Kevin Federline is not having a good week. Amid reports that ticket sales for his concert tour are so low that Chicago's House of Blues gave them away for free (fans paid only a service fee of $2.25), Kevin's debut album is also tanking.
Playing With Fire, which sold a disappointing 6,000 copies in its first week, only reached #151 on the Billboard album chart. To top it all off, Federline's wife, pop supernova Britney Spears, filed for divorce on Tuesday, November 7, citing irreconcilable differences and marking the end of their two-year marriage, which produced two kids, Sean Preston, 1, and Jayden James, two months. And it doesn't look to be a friendly parting of ways.
A representative for Federline's lawyer tells TeenPeople.com that his is a response "to the petition hurriedly filed by Britney Spears yesterday November 7 , which may have been a preemptive strike in anticipation by her of the filing of a petition by Kevin seeking sole custody of the children." Says the lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, "Kevin is prepared to go the distance in order to do what he feels is necessary to protect and safe guard the children and will not be intimidated or dissuaded from pursuit of those goals.
" Rewind to November 3: it's a Friday evening and Federline is sitting on a couch inside a dimly lit Manhattan hotel suite. There's a sign on the door that says "Non-Smoking," but Federline is puffing away on a cigarette when we walk in. He stands and says hello with a handshake before slouching back down into a chair for our interview.
He looks weary -- not because he's been pummeled with a deluge of bad news yet, but because he's been tirelessly promoting his album. "I'm out to really change a few opinions," he says, despite the song "America's Most Hated," in which he seems to roll around in his tabloid-fueled reputation as a big-spending freeloader. It's only one of the several catchy songs on an album that isn't nearly as bad as one might expect from the backup dancer-turned "Mr.
Britney Spears"-turned rapper. In fact, while lyrics like "Dudes hate K-Fed / girls love K-Fed / it don't matter to me / 'cause K-Fed stay fed" may be insipid, records like the West Coast-flavored "Privilege" and the bumping and boastful "Dance With a Pimp" are solid tracks. But like tabloids and late night comics, music reviewers haven't been kind to Federline, so we wanted to get K-Fed's thoughts on the bad rap: TeenPeople.
com: So why did you want to get into the music business in the first place?
Kevin Federline: My career as a dancer was pretty much at a close. And that was even before me and Britney got married.
I've done so much. Like after I danced for Michael Jackson , it's like, where do I go from here? I've been wanting to do the music thing for so long -- I had to do it.
I had to give it a shot, and I wound up falling in love with it. It's something that I'll always do no matter what, no matter how much people buy into it. It's a hidden passion that's been there.
TeenPeople.com: You've had a lot of people criticize your work and what you're trying to do. Were you expecting that?
KF: Of course. And that's a big reason why I came out talking trash on the media and all kinds of stuff like that. TeenPeople.
com: Well, there are some lyrics that I wanted to ask you about. You call yourself the 'pancake man' and you rap, 'Come and dance with the Bisquick.' What does that mean?
KF: I'm going stay away from that. That's one for the books. I've got children.
I'm gonna come out and talk about it one time, I'm gonna tell everyone about it one time and from there, we'll see what happens. TeenPeople.
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