Britney Spears Sheds Tears Over Comeback

Viewers weren't the only ones that were disappointed by Britney Spears' big comeback performance at last night's MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas.

Following a dismal performance of Spears' new single, "Gimme More," a source tells Us that Spears was spotted "crying badly [backstage]. She's devastated. She was really nervous and knows she screwed up."

The singer may have had an inkling of what was to come prior to her performance: A VMA insider tells Us that Spears fired her hairstylist right before going on.

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BOO HOO. She fired her stylist. I guess her stylist also forces her to wear shirts without pants!

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Bwahahahaha. Right, cuz it was her hair that screwed up the whole performance?!

So out of touch....

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Im sorry but her hair was the least of her problems. She should just retire to some far away island and call it a day. She is a laughing stock, and she did it to herself.

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Posted by Mssissy

BOO HOO. She fired her stylist. I guess her stylist also forces her to wear shirts without pants!

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Actually, it looked like the wig or weave or whatever she had on was making her nervous, b/c she was barely moving her head in her head rolls and stuff and she was pushing it out of her face....maybe she should have skipped the bar crawl the night before and really worked on the routine. You give people second chances and that's what happens?! I mean, she killed it years ago at the VMAs...she was SO hot and amazing with many of her shows. It's sad she blew it....really, people are forgiving. Had she rocked it, I think everyone would have been very happy for her.

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I'm going to go ahead and take a wild guess that she wasn't crying over her performance and that she was really crying about the awful things Sarah Silverman was saying about her and her children.

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I don't know why she just didn't sport a short do and call it a day. Extenstions are a major PIA!

She clearly wasn't ready for prime time with this performance.

She should talk to Faith Hill about how she manages to have kids and a career. She's going about it all wrong and has no direction. She fires everyone!

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Britney Spears After VMAs: 'She's Embarrassed'



Some blame the outfit. Others point a finger at Sarah Silverman. Still others question MTV's judgment in the first place to open the show with Britney Spears.

But whatever the reason, the pop star's lackluster performance of her new single "Gimme More" is getting universally bashed the day after her supposed "comeback" in a sparkly black bikini and blonde weave on Sunday's Video Music Awards.

"Britney was supposed to wear a matching corset that she opted out of wearing at the last minute," a source tells PEOPLE. "She was just plain nervous because of all the hype and she's embarrassed."

Adds another, "She looked disappointed" backstage after the performance.

In addition to the barbed comments (everyone from Whoopi Goldberg to The New York Times piled on), conspiracy theories abounded as to why Spears appeared out of it and uninspired.

Fan site BreatheHeavy.com and photo agency X17 speculated that Spears was thrown off after hearing Sarah Silverman rehearse her monologue (which ripped Spears and called her kids "mistakes").

But Silverman's rep tells PEOPLE it's untrue: "Sarah never rehearsed her full monologue ahead of time so no one knew what Sarah was going to say except for Sarah."

On another celeb blog, Oh No They Didn't, a reader posted supposed photo evidence that Britney was wobbling on a broken stiletto heel during her performance.

Whatever the case, critics were not impressed. Here's a rundown:

• All three New York newspapers tore into Spears's perceived comeback in their front-section news pages: "Britney Spears phoned it in for her 'comeback' performance ... It was a far cry from her energetic outings at VMAs past," the Daily News wrote.

•"Totally lame, pathetically lip-synched," lamented the New York Post. As for "Gimme More," said the paper, "the song about lusting for too much wasn't enough to launch a dinghy, let alone re-launch the career of this ditzy disaster."

• The New York Times chimed in, saying of Spears: "She didn't disappoint; she was awful. Visibly nervous, she tottered around the stage, dancing tentatively and doing nothing that sounded or looked like real live singing."

•Equally disappointed, the women on The View expressed sadness over what they considered a pop star disaster. "So sad," said both Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, though Behar, added, "She's a good role model in that she comes out and shows she's not skinny anymore."

"The lip-synching didn't work," said Barbara Walters. "She looks like she doesn't care," said Goldberg. "This is like a bad stripper." View guest Dr. Phil even said he watched the show and thought he'd "bought tickets to a train wreck."

Only online, it seems, did fans rush to Spears's defense. On BreatheHeavy.com, in reference to Silverman calling Spears's two young boys, Sean Preston and Jayden James "the cutest mistakes you've ever seen," Kierra wrote: "I was shocked when I heard it. I think that's the lowest thing to do. ... YOU DO NOT take a jab at a person's kids esp. babies. It seems like a few people in the audience thought the same."

Another poster, ColdAsFire, echoed the sentiment, writing, "Britney is not only a performer anymore. First and foremost she is a mother. If someone calls the child that grew in your womb a mistake ... I doubt you'd be able to just carry on."

But other fans on the forum were nonplussed by Spears – and also disappointed. "i love britney, but a few jokes from sarah does not mean you perform like that," an anonymous poster wrote, going on to wonder, "did sarah also sabotage all the big surprises in your performance?? did she force you to party all night before??"

If nothing else, Spears can take comfort in the words of rocker Pete Wentz – whose own VMA performance also underwhelmed some.

"Your fans are the most forgiving people on the planet. If you come out with something hot and awesome, they'll forget about it easily," Wentz told PEOPLE. "Like David Bowie would make 40 wrong turns and then come out with something so sweet that people would go forget about it."

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<--------justin says "Cry me a River"

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I cant stand Britney spears, she has become a joke.

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