REWIND - Britney Spears (Pt. 2): Lithium, Las Vegas, and a Long-Awaited Emancipation

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.6 • 13.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Britney Spears’ 13-year conservatorship was an arrangement so strict and 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. As Britney suffered in silence, she worked nearly non-stop, generating more hits — and revenue — so her father could claim his cut of the profits. But after hundreds of shows in Las Vegas and $137 million in box office sales, Britney buckled and told her conservators “no.” Then her social media went radio silent in 2019. This is the story of what came next — and how Britney Spears finally broke free. For the full list of contributors, visit disgracelandpod.com This episode was originally published on July 26, 2022. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTER Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: Instagram YouTube X (formerly Twitter) Facebook Fan Group TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.0	Disgrace land is a production of Double Elvis.
0:44.0	Britney Spears, her troubling family ties, her reign in tabloid hungry culture, and her 13 years as a conservatee under her father, Jamie, is a story that is so complex that we required two episodes to properly tell it.
1:05.0	If you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hit pause and go back to the previous
1:09.6	episode of Disgraceland, part one of the Britney Spears Saga, where we discussed Brittany's unstable
1:15.2	childhood in Louisiana, her father's reckless drinking and anger issues, and the media-fueled
1:21.2	meltdown that placed her under his thumb in 2008.
1:24.9	In this episode, we get into the details of that conservatorship, an arrangement so strict
1:30.3	and so unfeeling that it left her without any control of her career,
1:34.8	loopy on lithium, and completely silenced for the sake of seeing her sons and
1:39.7	boyfriend. But even during those 13 years of submission and surveillance,
1:45.0	Brittany Spears refused to stop making great music.
1:49.0	Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, which wasn't great music.
1:54.4	That was a preset loop for my melotron called Neon Nightlife MK1.
2:00.1	I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to butter by BTS.
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