It's a big party in the world of pop: Britney Spears has made her official return to music for the first time since her release from the legal guardianship that kept her under the yoke of her father's will for 13 years.
Another artist, one of the most iconic of all time, Eton John, baptized the return of the singer in the recording room: the duet "Hold Me Closer", recorded in semi-secrecy in the Beverly Hills studio of producer Andrew Watts in July, it was released today to critical applause and promises to become one of the summer hits.
The song is available worldwide on all streaming platforms.
Britney recorded the part of her, surrounded by candles, colored lights and her new husband Sam Asghari, six years after her latest album, "Glory",
and nine months after Los Angeles judge Brenda Penny sentenced her release last November.
The single mixes the song "Tiny Dancer" from 1971, the one that perhaps best defines Elton's career, with "The One" from 1992 "The One and a touch of" Don't Go Breaking My Heart from 1976. The duet is the second after what John recorded last year with Dua Lipa combining "Rocket man", "Sacrifice", "Kiss the Bride" and "Where's the Shoora?", thanks to which Elton became the first artist solo to enter with a single in the British top ten for six consecutive decades: "I want to do one a year", the singer told the "Guardian" who interviewed him today.
The seeds of collaboration with.
Spears date back to 2014, when Elton and Britney first met at the 22nd Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party.
A subsequent 2015 tweet from Britney Spears professing her love for "Tiny Dancer" fueled the plan, and the stars finally aligned this summer.
"It was David's idea," Elton told The Guardian, alluding to her husband David Furnish: "She said, wouldn't it be great if Britney was the guest vocalist on the" Tiny Dancer remix? " Hold Me Closer "suggests that Britney, after the vicissitudes of recent years, the loss of a child in May to a miscarriage and the marriage in June in Los Angeles is finally ready to get back on the game after announcing in January 2019" a indefinite break "in his career.
"It's hard when you're young. Something about Britney broke. I broke too, but then I quit drinking," 75-year-old Elton told The Guardian. . Now that I have touched a drop of alcohol for 32 years, I have never been better and I like to help other artists who, like me, have been through hardships. "
