Britney Spears is capturing down rumours of a model new album, vowing to “by no means return to the music business”.
On the equivalent time, Spears well-known in Wednesday’s Instagram put up, she’s nonetheless writing music – just for completely different people.
“Once I write, I write for enjoyable or I write for different individuals!!!” she wrote. “I’ve written over 20 songs for different individuals the previous two years!!! I’m a ghostwriter and I truthfully get pleasure from it that method!!!”
The Instagram caption, via which she blasted those who “maintain saying I’m turning to random individuals to do a brand new album”, was paired with {a photograph} of a Guido Reni painting of Salome holding the prime of John the Baptist.
This just isn’t the main time Spears has indicated she’s retiring from releasing her private music. In July 2021, whereas nonetheless beneath the infamous conservatorship that managed her life, money and voice for nearly 14 years, her longtime supervisor Larry Rudolph resigned, saying she had no intention of resuming her occupation. Simply after being launched from the conservatorship later that yr, she took to Instagram to say she was fearful of the music enterprise and that not doing her private music was an act of defiance in direction of her family.
However the subsequent yr, she launched the solely Maintain Me Nearer, a collaboration with Elton John that spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart, peaking at No 6. Final yr’s Thoughts Your Enterprise, a single with will.i.am, was poorly reviewed and did not make the Scorching 100, though. Spears’ last full album was 2016’s Glory.
In Wednesday’s put up, Spears moreover wrote that it was “removed from the reality” that her 2023 bestselling memoir, The Woman In Me, was launched with out her approval.