Britney Spears’ first love has sounded off on the comeback crack heard around the world. ”It just makes me so sad. … What were she and her team thinking?” a VMA mole overheard Justin Timberlake gushing to a member of his posse following Britney Spears’ 2007 MTV Video Music Award opener.

Rihanna, who was candidly captured laughing with a friend in the front row toward the end of Britney’s performance, reportedly told friends: ”I know high school kids who could have done better.”