Britney Spears is capturing down rumors of a brand new album, vowing to “never return to the music industry.”
On the identical time, Spears famous in Wednesday’s Instagram post, she’s nonetheless writing music — only for different folks.
“When I write, I write for fun or I write for other people !!!” she wrote. “I’ve written over 20 songs for other people the past two years !!! I’m a ghostwriter and I honestly enjoy it that way !!!”
The Instagram caption, through which she blasted those that “keep saying I’m turning to random people to do a new album,” was paired with a photograph of a Guido Reni portray of Salome holding the pinnacle of John the Baptist.
This isn’t the primary time Spears has indicated she’s retiring from releasing her personal music. In July 2021, whereas nonetheless below the notorious conservatorship that managed her life, cash and voice for practically 14 years, her longtime manager Larry Rudolph resigned, saying she had no intention of resuming her profession. Simply after being released from the conservatorship later that 12 months, she took to Instagram to say she was petrified of the music enterprise and that not doing her personal music was an act of defiance in opposition to her household.
However the subsequent 12 months, she launched the single “Hold Me Closer,” a collaboration with Elton John that spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart, peaking at No. 6. Final 12 months’s “Mind Your Business,” a single with will.i.am, was poorly reviewed and did not make the Scorching 100, although. Spears’ final full album was 2016’s “Glory.”
In Wednesday’s publish, Spears additionally wrote that it was “far from the truth” that her 2023 bestselling memoir, “The Woman In Me,” was launched with out her approval.
