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  • Britney Spears Vows to “Never Return to the Music Industry”

    Britney Spears Vows to “Never Return to the Music Industry”

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    Being a fan of Britney Spears has always been full of twists and turns, a rollercoaster of “what’s going on?” set to catchy tunes. While it’s a perpetual mystery what she’ll get up to next, Spears herself has confirmed one thing she won’t be doing, via an Instagram caption Wednesday evening: Recording a comeback album.

    “Just so we’re clear most of the news is trash !!! They keep saying I’m turning to random people to do a new album … I will never return to the music industry !!!” she wrote alongside a portion of Guido Reni’s 17th-century painting Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist), depicting a woman holding a platter with the decapitated head of John the Baptist. Vivid!

    Spears’ adamant statement comes on the heels of reports, attributed to “unnamed sources,” that musical heavy hitters like Charli XCX and Julia Michaels had been recruited to collaborate with Spears on a comeback album. The singer’s most recent full-length studio album, Glory, was released in 2016.

    In her recently released memoir, The Woman In Me, the audiobook of which was narrated by Michelle Williams, Spears discussed the trauma of her legal conservatorship from 2008 to 2021 and being forced to perform onstage, whether she wanted to or not. Her relationship with music, and to sharing it with the world, was altered.

    “Pushing forward in my music career is not my focus at the moment,” she wrote in the memoir. She called recording the single “Hold Me Closer” with Elton John a “fantastic experience” and said that it “didn’t feel good—it felt great.” In a post days after the memoir’s release, Spears shared that she’d written a new song, evidently titled “Hate You to Like Me,” though no recording or lyrics have yet surfaced. (She shared the news with a photo of herself “giving ego with my eyes closed because I hear important people do that these days.”)

    “It’s time for me not to be someone who other people want; it’s time to actually find myself,” she wrote in her memoir.

    Spears, in her latest missive, claims to be living and loving the ghostwriter life for other artists.

    “When I write, I write for fun or I write for other people !!!” her caption continued. “For those of you who have read my book, there’s loads that you don’t know about me … I’ve written over 20 songs for other people the past two years !!! I’m a ghostwriter and I honestly enjoy it that way !!!”

    An unnamed source “close to Spears’ project-in-the-works” told Rolling Stone, however, that executives had in fact brought on Charli XCX and other talent in hopes of tempting Spears back into the recording studio.

    “Right now, management and A&R are trying to get her excited for the music,” the source said. “As of right now, she’s not actively in recording but they’re getting [songs] done to present to her.”

    “Nothing is cemented or in stone,” the source continued. “The hype around this is that everyone wants her to make music again, but I don’t know if she’s there yet.”

    Representatives for Britney Spears did not immediately return a request for comment.

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  • Mother! Michaela Coel and Anne Hathaway to Star in “Mother Mary”

    Mother! Michaela Coel and Anne Hathaway to Star in “Mother Mary”

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    There are some things you know instinctively: when to avoid an empty subway car, when to cut a toxic person right out of your life, and when you’ve decided to adopt a movie as your entire personality before you’ve even seen it.

    The latter, I sensed about Tar. I know it about the forthcoming Barbie film. And now, I’m sure about the recently announced film, Mother Mary, starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel.

    A24’s upcoming feature film was just announced and they’re not sharing very much. But what they have revealed has us on the edge of our seats yearning for a film that hasn’t even started shooting yet. Picture me – like Nicole Kidman in that AMC ad — staring at the screen in awe, practically drooling. I don’t know what awaits me, but I’m certain it will change me.

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    Here’s what we know so far:

    The plot: The film has been described as “an epic pop melodrama following a fictional musician (Hathaway) and her relationship with an iconic fashion designer (Coel).” I have no clue what this could mean but I’m already on my knees, begging for more. Will it be a fun, lighthearted blockbuster like the underrated Tracee Ellis Ross x Dakota Johnson feature, The High Note (2020)? Or will it be a tortured portrait of an artist and their muse? Most importantly … will it be sapphic? These are the questions, people!

    The screenplay was written by David Lowery, director and frequent A24 collaborator behind The Green Knight and A Ghost Story. He also recently wrote and directed Disney+’s forthcoming Peter Pan & Wendy. His repertoire’s mixed bag makes me curious about the tone of Mother Mary, and what will come of this high-budget experiment.

    The music: As an “epic pop melodrama,” it seems obvious that the music of the film will be critical. Which explains why Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX — two of the hottest names in pop music — have been tapped to pen its pop hits. I see Oscar noms for Best Original Song in their future.

    Rightfully so, the internet is freaking out. A cry of “mother!” was heard around the world when this announcement dropped. I mean, the word “mother” is literally in the title.

    I, for one, am so excited to see both Coel and Hathaway return to campy, energetic roles — this after being immersed in dramatic films for the past few years.

    Hathaway was most recently in Eileen, a psychological thriller based on Ottessa Mosfegh’s novel of the same title. And then there’s Mother’s Instinct alongside Jessica Chastain and The Idea of You on Amazon.

    Coel is best known for her intense drama — I May Destroy You — as well as her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. But I adored Coel singing and dancing in the British indie film Been So Long — so I hope we get to hear her voice in this film, too.

    Whatever they give us, I’ll eat it up. Mother Mary is slated to begin filming in Germany this year — and it can’t come soon enough.

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