Ep 196: Symposium: Britney Spears's New Memoir

A few times a year, I like to let you listen in on the conversations we're having in the Secret Stuff Patreon community. Each month we meet twice over Zoom to talk about something culturally relevant (we call this Symposium) or to talk about books (a pretty traditional Book Club). This Secret Stuff meeting was a bit of a mashup of the two.

When it was announced that icon and legend Britney Spears was releasing a memoir this Fall, I knew it would make a splash in the publishing industry and in the celebrity world. And it did. The Woman In Me sold over a million copies in its first week of release, and there were a few bombshells from the singer's life, most notably about her relationship with Justin Timberlake.

But what is just as fascinating about the content of the book is the way she chose to tell it, and that she was able to tell it at all. After 13 years in a conservatorship held by her father, where everything she did was tracked and controlled, Britney is finally free to share her side of the story.

As usual, the Secret Stuff community had smart, thoughtful, and compassionate takes on the memoir itself and on Britney's place in music history and our pop culture lexicon.

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Mentioned in This Episode:

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

Tell Me Everything by Minka Kelly

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey

Takeaways from Britney Spears's memoir (NYT)

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