Let me just state my takeaways, from someone who grew up with her music and liked it but was never a fan. SPOILERS below
I believe she has a horrible family, I don’t think they care for her at all, I think they stole her money and used her every chance they got. I’m amazed she’s standing at all.
But… based on the book, I get the feeling that Britneys not the most reliable narrator. Not that she’s lying, more like she’s a brilliant artist who lacks other skills. The story about her receipts and that one phone call to her mom, and how her early boyfriend’s used her. It makes me feel like she’s not all there. And we don’t get any information on how her boyfriend’s viewed the conservatorship, which bothers me so much…
What are your thoughts?
I wasn’t entirely engaged with the first third, but the rest I found very interesting, in terms of how one of the most well known women in the world could be held captive in open sight.
While I can only imagine how much she must have wanted to finally have her own words out there, I wonder if she could have benefitted from a bit more space between the end of the conservatorship and writing the book. What pressure was she under to get that churned out? It doesn’t seem like much time to even begin to process what happened, never mind putting it down for the scrutiny of the world