Bobby Brown is sharing his real thoughts on Britney Spears remaking his biggest hit.
The Grammy Award-winning R&B star revealed on April 16 that he didn’t care for the pop sensation’s cover of his 1988 song My Prerogative.
During an interview on the Club Shay Shay podcast, host Shannon Sharpe asked Brown about which artiste he thought did the best job sampling his music.
“I don’t think they really did justice to any of the samples. Like, Britney Spears butchered My Prerogative,” he said of her 2004 cover. “Teddy Riley produced it. But that was a butchering. I couldn’t take it.”
The 56-year-old admitted he was initially on board with the idea of the Toxic singer covering the song because he thought she would “wow” him. But she didn’t, he said, causing him to be wary of giving new artistes his blessing for redoing his songs.
Brown co-wrote My Prerogative, which became the biggest single from this sophomore album, Don’t Be Cruel. The track reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Spears released her version of the song as a bonus track on her first greatest hits album. Despite Brown’s reaction to the cover, the update became an international hit. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
