At first, things seem fine enough, if not terribly exciting, but after 16 minutes of small talk, generic EDM songs playing in the background (most of which don't even feature the focus of the evening) and Mario Lopez’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance, the excitement really begins.
Earlier this month, a concert industry trade magazine executive told the Los Angeles Times a Spears return to the stage. The 28-minute program opened with shots of the Strip, the crowd, and plenty of the hotel itself, with the whole thing hosted by Ellen’s correspondent Kalen Allen, who did his best to excite viewers and remind everyone of how much of an icon Spears is. Plans for another residency in 2019, this time at Park MGM, were canceled. Her fans and the curious public tuned in to see something spectacular, but what they got was an overhyped, overproduced dud of a PR stunt. The event was in front of the Park MGM hotel in Las Vegas, so it was immediately obvious that the star was about to reveal she’s planning a return to Sin City for another residency less than a year after she stepped out of her history-making first stint, but that’s not why people tuned in. The chart-topping icon also went viral recently, as her name appeared in a livestream hosted on Ellen’s YouTube page.
