Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your Las Vegas residency of music news. I'm your

host Ben Ratliff. I'm a I'm a American dream since I was 17

don't matter if I step on the scene

no stick away to the fill of things.

They still gonna pick pictures of mud,

their ear in the magazine. Do you want a piece of me by

by Britney Spears and today we're here with Serge Kovaleski, Joe Coscarelli, Times Culture

Reporters and Karen Gans, New York Times Pop Music Editor.

Hi everybody.

Hey Ben. And we are talking about Brittany Spears.

Serge and Joe, you wrote an article together that is online this week and

will be in Sunday's Arts and Leisure section about Brittany Spears who just to sort of set the scene

last fall she announced a two-year

35 million dollar deal to extend her residency at Caesars Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.

And recently she was named the fifth highest earning female musician by Forbes ahead of Nicky Manage, Riana, which seems quite impressive

and amazing.

They're at their peaks. Yes. And so and this is eight years since the incident, the so-called meltdown.

And so at 34, she seems to have rebounded extremely well. In your article what you write about is that since

2008 he's been living under the restrictions of a conservatorship. Can you

describe what that means?

Sure, so a conservatorship, this one is specific

to Los Angeles County in California,

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