Mild SPOILERS ahead for We Are Lady Parts Season 2, now streaming with a Peacock subscription.
If the musical act in We Are Lady Parts wasn’t already quickly becoming one of our favorite fake bands after the hilarious and fun debut season back in 2021, the latest season only makes fans want to see them in concert even more. In Season 2, Lady Parts has some incredible song moments, from Malala Yousafzai making a cameo in a cowboy hat to an amazing punk cover of Britney Spears’ “Oops! I Did It Again”. CinemaBlend had the chance to speak to the show’s creator about making the latter happen.
When I had the pleasure of speaking to the creator behind We Are Lady Parts, Nida Manzoor, about the new season, she told us about filming the punk Britney Spears cover Lady Parts perform in one episode of Season 2. In her words:
One of the first things in the script was that Britney song was in there. And although you see the characters are a little bit like, ‘No, I don't wanna play Britney’, I was so ready to do a Britney cover. I'm like, ‘I need to do this. It's gonna be iconic.’ And my costume designer, PC Williams just was so excited to style them 'cause I was like, I want them to be in suits, but she's like, wanted to give them each of our unique suit look and the styling was so important and just iconic to the moment and setting it in a kind of a sort of a church venue and just everything just made it so fun and exciting to get to shoot.
In Episode 3, titled “It’s Britney Bitch,” the all-Muslim female band known as Lady Parts aren’t necessarily hyped to cover a pop song at a wedding rather than play their own music, but it was a different story behind the scenes. As Manzoor told us, she was “so ready” to have the fictional band take on the song, especially in their fly black suits. As she continued:
Lady Parts have a ton of great originals like “Bashir With The Good Beard” and “Voldemort Under My Head Scarf” but it was also fun to see them take on some awesome covers last season between Queen’s “We Are The Champions” and “9 to 5.” This season, the punk band have even more great music moments, but their Britney Spears cover is a real stand out. You can listen to the awesome cover here on YouTube:
In the middle of We Are Lady Parts Seasons 1 and 2, Nida Manzoor released Polite Society. It became a must-watch movie out of the Sundance Film Festival many couldn’t stop talking about before making our list for the best movies of 2023. At the time of the theatrical release, Manzoor told us she’s excited to make more “genre” movies in the future, in addition to We Are Lady Parts, of course.
You can check out six brand new episodes of We Are Lady Parts (along with the entirety of Season 1) on Peacock now. Also, check out what other 2024 TV premiere dates are out now and on the way.
Source; https://www.cinemablend.com/interviews/we-are-lady-parts-muslim-band-punk-cover-britney-spears-season-2-nida-manzoor
Hart said that she “should have known better,” being an older sister to her own set of siblings.
By Francesca Gariano
Melissa Joan Hart is expressing her regret after she revealed that she took a teenage Britney Spears to her first club.
Hart spoke to Entertainment Tonight on May 16 about her friendship with the popstar which developed after she appeared in the music video for her song “You Drive Me (Crazy).”
The former “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star, who is six years older than Spears, said that she and the singer would often do press together and “had a lot of fun” at the time, which lead to a sisterly bond between the stars.
Hart recalled a time when she tried to get Spears out of her shell and join her and her friends at a nightclub, explaining, “I saw that she was just surrounded by people, never able to break free. And I was like, ‘Hey want to come?’”
“I would go to a club every night -- I love dancing and I loved going out, but I also knew to be responsible and, like, when to stop,” she added.
Hart noted that she should have known better than to invite Spears to the club with her and said it was a moment she still thinks “to this day.”
“She was underage and young and -- but I [was] just like, ‘Let’s go out. We’re just gonna go out and have some fun,’” Hart said. “And I feel really guilty about that still to this day because I should have known better, being a big sister.”
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"That was the first time I saw that kind of power," the producer and writer said of Spears' stage presence.
By Rania Aniftos
Shonda Rhimes‘ talent knows no end, as she’s the mind behind classic TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Scandal and more. In the film world, she wrote many hits including 2002’s Crossroads starring Britney Spears.
The Television Hall of Famer recalled meeting the pop star before filming to Jennifer Hudson on the Thursday (May 23) episode of the latter’s talk show. “It was crazy. I was a serious nerd, so I did not know, like, who she was in terms of what her music was,” Rhimes revealed. “I just knew she was a pop star, but I didn’t know anything about her music or anything
She continued, “So, our first meeting was when I went to her concert and I met her backstage. That was the first time I saw that kind of power. She would move her eyebrow and the audience would lose their minds. It was amazing to watch that kind of command at that age. It was spectacular.”
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The Television Hall of Famer recalled meeting the pop star before filming to Jennifer Hudson on the Thursday (May 23) episode of the latter’s talk show. “It was crazy. I was a serious nerd, so I did not know, like, who she was in terms of what her music was,” Rhimes revealed. “I just knew she was a pop star, but I didn’t know anything about her music or anything.”
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She continued, “So, our first meeting was when I went to her concert and I met her backstage. That was the first time I saw that kind of power. She would move her eyebrow and the audience would lose their minds. It was amazing to watch that kind of command at that age. It was spectacular.”
In October, the coming-of-age film returned to screens around the world for two days to celebrate Spears’ memoir, The Woman in Me. Crossroads – based on a story idea from Spears — also co-stars stars Zoe Saldaña, Taryn Manning, Kim Cattrall and Dan Aykroyd in a tale of three estranged childhood friends (Spears, Manning, Saldaña) who reunite on the night of their high school graduation to dig up their “wish box” and set off on an adventure-filled, cross-country road trip that rekindles their friendship.
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I mean it quotes as an insider saying it to a tabloid.... but we are posting as we hope its true... Team MBI always stood by Britney and we support her always... but we never supported the cash grab docs.
here is the aritcle...
Britney Spears is still fuming over the 2021 Netflix documentary Britney vs Spears, which explored her family feuds and conservatorship battle.
Three years later, the Toxic singer has decided to take a stand by denying the streaming giant to any use of her music, image, or cooperation, reported In Touch Weekly.
An insider close to the situation claimed that Britney and her team see themselves as the "good guys" and believe the documentary was "shabby and exploitative."
“Britney and her team have taken the position that Netflix did something unforgivable to her by airing and continuing to make available their documentary piece on Britney and her situation,” they said.
The singer and her team fear that the documentary “might be one of the most watched pieces of Britney-related media of the last twenty years” due to Netflix’s huge subscriber base.
“That’s not really fair to Britney on a bunch of levels and she knows it,” they continued. “To her credit, she’s putting her money where her mouth is and just refusing to do business with Netflix on any level.”
The source shared that Neflix will have to do something “huge and profound” to win back the popstar’s confidence that “they’re a firm she should be in business with, even passively.”