Double Elvis

Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

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

13 years as a conservatine under her father, Jamie, is a story that is so complex that

we require two episodes to properly tell it.

If you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hip pause and go back to the previous

episode of Disgraceland, part one of the Britney Spears saga, where we discuss Britney'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, and 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 from my melaton 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 steppin' cheese could I afford

it?

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

day Britney Spears was finally allowed to address the chord about her conservatorship

after more than a dozen years of suffering and silence.

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