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In ‘Waiting for Britney Spears,’ Jeff Weiss writes about becoming an unrepentant co-conspirator in the plot to knock down Spears, one breaking news item at a time.

The chronological book opens with Britney Spears reigniting industry interest in mainstream pop after the roaring success of her snappy debut single, 1998’s “…Baby One More Time.”

“While there was a clear relationship between the interest in an artist like Britney Spears’s life and the interest in her music, that feedback loop did not exist for a lot of Black artists,” she writes.

That uniting thread is Spears.

Benito Skinner made the jump from viral content creator to comedy series creator with this offbeat look at a millennial college-set coming out tale scored by era-defining tracks from Charli xcx, Britney Spears and even My Chemical Romance.