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thought until I read his memoir. And I’m glad I did. It was very interesting. So, first things first, I read Britney’s memoir. I think I covered it on this podcast. Um, the thing that stood out is that she well, it’s been a while since I read it and I read a lot. By read, I mean audio
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books. I don’t actually sit down with a real book, but um I devour a lot of content, whether it’s podcast or audiobooks. And so, it’s been a long time since I read her book, but I distinctly remember that she passed the buck a lot. She had like four ghost
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writers, three three who quit during the process and one who managed to hang on. And it was obviously told through her lens. It was as she was getting out of the conservatorship. She was saying she was doing a lot of vitamins rather than drugs. We all know
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she got a little cuckoo for cocoa puffs there in the as it didn’t always feel genuine. Additionally, I absolutely hated that Michelle Williams was reading it because we love Britney because she’s a little unhinged. She’s open. She’s fresh. And Michelle Williams just felt so buttoned
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up. And it felt like that memoir was a little buttoned up, too. I wanted to see the raw parts of Britney. I wanted to see the exposed parts. I wanted it to feel more true and real. And with Kayfed’s book, Kayfed’s book is called You Thought You Knew. And I will tell
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you there were no major revelations in this book for me. I did think I knew I did think I knew that Britney was a hot mess. And she was. The thing that surprised me is that Kayfed really threw her under the bus. The first half of the book I found to be much more interesting
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when he was talking about sort of his work as a backup dancer because people love to dump on kayfed and I think rightfully so. He has a reputation for just being a major stoner, somebody who was kind of just writing the coattales of her fame, but he did have a lot of
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talent in his own right, which I think people forget. You know, to get to the level where you’re backup dancing for Michael Jackson, where you are going on tour with LFO and even being on the same stage as Britney, you do have to be pretty good at your craft. He came from
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really humble beginnings and managed to work his way up in Los Angeles to a pretty successful position if you ask me. And I don’t think that should be discounted. And I don’t even think he gave himself enough credit for that piece of his journey at the beginning of
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the book. He kind of rushed through it. Now, was I impressed that he was a baby daddy to six children with three different mamas and he kept touting himself as like this great dad. And yet his first two kids with Char, he basically just left for her to raise.
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and then his two kids with Britney, he was raising and doing a lot of work, but at the same time he was doing a ton of drugs and he was out, you know, producing his album, talking with Snoop Dogg. I mean, and then part two of the book, he is trashing Britney. like really trashing her in
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such a way that led me to believe, well, not led me to believe, I mean, he says it outright, that he was also trashing Britney in front of her children. He was telling her children, Jaden, your mom likes your brother better than she likes you. And I’m sorry, that’s a really
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horrible thing, but you just got to face it. Like, what? You did not tell a young child that. Maybe you talk to Britney about that. Maybe you see if you can mitigate that in some way. But trashtalking their mom, even if they’re coming to you with some wounds that
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she’s created, in my opinion, is not the way to go. He took every possible opportunity to throw her under the bus. He talked about how many drugs she was doing while she was breastfeeding. And that’s not okay. I am not condoning any part of that. But I’m also not
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condoning the fact that he was out blazing with his bros. I mean, these are exact quotes. Uh, one of his quotes was, um, I’m going to blaze. That’s who I am. It was just such a double standard that she is a mom now and she should not be doing any drugs and she should be more
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nurturing and more available and yet I’m going to go on a tour. I’m going to promote my album. I’m going to be out at the club buying drugs, taking drugs across international borders. I mean, what? I just thought that that was so tonedeaf and I thought it would have been really
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more compelling if he would have taken some accountability for his own actions. Um, you know, I keep up with Britney even though I was never a fan. I was never a fan of either of these people. I don’t know. I just love pop culture. But I keep up with her on Instagram and yes,
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she’s been unhinged. She’s had the videos Dancing with the Knives. She’s always scantily clad, wearing basically underwear and dancing around. I mean, she’s kind of stuck in the same age and mentality of when she was popular and on stage, and that’s essentially what she
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was wearing. So, you kind of feel like she’s frozen in time, but it’s really sad as she’s maturing. I mean, she still looks fabulous, but she looks crazy at the same time. And she’s spouting crazy things and typing crazy captions. And so, I don’t feel like she should
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necessarily have custody of her children. I don’t feel like though Kay Fed is saying all this horrible stuff about her that he’s lying. But it just feels like the mirror is not