Would you believe it’s been half a decade since we last saw La Brit on the road? Five years after a knee injury shorted out her Onyx Hotel Tour, the star — then still but a Cheeto-twirling pop tartlet, now a 27-year-old battle-hardened divorcee and mother of two — brought the Circus to New Orleans last night.
Dressed as a sexy ringmaster, directing a colorful cast thatincluded jugglers, acrobats, and martial arts dancers, the Louisiana native treated a nearly sold-out crowd to, as the Associated Press describes it, "a tightly choreographed, if perfunctory" performance (see a sneak peak provided by her new sponsor, Candies, below), full of Big Top-style razzle-dazzle. The ringmistress herself was widely reported to be lip-syncing her way through hits like the more recent"Womanizer" and "Piece of Me" and the now 10-year-old(!) "Baby One More Time."
Readers, you’ll have 26 more chances to catch her live before she heads to Europe in June….Will U Seek Britney?
The natural first reaction, once you discover the hidden meaning embedded in the title of Britney Spears’ third single from Circus (if you say it fast, it spells something out) is a big ol’ eye roll. Hardy har har, Brit. You’re oh-so naughty. That was definitely my reaction when the brouhaha first started up after the song appeared on the album’s tracklist. But now "If You Seek Amy" is set for radio play, and it’s actually ruffling feathers as station managers wonder if the title, which in and of itself is not profane, of course, will earn them FCC fines. And suddenly, I’m smirking at how this little gag is pushing 
A Los Angeles judge yesterday 
It’s a shame that EW has already closed its Best and Worst of 2008 issue, which hits stands Friday and includes our picks for the year’s Great Performances, because Britney Spears’ caroling excursion with Ellen DeGeneres might’ve earned a spot on that list — for Spears’ publicist. Great move. Catch B & E’s two-part adventure on 
My apologies for the outburst in my headline up there, but this demands an emphatic exclamation. First-week sales results just came out for Britney Spears’ new album, and not only did she debut at No. 1 (no huge surprise there) — she did it by 
Happy year-in-review day, P-Dubs. Yahoo! just released its 
Welcome to this week’s edition of 
