In “Waiting for Britney Spears,” Jeff Weiss looks back at the forces surrounding the pop star’s rise and fall.

Hit Girls' thoroughly examines the 2000s through the lens of some of the decade's music icons, including Britney Spears, ...

Journalist Jeff Weiss’ new book is as much about the pop princess as it is his own complicity in early-2000s celebrity culture: “I look back with contempt and disgust and wonder” Weiss says ...

In an excerpt from his buzzy new book, Jeff Weiss recalls a mid-2000s golden age when the tabloids tracked the starlets’ ...

His way in was that Britney Spears ’s video for her 1998 smash “Baby One More Time” had been filmed at his high school, an event Weiss describes as “a cluster bomb filled with candy.” What makes ...

In her new book, Toxic, Ditum analyzes how digital cameras, the Internet and tabloid misogyny created ... NPR's Scott Detrow about the infamous Britney Spears interview with Diane Sawyer, the ...

Weiss, a Los Angeles-based former tabloid reporter who covered Spears ... and pop culture website, in 2020 in honor of its 20th anniversary. The publication of “Waiting for Britney Spears ...

Cultural critic and former tabloid reporter ... Britney’s life and the culture that consumed her. “The story is chaotic because her life was chaotic. “Britney Spears wasn’t just a person ...

A reckoning with Y2K tabloid culture, misogynistic media narratives ... JC Chasez. Read More: Britney Spears Feared Her Family Would Kill Her, She Writes in New Book In her memoir, Spears ...

Even 20 years ago, Weiss had a constant, nagging feeling that the magazines he worked for were exploiting the people they covered, and making the culture ... ordering old tabloid magazines on ...