By the way, whoever came up with Britney's sexy-degenerate circus motif for this tour stole it from the Genitorturers last tour (Kind of like how Ministry stole the "band behind the cage" idea from Megadeth.)
In this case, the giveaway is the spark-showering power disc sanders and the S and M chic.
Is nothing sacred? What's next? Is Spears going to lift Sick of it All's patented "4 Way Wall of Death" while Dick Cheney looks on in approval?
[I can hardly explain how cool a Genitorturers show was back in the early 90's. We're talking S and M metal performance art of the highest order. While singing songs about masturbation and sex and violence, fans from the audience would be invited up on stage to get their breasts or tongues pierced by lead singer Gen, who worked as a registered nurse during the day. I saw the Genitorturers at Visage in Orlando with my friend George on May 30th, 1993. Marylin Manson opened, and nearly got booed off the stage. Then the Genitorturers came on and blew the lid off the joint. A metalhead next to me made the mistake of calling Gen a "bitch". She instructed him to use the term "lady" and then stepped on his face with her boot. Then she learned that it was another (male) fan's birthday. She brought him up on stage and had him strip to his underpants and sit in a chair. She told him to masturbate while she sang "Jackin' Man". The performance culminated in a lap dance for the birthday boy. In short, Gen and her band were railing against the sterility of Florida's "Disney-like" faux culture when Britney was literally performing for the Mickey Mouse club. And now to see Britney lift some of Gen's act for her own ends is too much to swallow. Sadly, the Genitorturers ended up trying to copy NIN and Ministry, musically. The results were quite poor. So I can't say they are innocent or that you should buy their albums. But, at one time, their stage shows were second to none.]
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