{"id":879856,"date":"2026-10-12T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879856\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:36:10","slug":"britney-spears-drops-unreleased-justin-timberlake-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879856\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears Drops Unreleased Justin Timberlake Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBritney Spears<\/a> has posted a previously unreleased collaboration with Justin Timberlake titled \u201cShe\u2019ll Never Be Me,\u201d originally recorded for her 2001 album \u201cBritney,\u201d as a preview of the album\u2019s 25 th anniversary edition, out on Nov. 6. Spears and Timberlake, who were dating at the time, were joined by songwriters and producers Bradley Daymond and Alex Greggs, longtime \u2018NSYNC collaborators who work under the name Riprock \u2018n\u2019 Alex G.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe song was released in an unusually low-key fashion, without a notice on her website or social media accounts beyond a reel on her Facebook page<\/a>, or a press release from her longtime label, RCA. This may be a reflection of the fact that Spears essentially announced her retirement<\/a> in 2024. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Facebook post notes that \u201cShe\u2019ll Never Be Me\u201d is one of five previously unreleased tracks on the anniversary edition, which also include \u201cAm I a Sinner,\u201d \u201cWhen I Say So,\u201d \u201cMy Big Secret\u201d and a full version of \u201cRight Now (Taste the Victory),\u201d which was used in a 2002 Pepsi commercial.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the songs are over 25 years old, they represent the first new recordings released by Spears since her 2023 collaboration with Will.I.Am, \u201cMind Your Business\u201d (which was assembled from older recordings).<\/p>\n

\n\tSpears said in 2024 that she will \u201cnever return to the music industry\u201d and in January said that she will never perform in the U.S. again. The singer was released from a 13-year conservatorship in 2021, regaining full control over her personal life and finances. She has largely kept a low public profile since then, although she occasionally statements and videos of herself dancing that have made some observers concerned about her wellbeing.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn May, Spears pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge <\/a>of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and avoided jail time. Spears was initially arrested on March 4 in Ventura County, California. The California Highway Patrol made the arrest around 9:30 p.m. and she was booked early the next morning around 3 a.m. Five weeks after her arrest, Spears voluntarily checked into a treatment center but checked out of the facility last week, just days before her arraignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britney Spears has posted a previously unreleased collaboration with Justin Timberlake titled \u201cShe\u2019ll Never Be Me,\u201d originally recorded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[9645,236,88],"class_list":["post-879856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-britney-spears","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}