Britney Spears returns to music with ‘Hold Me Closer,’ dance mix with Elton John – National

Britney Spears and Elton John are the duo we didn’t know we wanted.

Fans of each artists had cause to rejoice on Friday when the pair’s lengthy-awaited, collaborative single Hold Me Closer was lastly launched.

The upbeat dance-pop observe is a rework of John’s current hit, Tiny Dancer, with components of his different fashionable songs, The One and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, additionally featured. Spears’ vocals work in tandem with John’s to convey the membership-prepared observe to life.

Hold Me Closer is the primary observe launched by Spears, 40, because the finish of her 13-yr conservatorship in November 2021.

While John, 75, has been releasing new music up to now few years — together with the 16-observe 2021 album The Lockdown Sessions — the tune is Spears’ first piece of latest music since her 2016 album Glory.

Before the tune’s launch Friday, John playfully teased the collaboration at a Cannes restaurant throughout an Instagram Live stream. He re-uploaded the clip to his Instagram account on Wednesday, the place the Rocket Man singer approached a DJ sales space to introduce the tune. John sang alongside to the observe as restaurant patrons cheered enthusiastically.

Afterward, Spears tweeted concerning the new observe, writing in an emoji-crammed put up that it was “damn cool that I’m singing with one of the most classic men of our time.”

“I’m kinda overwhelmed… it’s a big deal to me !!!” she continued. “I’m meditating more and learning my space is valuable and precious !!!”

She continued in a Twitter thread, writing that she is “learning everyday is a clean slate to try and be a better person and do what makes me happy.”

“I want to be fearless like when I was younger and not be so scared and fearful,” she concluded. “I pray there actually is truth to the Holy Spirit and I hope that spirit is with my children as well !!! Yes … I choose happiness and joy today !!!”

The observe is produced by Andrew Watt, who has labored with such acts as Ed Sheeran, Eddie Vedder, Ozzy Osbourne, Justin Bieber, Post Malone and Miley Cyrus.

The observe calls to thoughts final yr’s hit Cold Heart (PNAU Remix), which melded John’s songs Kiss the Bride, Rocket Man, Where’s the Shoorah? and Sacrifice right into a dance bop that includes vocals by Dua Lipa.

John and Spears first met in 2014 at an Oscar viewing get together and she or he later tweeted her love of Tiny Dancer, sowing the seeds for the most recent collaboration. John is within the midst of his self-proclaimed ultimate tour, the Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour.

— With recordsdata from Reuters 

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