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In a brand new Instagram put up, Britney Spears squashes rumors {that a} new album is on the best way, asserting she is going to ‘by no means return to the music trade.’
Britney Spears took to Instagram on Wednesday, January 3, to deal with experiences that surfaced earlier this week that she was engaged on an unannounced new album — her first in virtually ten years. However the pop star says these rumors are “trash,” declaring she is going to “by no means return to the music trade.”
Based on rumors, Spears can be working with Charli XCX and author Julia Michaels on a document, however that no new materials had been recorded for the undertaking, because it was “solely beginning to take form.”
Spears has labored with Michaels prior to now, mainly on the monitor “Slumber Get together,” on which Michaels is credited as a author, for Spears’ 2016 album, Glory. However the nature of the pair’s collaborative relationship is unknown, or whether or not they’ve labored collectively extra just lately.
“Simply so we’re clear, a lot of the information is trash! They maintain saying I’m turning to random folks to do a brand new album… I’ll by no means return to the music trade,” writes Spears within the caption of her Instagram put up. “Once I write, I write for enjoyable or I write for different folks. For these of you who’ve learn my ebook, there’s masses that you just don’t find out about me; I’ve written over 20 songs for different folks the previous two years.”
She additionally addressed rumors that her ebook, “The Lady in Me,” was launched with out her approval, saying “that’s removed from the reality.” The ebook has loved over 1.1 million copies bought in its first week throughout audiobooks, ebooks, print, and pre-sales, and was a nationwide bestseller.
“Have you ever learn the information today? I’m so beloved and blessed,” Spears concludes.
Notably, that is additionally a transparent tongue-in-cheek jab at claims that the media had “realized (its) lesson” in the best way it portrays younger feminine celebrities because the days of turning a younger Spears into a subject of scorn and mock. Britney would seemingly want that any rumors about her be taken with a grain of salt.