Concert Stories 10: Britney Spears

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#10

Britney Spears

Opener: BBMak

Marcus Amphitheater

July 8, 2000

Age: 17

See this photo? Yeah, that's how awesome this concert was!

OMG this was a great one for me and one that I'll never forget!  My brother was a huge Britney Spears fan (and myself as well).  He got these tickets for his birthday and was pretty much forced to take me along with him.  We had awesome 2nd row seats right in the center section!  A little bit before the show started a security guard saw that I had a camera with me.  Cameras were not allowed in the show and he mentioned it to me but also mentioned that if I keep the flash off and don’t take too many pictures I should be good.  That piece of advice came in useful as I followed his directions and got many great photos, and I should mention everyone around me got stopped by security because they all used their flashes (side note: who uses a flash at a concert? It really is pointless).  

But on to the show, man was it great!  I do not care if Britney sings live or not, she gave such a great show.  The choreography, the costume changes, it was a full on production.  It was such a blast and a fun night that I will remember forever.  Before her, BBMak opened, remember them?  Probably not, they sang that song “Out of My Heart”.  They gave a pretty standard show and I remember I was a bit annoyed that when they threw their towels into the crowd, the 10 year old boy next to me caught both!  Revenge would be mine though as Britney Spears threw her pink cowboy hat into the crowd that night and not only did I beat that boy to it, I beat the woman in front of me as well.  Being 5’9” I snatched that cowboy hat out of the air above her head.  She grabbed on to it as well, but let’s just say I played basketball and “boxing out” was the one thing I was good at.  Needless to say, she was pretty po’d at me but I was so excited and thrilled that I caught her hat!  Fast forward 15 years and I still have that hat, what I'll do with it who knows but people still mention my boxing out skills to this day.

And here's her hat in all it's bent up glory!