Unseated from the highest position of the Top 200 album charts because of a lousy, 11th hour reversal of Billboard's "no retail-giant exclusives" policy that instead gave the spot to the Eagles' "Long Road Out of Wal-Mart," Britney Spears will have to settle with the knowledge that her new album came out a solid number two.

However, even 11 bajillion "Blackout" units sold wouldn't reverse what has by every account been a nightmare year for the singer, with Us Weekly taking one look at her potbellied David Lee Roth Halloween costume and declaring her on its cover not merely an outrageously incompetent parent, but mentally "SICK!" It's enough to make you long for the far less autonomous Spears of yesteryear, who'd obligingly render herself limp to better facilitate her army of handlers' constant string-tugging. That's the Britney Las Vegas review Little Legends, featured in this ET clip, wants us to remember: The smiling, dewy-eyed lil' entertainer who came no higher than our waists, and whose greatest gaucheries warranted no more than an, "Oops!"