Author: Jeff Weiss
Title: Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 400
Release Date: 2025-06-10
Details:
A wild, unflinching account of Britney Spears’s meteoric rise—and her equally iconic unraveling—from Jeff Weiss, L.A.’s answer to Hunter S. Thompson.
America, 2003: a nation at war, its gloss beginning to peel. Von Dutch trucker hats. The Simple Life. And on every magazine cover, a twenty-two-year-old pop princess named Britney Spears.
Chasing her across Vegas superclubs and Malibu freeways is Jeff Weiss, a young reporter grinding for a third-tier gossip rag. He wanted to be a “serious” writer. Instead, he found himself embedded in the front lines of America’s celebrity circus—watching, in real time, the slow tragedy of a starlet and a country losing their innocence.
Years later, Weiss returns with Waiting for Britney Spears—a gonzo, nostalgic, and mostly true memoir of those tabloid years. From annulled marriages to car chases, from cringe-inducing fashion waves to soul-crushing courtrooms, he chronicles Britney’s rise, her infamous 2005 VMA performance, and the spiral that ended in conservatorship.
What emerges is more than a portrait of a fallen pop star. It’s a roaring Künstlerroman of celebrity, obsession, and morality—where the decline of America itself is reflected in the downfall of its last great golden child.
EAN: 9780374606138
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.499985 inches, Length: 5 inches, Weight: 1.00089866948 Pounds, Width: 0.999998 inches
Languages: en
