Maintain me closer, Britney Spears?
Some six a long time soon after she final released recently recorded music, Spears is back in the studio recording music with Elton John, according to experiences in Page 6 and TMZ — and it will be a model-new recording of John’s 1971 music, “Tiny Dancer,” which took on a new life soon after it was featured in Cameron Crowe’s 2000 film, “Almost Well-known.”
In accordance to the studies, Spears achieved with John final week in a Beverly Hills recording studio for a new version of the song, in accordance to Page 6, and suggests the track is established to be produced by Common New music up coming thirty day period. Grammy-winning producer Andrew Watt, who has worked with all people from Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber to Pearl Jam and Ozzy Osbourne, is described to be overseeing the session.
Elton has seen big achievements this yr with re-recorded duets of his earlier hits: He and Dua Lipa scored a strike with “Cold, Cold Coronary heart,” a mashup of his hits “Rocket Man” and “Sacrifice” that has featured in both of those of their concert events, with video footage of the other — on one particular evening throughout the spring, she carried out it at Madison Square Garden even though he carried out it just a several miles away, throughout the East River at Brooklyn’s Barclays Arena.
Spears’ attorney, reps for John and both artists’ labels did not quickly reply to Wide variety‘s requests for comment.
The collaboration would mark Spears’ initially return to earning music given that her conservatorship was terminated in November 2021.
Spears was underneath a conservatorship for more than 13 many years. After her bombshell testimony past summer time, she retained her have attorney, Mathew Rosengart, who aided her get out of the legal arrangement inside the make any difference of months. Initial, her father, Jamie Spears, who oversaw her conservatorship, was suspended by the courtroom in September 2021. And then, her conservatorship was terminated entirely in November. On the other hand, the legal fight remains messy with Spears battling versus her father and former business enterprise supervisor, Tri Star Athletics & Amusement, about her funds and allegations of abusive actions all through the conservatorship. (The subsequent listening to in the situation is this Wednesday.)
Though she was underneath her conservatorship from 2008 by 2021, Spears recorded new audio, went on tour and held a Las Vegas residency. Nonetheless, when she testified in court docket, the singer mentioned she was compelled to get the job done versus her own will. Typically, conservatees are not able to work, so Spears’ situation was highly unconventional. And her attorney has stated that her father reaped hundreds of thousands from her challenging-earned get the job done during the 13 several years, when she mentioned she did not want to go on tour.
The information of Spears’ collaboration with John will surely occur as a welcome shock to Spears’ hundreds of thousands of fans around the entire world. Ever given that her newfound independence, Spears followers have been wanting to know if she’d want to get again in the studio and return to the phase — but initial and foremost, the #FreeBritney motion has stood guiding the star’s selection to stay her individual existence even so she chooses, new new music or not. This summer season, Spears married her longtime boyfriend, actor Sam Asghari, and has expressed her want to have a family with him.
Spears often dances and sings on her Instagram where by she consistently interacts with her admirers, and previously this thirty day period, she created headlines when she belted out a impressive a capella rendition of her mega-hit “Baby A person Extra Time.”