com, revisits some of her most memorable professional moments that took place prior to hertragic emotional breakdown in 2007.
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Her performance of I’m A Slave For U at MTV Awards in 2001 shows her confidently marching on stage carrying a green boa constrictor and she is seen delivering a world class dance routine with spark and vigour in the 2003 video for Me Against The Music.
Another flashback shows her taking centre stage for a high energy Michael Jackson-esque routine to Baby One More Time in 1999.
In a startling contrast, the clip compares elements of those performances with her latest videos and live concerts.
Now: Britney appears more wooden than she used to and her figure has definitely changed as she took to the stage in San Francisco last month
Her routines for Hold It Against Me and Till The World Ends show her as a now tentative dancer, whose once razor sharp moves have been replaced by wobbly steps, flailing arms and confusion.
When she took to the stage in Las Vegas last month, it was clear to fans that, sadly, the confidence and sparkle that made her famous now allude her.
Critics have noted at Spears now appears to ’sleepwalk through a video’ and while she can still top the charts, she didn’t claim any co-writing credits on her heavily-synthesised new album, Femme Fatal.
Entertainment Weekly’s music writer Adam Markovitz describes her new material as an ’autopilot affair’.
Of course, there are several explanations for the diminishing impact of her dance routines.
Tanned and toned: The singer used to have an enviable figure which she showed off performing Hit Me Baby One More Time in 1999
Still got it? The singer, whose album Femme Fatale is currently at number one, appears in the video for Till The World Ends
The mother-of-two suffered a knee injury back in 2004 that required surgery.
She also endured emotional turmoil during a very public meltdown four years ago following her divorce to Kevin Federline and bitter custody battles.
This lead to a conservatorship which gave complete control of her life to her father Jamie and a lawyer.
Since then, she is understood to be on medication for an undisclosed psychological disease, believed to be bipolar disorder.
Despite her struggles on stage, the star has just signed up for a summer tour of the U.S. which will be supported by Nicki Minaj.
Her single Till The World Ends is sitting at number 13 on the Billboard chart and her new album currently in the number one spot in the U.S. and number 16 in the UK.
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