Bobby Brown blasted Britney Spears‘ 2004 cover of his 1988 hit song My Prerogative, claiming she and Swedish production team Bloodshy & Avant didn’t do it ‘justice.’
‘Britney Spears butchered Prerogative,’ the 56-year-old Grammy winner told Club Shay Shay host Shannon Sharpe on Wednesday.
Bobby appeared to be under the false impression that his original co-songwriter Teddy Riley had signed on to produce the 43-year-old Grammy winner’s cover, which he called ‘a butchering that I could not take.’
‘I cleared it only because it was Britney Spears and I was thinking… Teddy Riley’s doing it too, so you know? But I felt it was a butchering,’ Brown lamented.
The Boston-born belter explained that, like rapper LL Cool J, he’s now learned to listen to the entire song before clearing samples or allowing others to cover his songs.
‘Yes, I gotta hear it,’ Bobby noted.
Bobby Brown blasted Britney Spears’ 2004 cover of his 1988 hit song My Prerogative, claiming she and Swedish production team Bloodshy & Avant didn’t do it ‘justice’
The 56-year-old Grammy winner told Club Shay Shay host Shannon Sharpe on Wednesday: ‘Britney Spears butchered Prerogative’
‘I gotta hear it because you don’t know what these kids will say these days. These kids say some s*** that you don’t want your song associated with, so yeah you gotta listen to it.’
Brown co-founded the boyband New Edition, at age 12, in 1981 before going solo to much success in the late eighties and nineties, and My Prerogative was written as a direct response to the criticism of his exit.
The New Jack Swing pioneer’s original version topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, sold 500K copies, amassed 77.2M Spotify streams, and the music video has 66M views on YouTube.
By contrast, Britney’s cover only topped the charts in Finland, Ireland, Italy, and Norway; but sold 500K copies; amassed 53M Spotify streams; and the music video has 51M views on YouTube.
Speaking of covers, Spears and Elton John’s Tiny Dancer-inspired track Hold Me Closer reached No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and sold 1M copies in 2022.
The semi-retired pop star – whose 13-year conservatorship finally ended in 2021 – spends much of her time filming herself dancing in scantily clad get-ups at her $11.8M Calabasas mansion for the viewing pleasure of her 156.4M social media following.
Britney will be very hands on with her fully-authorized biopic for Universal Pictures, which is still in the developmental stage under Wicked director Jon M. Chu.
On August 1, Universal ‘paid in the low eight figures’ for the rights to Spears’ NY Times-bestselling 2023 memoir The Woman In Me and music catalogue in the movie from producer Marc Platt.
Simon & Schuster originally paid the former Mouseketeer a $12.5M advance (25% of the net profits) to pen the critically-acclaimed tell-all with three alleged ghostwriters – Ada Calhoun, Sam Lansky, and Luke Dempsey.
Bobby appeared to be under the false impression that his original co-songwriter Teddy Riley had signed on to produce the 43-year-old Grammy winner’s cover, which he called ‘a butchering that I could not take’
‘I cleared it only because it was Britney Spears and I was thinking… Teddy Riley’s doing it too, so you know? But I felt it was a butchering,’ Brown lamented
The Boston-born belter explained that, like rapper LL Cool J, he’s now learned to listen to the entire song before clearing samples or allowing others to cover his songs
Bobby co-founded the boyband New Edition, at age 12, in 1981 before going solo to much success in the late eighties and nineties, and My Prerogative was written as a direct response to the criticism of his exit (pictured in 1986)
Brown’s original version topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, sold 500K copies, amassed 77.2M Spotify streams, and the music video has 66M views on YouTube
By contrast, Britney’s cover only topped the charts in Finland, Ireland, Italy, and Norway; but sold 500K copies; amassed 53M Spotify streams; and the music video has 51M views on YouTube
Speaking of covers, Spears and Elton John’s Tiny Dancer-inspired track Hold Me Closer reached No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and sold 1M copies in 2022
The semi-retired pop star – whose 13-year conservatorship finally ended in 2021 – spends much of her time filming herself dancing in scantily clad get-ups at her $11.8M Calabasas mansion (pictured last Friday)
