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Spears also employed a storyline -- hers unfurled through filmic interludes rather than Minaj's voiceover narration -- but we found it a little bit hard to follow because of the volume of the fans cheering. As far as we could tell, it had something to do with a creepy broadcaster dude who liked to chomp on Blow Pops and stalk Spears. The scenes showed spears in the most Femme Fatale-esque guises from her videos for songs like "Toxic," "Womanizer," and the recent "Hold It Against Me." And the story had something to do with Spears running from cops and getting ready to kick someone's ass. At the end of this vignette, the creepy stalker dude eventually met his match when Spears found him in his broadcasting lair. We're still pretty confused about the Blow Pops. You can ask for no more of your pop idols than for them to soar above you in a hail of sparks, smoke, and/or confetti, so Spears did this multiple times, donning wings to "fly" into the air for "Piece of Me," one of several playful pokes at her paparazzi attention. She swung and briefly actually sang to the ballad "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know," and also went airborne to close out the show on current hit "Till the World Ends." The latter is a slice of pop perfection Spears hasn't achieved since "Toxic" (which was also performed here with her in a cute kimono with an anime version of herself printed on the sleeve). Britney has toned up substantially in the past few months, with a stomach any other mother of two would swear would be impossible. Her costumes largely fell in the skimpy leotard family, with a number of two-piece situations that few but Spears could pull off. Her female dancers seemed mostly modestly clad compared to the male ones, who spent a lot of time being topless and harnessed as they performed flips and astonishing aerial tricks. Spears concentrated heavily on her current album, Femme Fatale, but she didn't deny her fans her first hit " ... Baby One More Time," here rendered into a motorcycle mama's theme song, and followed it up with her faux-raunchy verse for the No. 1-on-the-charts remix for Rihanna's "S&M." And a giant (we mean giant) electric guitar thing was wheeled out for her to mount for a catchy version of Madonna's "Burning Up."
