Welcome to the Waves, Sleep's podcast about gender, feminism, and it's Brittany Bench.

The concept is like taking place at a school.

It was kind of my idea, and it takes place at a school, and the kids can't wait to get out.

The pop star shaved her own head Friday.

Spears showed up at a San Fernando Valley salon requesting the hairless do.

The salon owners said she tried to talk her out of it, but Spears insisted on shaving her head.

After her main event, we thought they could be dead by now, but they both resurrected their career,

and the public has forgiven them because even at 16, Brittany's shaking her subconscious.

More of a cautionary tale, despite provocative videos playing to the schoolgirl fetishes of dirty old men.

Justin Timberlake has apologized to Brittany Spears after a new documentary led to criticism

of how he treated her during and after a relationship. He also apologized to Janet Jackson.

And the woman got good care Brittany's alive because of it.

There's very few celebrities have that kind of enlightened people.

Brittany Spears devastated by the fact her sons have not seen or spoken to her in six months.

Every episode, you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing.

We just can't get off our minds.

And today you've got me, Nicole Lewis, former senior editor at Slate.

And me, Daisy Rosario, senior supervising producer of Audio here at Slate.

Brittany Spears is newly released from her conservatorship.

And for the first time in what feels like decades, she's speaking up and openly about her experiences.

And of course, her family is really not happy about that.

So this family feud right now is playing out very, very publicly.

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