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Britney Spears (Pt. 2): Lithium, Las Vegas, and a Long-Awaited Emancipation
Season 10 Episode 106
Britney Spears’ 13-year conservatorship was an arrangement so strict and unfeeling that it left her without any control of her career, loopy on lithium, and completely silenced for the sake of seeing…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Britney Spears (Pt. 2): Lithium, Las Vegas, and a Long-Awaited Emancipation
Season 10 Episode 106
Britney Spears’ 13-year conservatorship was an arrangement so strict and unfeeling that it left her without any control of her career, loopy on lithium, and completely silenced for the sake of seeing…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Britney Spears (Pt. 1): Trauma Pop
Season 10 Episode 105
No musician owned pop music quite like Britney Spears at the turn of the century. After graduating from Mississippi tween queen to full-fledged American superstar, her fame exploded at a time when ta…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Britney Spears (Pt. 1): Trauma Pop
Season 10 Episode 105
No musician owned pop music quite like Britney Spears at the turn of the century. After graduating from Mississippi tween queen to full-fledged American superstar, her fame exploded at a time when ta…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
George Harrison: Surviving the Beatles, the London Drug Squad, and a Home Invasion
Season 9 Episode 104
George Harrison famously survived the dissolution of the Beatles, a bust by London’s drug squad, a potentially bloody visit from the Hell’s Angels, and a few rounds with cancer. But on the final day …
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
The Temptations: Fame, Drugs, and Paranoia
Season 9 Episode 103
The Temptations were one of Motown’s signature vocal groups, and they remain one of the most successful R&B acts of all time. But fame and drugs corrupted them from the beginning. Lineup changes were…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
The Temptations: Fame, Drugs, and Paranoia
Season 9 Episode 103
The Temptations were one of Motown’s signature vocal groups, and they remain one of the most successful R&B acts of all time. But fame and drugs corrupted them from the beginning. Lineup changes were…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Miles Davis Pt. 2: Mountains of Pills, Bitches Brew, and the Reinvention of the Original Motherf#%*er
Season 9 Episode 102
When it came to music, Miles Davis wasn’t about no safe, tired yesterday bullsh*t. After kicking his heroin addiction, he traded bespoke suits for fringe jackets and spearheaded an experimental blur …
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Miles Davis (Pt. 1): Blasting Bebop, Blasting Racism, and a Devastating Heroin Habit
Season 9 Episode 101
Miles Davis is jazz’s first and only rock star, with the rap sheet to prove it. He did enough cocaine to run down the entirety of 52nd street, and pimped out women when performing wasn’t paying the b…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Juice WRLD: Percocets, Lucid Dreams and a Whole Lotta Lean
Season 9 Episode 100
The loss of emo-rap trailblazer Juice WRLD is one of the most sudden, tragic, and graphic celebrity deaths in recent memory. His adolescence experimenting with bold beats, prescription pills, and lea…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago