A new book on Britney Spears promises to tell her story like never before.
Cultural critic Jeff Weiss is set to release “Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly,” which will explore the pop star’s “historic rise and equally tragic fall” through gonzo journalism, according to publisher MCD Books.
Weiss, a Los Angeles-based former tabloid reporter who covered Spears’ every move in the mid-2000s, penned the “frenetic account” in the style of Hunter S. Thompson, the legendary writer who popularized first-person journalism in the 1970s.
Across 400 pages, the author “follows America’s sweetheart through Vegas superclubs and Malibu car chases, annulled marriages and soul-crushing legal battles, all the way to Britney’s infamous 2007 VMA performance,” per its description.
The unconventional biography — “a roaring Künstlerroman of celebrity, obsession, morality and the last great pop star” — hits stores June 10.
In addition to covering Spears at the height of her fame, Weiss wrote a detailed analysis of the singer’s record-breaking 2000 album, “Oops! … I Did It Again,” for the Ringer, a sports and pop culture website, in 2020 in honor of its 20th anniversary.
The publication of “Waiting for Britney Spears” comes nearly two years after the Grammy winner released her memoir, “The Woman in Me,” which shot to the top of the New York Times’ bestseller list.
Page Six reviewed Spears’ 288-page book as a “survivor’s story” about a “tortured but triumphant figure who is still finding her footing in a world she once dominated” following the termination of her 13-year conservatorship.
In “The Woman in Me,” the global superstar, 43, detailed her family’s sordid history, her music career and her past relationships with Justin Timberlake, Kevin Federline and Sam Asghari.
Spears also memorably revealed in her autobiography that she had an abortion while dating Timberlake in the early 2000s and admitted to cheating on the former *NSYNC member, leading to their highly publicized breakup.
“The Woman in Me” is now being developed into a biopic by “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu.
A source told Page Six last year that Spears will be involved in the movie, though casting has yet to begin.
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