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Britney Spears started her music comeback on August 26 with assist from a fellow residing legend. Britney, 40, joined Elton John for “Maintain Me Nearer,” the lengthy rumored remix of his 1971 hit, “Tiny Dancer,” and followers went wild when it dropped at midnight. This new model was every part they anticipated and extra, with an infectious techno infused beat and Britney’s signature warble all through.
“Noticed you dancing out the ocean/Working quick alongside the sand/A spirit born of earth and water/Hearth flying out of your palms,” the pair sing in unison off the highest. In direction of the top of the observe, Britney belts out “Maintain me nearer,” proving she’s nonetheless obtained these iconic vocals.
“Maintain Me Nearer” marks Britney’s first new music since December 2020, when she teamed together with her fellow ‘90s icons, Backstreet Boys, for the track “Matches.” The track coincided with the re-release of her 2016 album, Glory (which included “Temper Ring” and “Swimming within the Stars,” one track that was unreleased from the Glory recording periods and one track initially put out as a bonus observe on the Japanese model.) Past that, Britney’s music profession has been quiet since Glory, a problem she introduced up across the finish her 13-year conservatorship.
“I wished to be good however what they did to my coronary heart was unforgivable!” Spears wrote in a December 2021 Instagram submit. “I requested for 13 years to carry out new songs and remixes of my previous songs. … I had two months off in between every present settings for 4 years in Vegas. … and each time I requested, I used to be advised, ‘No’! It was a setup to make me fail, but I knew precisely what I wished my followers to see.” Britney additionally write that it didn’t make sense how “community tv exhibits are showcasing my music with remixes…but the one who owns the music is advised No!!!! They even gave remixes to my sister [Jamie Lynn Spears] however why was I all the time advised no?”
“A lot wasted time to solely embarrass me and humiliate me and I assume it appears odd to most now why I don’t even do my music anymore,” she added. “Not doing my music anymore is my approach of claiming ‘F-ck You,’ in a way when it solely truly advantages my household by ignoring my actual work.”
Britney’s conservatorship resulted in November 2021, two months after she formally filed a request to “instantly terminate” the 13-year authorized association that stripped away her autonomy. “I’ve an IUD in my physique proper now that received’t let me have a child, and my conservators received’t let me go to the physician to take it out,” Britney stated in one of many two hearings the place she testified towards the circumstances of her conservatorship. “All I would like is to personal my cash… and for this to finish… and for my [then-boyfriend, now husband Sam Asghari] to have the ability to f-cking drive me in his automobile. And actually…. I would like to have the ability to sue my household,” she additionally stated. “I actually consider this conservatorship is abusive.”
