Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

Britney Spears, her troubling family ties, her reign in tabloid-hungry culture,

and her 13 years as a conservate under her father, Jamie,

is a story that is so complex that we

required two episodes to properly tell it. If you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest

you hit pause and go back to the previous episode of Disgraceland, part one of the Britney Spears

saga, where we discussed Brittany's unstable childhood in Louisiana, her father's reckless drinking

and anger issues, and the media-fueled meltdown that placed her under his thumb in 2008.

In this episode, we get into the details of that conservatorship, an arrangement so strict and so

unfeeling that it left her without any control of her career, loopy on lithium,

and completely silenced for the sake of seeing her sons and boyfriend. But even during those

13 years of submission and surveillance, Britney Spears refused to stop making great music.

Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show,

which wasn't great music, that was a preset loop for my Melotron called Neon Nightlife, MK1.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to butter by BTS. And why would I

play you that specific slice of smooth side-stepping cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on June 23, 2021.

And that was the day Britney Spears was finally allowed to address the court about her conservatorship after more than a dozen years of suffering in silence.

In this episode, lithium, submission, breaking the silence and the long-awaited emancipation of Britney Spears.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is This Graceland. Britney Spears knew she would have to be fast if she wanted to get away with it.

She thrust open the door to the local burger joint and held it open for her security card.

Not one she hired.

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