(Los Angeles) Pop icon Britney Spears and British superstar Elton John will unite their voices in a new song, the record label that will distribute it announced on Monday.
Posted at 5:44 p.m.
The singers – who together have 90 years of experience in the music industry – will collaborate to Hold Me Closer, according to Interscope Records.
While its release date remains unknown, it will be Britney Spears’ first new title in years.
Its title is inspired by the lyrics of the song Tiny Dancerreleased by Elton John in the early 1970s.
The announcement comes after days of speculation about a possible collaboration between the two stars.
Britney Spears and her boyfriend Sam Asghari recently announced that the singer had a miscarriage.
Her pregnancy was made public five months after the announcement in a California court of the end of the controversial guardianship exercised mainly by her father, Jamie Spears.
The measure was decided in 2008 because of psychological disorders of the star, who called her “abusive” and which, according to her, prevented her from removing her contraceptive IUD despite her desire to have more children .
The pop star, revealed by several planetary successes including …Baby One More Timehasn’t given an interview in years and rarely appears publicly.
Elton John, who turned 75 a few months ago, is best known for his hit Rocket Man.
In 2018, he embarked on a farewell tour of XXL proportions. Spread over several years, it planned more than 300 dates around the world before being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.