Britney Spears May Collaborate With Charli XCX On New Album

Fans of pop star Britney Spears are desperate for some new music, but they may be getting some sooner than they think!

There is a rumor that the "Oops!... I Did It Again" singer is hard at work on her next studio album and is already in talks with Charli XCX on a potential collaboration.

In August 2022, Britney Spears released "Hold Me Closer" with Sir Elton John. The bop marked the pop star's first song in six years and the first one released after her controversial 13-year conservatorship was struck down by a judge in November 2021.

On Friday night, sources told The Sun that Charli XCX has been asked to write for Britney's new album, although an insider clarified that the two have yet to meet in person. However, Britney has reportedly given the British pop star "pointers" for what she wants her new music to be about.

“The Britney album is being kept top secret. Work has been going on behind the scenes for quite a while to gather a series of killer songs to bring Britney back with a bang," one insider claimed. “She is known as one of the biggest pop stars of the 21st century so there is pressure for the music to be great. Charli has a great track record when it comes to writing clever pop songs."

“She went into the studio earlier in the year to make some songs using Britney’s guidance of what she is after. She came up with a really strong track that is expected to make it onto the album, which Britney’s team hopes will be out in 2024,” they added.

It is worth noting that although Charli has six Top Ten hits of her own, she has also written music for stars like Selena Gomez, Gwen Stefani, and Blondie. She also wrote the Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello collaboration "Senorita," which spent six weeks at the top of the charts when it was first released in 2019.

In October, the "Toxic" singer released her memoir "The Woman In Me," which touched on everything from her high-profile relationships to her rise to fame. She also talked about working with Sir Elton John on their collaboration, "Hold Me Closer." The hit single also became her first Top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 11 years after its release, as reported by People magazine.

"For some time I hadn’t been thinking about recording. I changed my mind about that when I got invited to record a song with an artist I’ve admired my entire life: Sir Elton John. He’s one of my all-time favorite performers," Britney wrote in her memoir. "I’d met him at an Oscars party about a decade ago and we got along so well. And now here he was reaching out with the sweetest video message, asking if I would be interested in collaborating. I was so honored."

"Like me, Elton John has been through so much, so publicly. It’s given him incredible compassion," she continued. "To make the collaboration even more meaningful: as a child, I listened to 'Tiny Dancer' in the car in Louisiana as I rode to and from my dance and gymnastics classes. … Recording 'Hold Me Closer' and putting it out into the world was a fantastic experience. It didn’t feel good. It felt great."

In an August 2022 interview with The Guardian, the “Rocket Man” singer also talked about what it was like to work with the Princess of Pop.

“I’m so excited to be able to do it with [Britney] because if it is a big hit, and I think it may be, it will give her so much more confidence than she’s got already and she will realize that people actually love her and care for her and want her to be happy,” he said at the time.

“She’s been away so long – there’s a lot of fear there because she’s been betrayed so many times and she hasn’t really been in the public eye officially for so long," he continued. "We’ve been holding her hand through the whole process, reassuring her that everything’s going to be alright.”