The 90 minute concert in support of her new album, "Britney" (Jive), was was a slight improvement over her last Detroit-area appearance. However, her personality still came across as stale and insincere.

Spears kicked off her performance with a scene straight out of Duran Duran's "Wild Boys" video, strapped to a circular disk that spun as she lip-synched to "Oops! ... I Did It Again." Most of her vocals were clearly pre-taped, perhaps even including the obscene number of obnoxious, Janet Jackson-like "Woo"s that she spewed forth.

"I want to welcome you to a world where anything can happen," Spears said, extending her hand like a pageant queen after "You Drive Me Crazy." She then quickly fell below the stage for the first of about seven costume changes.

For "Stronger," and a handful of other tunes, she stood alone on the vast stage, looking naked without her dancers nearby. Like her HBO performance from Las Vegas, Spears introduced "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" with a few words for skeptics.

"I get a lot of flack for what I wear, what I do, what I say or don't say," she said, sitting on a piano bench. "But I'm not a little girl anymore,"

Taking a page out of the performance histories of Madonna and Janet Jackson, Spears' concert incorporated short skits (the show was presented as a dream sequence), dancing and film footage. The in-the-round mainstage has a runway that extends to a second stage near the back of the venue. To her credit, Spears utilized it to the fullest, unlike U2 on its Elevation tour.

The high-energy show did little to move the audience, however, save the second-to-last number, the hit "I'm a Slave 4 U." The crowd of mostly teen- and pre-teen-aged girls stood stoic (though scantily clad) during a majority of the concert. Many of them gasped, however, when Spears, with the help of bungee cords, jumped off an elevated platform after her rendition of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll."

Spears ended her show with a one-song encore, a ballad version of "... Baby One More Time" sung in a downpour of rain that resembled a special effect from Genesis’ hey-day.

O-Town, the boy band created during the ABC television show "Making the Band," opened the show with a 40-minute set. Vocally stronger than past performances, O-Town still came across as mechanical in its dance moves and stage banter.