...Dream...

...Within A Dream...

I was watching Britney Spears' "Dream Within A Dream Tour" on DVD the other night, it was filmed back in 2001 back when she was America's sweetheart, when it was obvious that performing was her number one when she had the perfectly sculpted body and no children to speak of. I was watching it thinking she had a spark there; a spark of determination and her eyes had passion and her dancing had soul. This was before the media went into overdrive about her private life and before the world saw her fall from grace, so to speak while she dealt with her own inner demons.
The DWAD tour saw her fearlessly dance to thousands of fans, young and old alike, dressed as a ballerina in a life-size music box, saw her on a type of bungee for "What It's Like To Be Me" and dance through her own cascading waterfall-Esq wall of water and saw her ever more daring costumes like the "Slave 4 U" number.
Some of her most popular songs from the "Oops!..I Did It Again" album; "Stronger" and "Lucky" reminded me of the tough times she's had and all she's been through, with lyrics such as "Stronger than yesterday" and "Isn't she lucky this Hollywood girl" respectively. I think the song that most sums up things is "Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" as the moral of the song or its message is that whatever happens I'm gonna be OK, I'm gonna find it within myself, my inner strength. This is what Britney had to say about the song during an interview.
Something that always stuck in my mind from this concert was when she was talking to the audience right before the song "Not A Girl..," she pleaded with them to "never, ever loose their passion to dream...please don't." That was a nineteen year old Spears, she'll never be nineteen again but she can be that girl again, and i just hope this time being on the stage again in full glare of the spotlight that she loves every second of it liked it seemed on from her previous tour, because if not then what's the point?...