Prince and Princess of Pop? Elton John, Britney Spears to record duet

Prince and Princess of Pop? Elton John, Britney Spears to record duetIt's official! Elton John and Britney Spears is set to collaborate on a new track, titled Hold Me Closer'.

by AFP

09-08-2022 20:20

in Music

In this file photo, Britney Spears and Sir Elton John attend the 21st Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party at West Hollywood Park on 24 February 2013 in West Hollywood, California. Image: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for EJAF/AFP

Princess of pop Britney Spears will join forces with music maestro Elton John on a new single, the record company releasing the track said on Monday 8 August.

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The pair who between them have 90 years' experience in the music business will collaborate on Hold Me Closer, Interscope Records said.

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-- Elton John duet a musical comeback for Britney Spears There were no further details, including when the track would be released, but it will be the first new music from Spears since the middle of the last decade.

The title of the song comes from the lyrics of the early 1970s hit Tiny Dancer, which John co-wrote with long-time creative partner Bernie Taupin.

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The news comes after days of online speculation from fans that the pair would be teaming up.

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Miscarriage, legal battle It also comes just weeks after Spears announced a long-wished-for pregnancy had ended in a miscarriage.

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The pregnancy, with Sam Asghari, came five months after a Los Angeles judge dissolved a conservatorship overseen by Spears's father an arrangement the singer said had prevented her from having a contraceptive IUD removed despite her desire for more kids.

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Aside from her very public legal battle with her father, the Baby One More Time singer has mostly only been seen on her social media account in recent years.

Supporters of the #FreeBritney movement rally in support of musician Britney Spears for a conservatorship court hearing, outside the Stanley Mosk courthouse in Los Angeles, California on 12 November 2021. A Los Angeles judge formally approved the process of ending the controversial guardianship that has controlled pop star Britney Spears' life for the past 13 years. Image: Patrick T Fallon / AFP She has not given an interview in years, rarely makes public appearances and last performed in October 2018.

Britney Spears: From child star to abrupt end to career The superstar, who first came to public attention as a child in 1992, dropped four studio albums under the conservatorship, most recently 2016's Glory.

She also was among the singers to stage wildly lucrative Las Vegas residencies in recent years. Her four-year Britney: Pieces of Me run grossed a reported $138 million.

But in January 2019, she abruptly canceled her planned return to Vegas, going on indefinite professional hiatus.

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Elton John the Rocket Man' The multi-award-winning John properly Sir Elton John is one of Britain's most bankable stars, whose showmanship and musicality have left their mark on the performing arts.

Since he first emerged in 1962, the singer born Reginald Dwight has been responsible for some of the most recognizable tunes in pop, including Rocket Man, Your Song and I'm Still Standing.

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