It's Britney, bestseller!

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🗓️ 27 October 2023

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Summary

Britney Spears just released one of the most hotly anticipated celebrity memoirs of the year, The Woman In Me. The book details her meteoric rise to fame, her family history, and her 13 year-long conservatorship. This week, host Britney Luse talks to the two best people to break it all down: Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton, comedians and co-hosts of the Celebrity Memoir Book Club podcast. Together they look at what the princess of pop is trying to tell us, how she contextualizes her own story and how she doesn't seem to implicate the audience in her abuse.

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0:18.7	I'm Verilus, you're listening to it's been a minute from NPR.
0:25.8	The warning to listeners, this segment includes mentions of abuse and suicide.
0:32.2	Like many millennials in their mid-30s, I have so many fond memories of a little MTV
0:38.2	show called Total Request Live.
0:45.6	After school, me and every other preteen in America would run up our parents' phone
0:49.7	bills, calling in to request our favorite music videos by Destiny's Child, Blink 182,
0:56.0	and of course Miss Brittany Spears.
1:02.6	Brittany was our teen queen, she was pretty, she was sweet, and she had the hits.
1:09.8	For a brief moment in time she was a girl, not yet a woman, but after custody battles,
1:15.3	a public meltdown and her restrictive 13-year conservatorship, Brittany's girl next
1:20.5	tour image changed, and her story became shrouded in mystery.
1:25.3	Until this week, when Brittany released her first ever memoir, The Woman in Me.
1:32.0	Now if you know me, you know I have been waiting on this book and I tore through it the
1:38.0	day it came out, but I'm not the only one who was ready to hear Brittany's truth.
1:43.4	Someone today said, oh is this like your Olympics, so we go, I don't know, do Olympics
1:46.8	happen once in a lifetime?
1:48.4	No, it's bigger than the Olympics.
1:50.8	If you don't get a gold medal, you can try again in four years.
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