What We Learned From The Flurry Of New Britney Spears Documentaries
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Ahead of Wednesday's court hearing in the conservatorship case, Hulu, Netflix and CNN all have documentaries about the pop star.
“I wasn’t good. I was great.”
It’s a line I keep thinking about from the more than 20 minutes Britney Spears spoke by phone during a court hearing on June 23. The audio is one of the rare times she has talked publicly about the 13-year court-ordered conservatorship orchestrated by her father, Jamie.
As if we needed to be reminded of how great and influential of a performer Britney Spears was — and is. But we did because of how long she hasn’t been able to control her own narrative. In February, the documentary “Framing Britney Spears,” from The New York Times, FX and Hulu, brought more public attention to both the conservatorship and the years of sexist and exploitative media coverage that came to define her public image. It also started to illuminate the broader issue of conservatorships and the ways these arrangements can exploit the people they are aimed to protect.