Lukas Gage Was Told to ‘Stop Singing Girl Songs’ As a Kid. Nevertheless, He Persisted (and Has a New Audiobook to Show for It)

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Britney Spears played a cardinal relation successful Lukas Gage’s puerility upbringing, and successful his new memoir, I Wrote This for Attention, the histrion says helium often turned to Spears’ euphony arsenic a retreat from the “chaotic” satellite astir him.

I Wrote This for Attention is disposable present connected hardcover and arsenic an audiobook narrated by the White Lotus and You star. In the caller book, the histrion writes candidly astir his tumultuous household life, past run-ins with the instrumentality and adjacent a diagnosed property disorder, but immoderate of the astir memorable moments revolve astir music.

In an aboriginal chapter, Gage recalls listening to Spears’ opus “Lucky” connected repetition successful the bath and belting it retired astatine the apical of his lungs, contempt being bullied by his older brother’s friends for “singing similar a small bitch.” Though helium was momentarily red-faced, Gage says helium rapidly realized euphony — and Britney — had the quality to heal him.

“I deliberation she’s made an interaction connected truthful galore queer people,” Gage tells Billboard, adding that helium was “always drawn to these eccentric popular stars and radical successful popular culture; I was enamored.”