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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Britney Spears' Memoir The Woman in Me

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

Books, Music, After Shows, Tv & Film, Film Reviews, News, Tv Reviews, Arts, Entertainment News, Music Commentary

4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Britney Spears just released one of the most hotly anticipated celebrity memoirs of the year. The Woman In Me details her meteoric rise to fame, her family history, and her 13-year-long conservatorship. Today we're bringing you a special episode of It's Been a Minute, where host Brittany Luse and her guests discuss all the juicy, strange, and sad highlights from the new book.

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Hey, I'm Aisha Harris, co-host of Pop culture Happy Hour, and today we're bringing you a special episode of It's

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Betiminit.

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Now, if you've been following the saga of Brittany Spears you're probably aware

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she recently released her Tell All Memoir, The Woman in Me. Host Brittany Luce and her guests discussed

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all the juicy, strange, and very sad highlights.

0:23.2

Check it out.

0:24.0

I'm Brittany Loose.

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You're listening to It's been a minute from NPR.

0:31.0

A warning to listeners, this segment includes mentions of abuse and suicide.

0:37.2

Like many millennials in their mid 30s, I have so many fond memories of a little MTV show called Total Requests Live.

0:47.0

After school, me and every other preteen in America would run up our parents phone bills,

0:55.6

calling in to request our favorite music videos by Destiny's Child, Blink 182,

1:01.0

and of course, Miss Brittany Spears.

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Brittany was our teen queen.

1:07.0

Brittany was our teen queen.

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She was pretty, she was sweet, and she had the hits.

1:15.0

For a brief moment in time she was a girl, not yet a woman,

1:18.9

but after custody battles, a public meltdown

1:21.8

and her restrictive 13-year conservatorship,

1:24.3

Brittany's girl next-door image changed and her story became shrouded in mystery.

1:29.8

Until this week when Brittany released her first ever memoir, The Woman in Me.

1:37.0

Now if you know me, you know I have been waiting on this book and I tore through it the day it came out. But I'm not the only

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