Britney Spears and will.i.am are back with a high-energy screed against the paparazzi
"Mind Your Business" is Britney Spears' and will.i.am's first collaboration since 2013's "Scream and Shout"
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Move aside, “Padam Padam.” Dance away, “Rush.” A new song of the summer just dropped, and—for only the second time since her conservatorship ended in 2021—it’s coming from the Queen Of Pop herself.
Britney Spears is taking her righteous anger all the way to the club in “Mind Your Business,” an intoxicating, high-energy screed against the paparazzi. It’s “Work Bitch” Britney at her best—the repetitive but hooky refrain of “mind your B” will almost definitely be stuck in heads across America after one listen, but we’re not complaining. Come on: it’s Britney, bitch!
The track also features frequent collaborator will.i.am, who has worked with the pop star before on earworms like 2013's “Scream & Shout” off the Black Eyed Peas singer’s #willpower and 2011's “Big Fat Bass.” Despite being pop royalty himself, will.i.am really just seems like he’s a huge Spears stan, which is, obviously, quite relatable.
In an interview with CBS Mornings about the track published yesterday, will.i.am reasserted the power of this relationship, saying, “I’ve been a fan, friend and supporter of Britney throughout the years… Supporter as far as a person that goes out and listens to her music, a support as far as somebody that’s there to help champion her through her times when she was fighting for her liberation. She is an amazing person.”
He continued:
Music is therapy for lots of people… Dancing is therapy for lots of people… And when you have that connection with music and rhythm and song and melody and harmony, and you express yourself through that, it helps you with anything that you’re going through, and I see that every time I see her dance on her Instagram. I light up because I see how much she loves music. To collaborate with her now and then—when you’re in the studio and you’re making music, that’s the only thing that matters—so I see the same light, the same joy, the same love and passion.
This is only the second track Spears has released since her highly-publicized conservatorship ended in 2021; the first was her 2022 collaboration with Elton John, “Hold Me Closer.” The pop princess also has a memoir, The Woman In Me, coming out October 24.
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Oh no, working class people who take pictures in public of rich people walking to and from cars. Clearly the social justice issue of our times!
‘Oh no, working class folks who handle garbage disposal in a cost-effective manner. Clearly the social justice issue of our times!’ – Milligna000 on the mafia
I am shocked–SHOCKED–to see yet another shitty take from this user.
He made basically the exact same post on one of the Harry/Meghan articles (to which I have provided basically the exact same reply).
I’m no expert, but isn’t that – and I hope I’m using the jargon correctly – a very shit song?
Why does Britney look like she did in 1998 in that photo? She doesn’t need all this photo manipulation, she literally already looks great now at 41.
Why does Will.i.am look like he’s been airbrushed on the back of someone’s hoodie at a mall kiosk?
The head is taken from a photo from 2003
Will looks cgi generated… What pop star wouldn’t do that to their photo, especially on that hasn’t beed relevant in 2 decades? That’s how she is remembered. Many would be shocked with how she looks now.Terrible song.
I can only guess that they want to remind us of the Britney that exploded onto the music scene, not the B. who was her father’s puppet and also living a scarily reclusive life.
I don’t recall where I saw it but some article on a different site was saying the promotional material for this song uses all old photos of her. They may have been trying to imply some sort of conspiracy though, some of her fans are weird. So take that with a grain of salt.
I did not like it, but it is now stuck in my head.
it’s coming from the Queen Of Pop herself.I’m sorry, no. Maybe Madonna, probably Whitney Houston, but there is no conceivable world in which Britney Spears is the Queen of Pop.
Currently it’d have to be Beyonce, right?
Typically these (meaningless) honorifics stick forever. Elvis is the King of Rock and Roll, MJ is the King of Pop, Aretha’s the Queen of Soul, etc.
I went to a conference in Indianapolis like 10 years ago, and the entertainment for the week was a stadium concert featuring . . . will.i.am DJing from a smart watch. It was a colossal failure that mostly featured him pointing at his watch and shrugging while several hundred convention-goers watched in silence.
It has an irresistable beat but it’s a bit self-defeating to keep repeating “Mind your business, bitch” because following you around is their business. They’re minding it.