Bobby Brown didn’t for illustration Britney Spears’ screen of his 1988 opus “My Prerogative” — and that’s putting it mildly.
“Britney Spears butchered ‘My Prerogative,'” Brown candidly admitted to Shannon Sharpe during a chat astir screen songs connected Wednesday’s section of the “Club Shay Shay” podcast.
“Teddy Riley produced it. But that was a butchering. I couldn’t return it.”
Sharpe, however, pointed retired that Brown had “cleared” nan cover. “I cleared it, only because it was Britney Spears!” Brown, 56, exclaimed, insinuating that he thought she’d wow him.
A rep for Spears did not instantly return Page Six’s petition for comment.
Spears, 43, famously covered nan catchy tune successful 2004 amid her doomed matrimony to ex Kevin Federline, pinch whom she now shares 2 grown sons.
The screen was 1 of 3 caller tracks connected nan singer’s compilation album “Greatest Hits: My Prerogative,” though Bloodshy & Avant, a accumulation duo from Sweden, really oversaw nan screen — not Teddy Riley.
Brown confessed that he’d learned a instruction from nan disappointment complete Spears’ cover, saying, “I gotta perceive it [to clear it] because you don’t cognize what these kids will opportunity these days.”
“These kids opportunity immoderate s–t that… you don’t want your opus associated pinch it.”
Many fans of Spears took objection to Brown’s blunt appraisal and headed to X to sound disconnected connected his brutal comments.
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“New headline: Bobby Brown, connected nan brink of being forgotten, brings up Britney Spears to enactment relevant,” tweeted a fan, while different wrote, “Britney’s type slaps though—maybe he conscionable needs to springiness it different spin?”
“Everyone agrees Britney’s type is nan superior version,” declared a third. “I don’t make nan rules.”
“Britney’s type is perfectly incredible,” a 4th personification wrote. “No thought an original type moreover existed.”
Brown’s original deed appeared connected his 2nd workplace album, “Don’t Be Cruel,” and yet spent 24 weeks connected Billboard’s Hot 100 successful 1988.