J Balvin 'Can't Wait' For New Music From Britney Spears

Pop star Britney Spears recently spent time with Maluma and J Balvin at Zero Bond during a trip to New York City earlier this month.

The group talked about music and her memoir, “The Woman In Me,” which was finally released on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, TMZ caught up to J Balvin  in Tarzana , asking, “I know you and Britney are friends. How proud are you of her? Revealing her truth in her new book?”

“I’m really proud of her. I think she is amazing,” he replied. “I think she deserves the best. I think she… it’s a woman that we have to have a lot of love and respect [for]. She’s fired the whole world at her peak and I can’t wait [for] her to bring new music. I think we need her so much.”

When asked what advice he would give to the pop star in handling negative commentary about her book, he replied, “I think she is super strong. I think she is. She already has a shield, you know, she knows, you know, what she’s doing and the last time I saw her, she looks like she is in a real, real good place on her mind to deal with everything.”

When asked about the “Bad Bunny” diss,  the "La Canción" singer said he’s “all about love,” adding, “I’m all about love. That’s that. I love the guy.” When asked about new projects, he said he’s working on “new music” but did not reveal any more than that.

Fans already know that the Princess of Pop was subject to a controversial conservatorship for 13 years, during which time her personal and financial affairs were largely controlled by her father, Jamie Spears. The memoir lasted from February 2008 until it was finally struck down by a judge in November 2021. Reflecting on the conservatorship, Britney wrote about how she "became a robot" in an excerpt release by People magazine a week ahead of the book release.

“I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” she wrote in her memoir. “The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.”

“This is what’s hard to explain, how quickly I could vacillate between being a little girl and being a teenager and being a woman, because of the way they had robbed me of my freedom. There was no way to behave like an adult, since they wouldn’t treat me like an adult, so I would regress and act like a little girl; but then my adult self would step back in — only my world didn’t allow me to be an adult,” she continued.

She also revealed where the title of the book came from, adding, “The woman in me was pushed down for a long time. They wanted me to be wild onstage, the way they told me to be, and to be a robot the rest of the time. I felt like I was being deprived of those good secrets of life — those fundamental supposed sins of indulgence and adventure that make us human. They wanted to take away that specialness and keep everything as rote as possible. It was death to my creativity as an artist.”

In an email interview with the magazine, Britney explained why it was so important for her to tell her story on her own terms. “Over the past 15 years or even at the start of my career, I sat back while people spoke about me and told my story for me. After getting out of my conservatorship, I was finally free to tell my story without consequences from the people in charge of my life,” she wrote.

“It is finally time for me to raise my voice and speak out. And my fans deserve to hear it directly from me. No more conspiracy, no more lies — just me owning my past, present and future," she added.

Britney Spears' memoir "The Woman In Me" was officially released on Tuesday, October 24, 2023.