Bobby Brown isn’t a fan of Britney Spears‘ rendition of his hit song “My Prerogative.”
During a recent appearance on Club Shay Shay with Shannon Sharpe, Brown addressed whether he asks to hear an artist’s rendition of a song they want to sample or cover before giving his blessing. “Yes, I gotta hear it,” he said without hesitation. “Because you don’t know what these kids will say these days. These kids will say some sh– that you don’t want your song associated with.”
Sharpe then asked him if there was an instance where he enjoyed one of those songs, but the legendary singer couldn’t think of one, saying, “I don’t think they really did justice to any of the samples that they have done to my songs,” before admitting that he hated Britney’s remake of “My Prerogative,” from Brown’s genre-defining album Don’t Be Cruel back in 1988.
“Britney Spears butchered ‘Prerogative,’” Brown told Shannon. “Teddy Riley produced it, but that was a butchering that I couldn’t take it. I cleared it only because it was Britney Spears and I was thinking… Teddy Riley is doing it too, so you know, but I felt it was a butchering.”
Spears released her version in 2004 as one of three new songs on her compilation album Greatest Hits: My Prerogative. Someone should tell Bobby that Swedish production duo Bloodshy & Avant handled production on her version, and not the song’s original producer Teddy Riley.
You can watch the full conversation below.
