Overdue Duet

The following italicized article is from www.nypost.com:

THE long-awaited duet between Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake may finally be recorded. Spies said Spears will team up with her ex-love for a song on her next album due at the end of the year. The two were supposed to team up for her last album, but Spears - under the influence of friends including Osama Lutfi and Adnan Ghalib - missed her recording session with Timbaland at the legendary producer's Virginia Beach studio last August. "She just didn't show up," our spies said at the time.

Source: NY Post

Timbaland Not Producing For Upcoming Album

A lot can happen in 5 days. Since Taio Cruz made his statement about who was working with Britney Spears on her new album, Kanye West has denied the collaboration and we can now also confirm that Timbaland not be working with Spears either.

So who got it wrong Cruz or the media? But at this point who cares.

Source: The Thomas Crown Chronicles

I'll Make Brit A Hit

The following italicized article is from www.sundaymail.co.uk:

BRITNEY SPEARS will be the biggest star in the world next year - according to the man who is penning songs for her new album.

British producer, songwriter and chart star Taio Cruz, 23, is working on songs for the fallen idol.

Taio believes Britney will once again conquer the world - and that she was forced into recording her last album too soon.

He told Email: "I have been writing and producing tracks for the new Britney record but as always with her, I'm not allowed to talk about the sound.

"Her career is riding on this record so I need to sit down and talk to her to make sure she is ready.

"The songs will be good - she has Kanye, Pharrell, Timbaland and me doing tracks for her.

"It is more a matter of whether she is mentally and physically ready for this. On the last album, Blackout, she was tired and people were forcing her to put another album out.

"If she is ready it will be huge - she just came with Blackout too early."

Taio notched up a hit album with his debut Departure this year and shot to superstar status as a songwriter and producer.

He said: "I am working with Shayne Ward, Leona Lewis, The Sugababes, Britney, Justin,
Anastasia...quite a few really. I have no idea when I'll have time to work on my own stuff.

"I can't do anything too out there or it will scare people off. I am only starting my second album - Justin Timberlake did five before he started doing what he wanted. Britney did loads of pop before she started doing cool stuff."

Taio loves working with Timberlake.

"He likes to do what people won't expect so the two of us listen to sounds from all over the world.
"We have a few ideas. It could even be bagpipes - I used them in a track ages ago, a nice sample over an R&B beat.

They could pop up on a Britney or Justin album."

Taio plays Glasgow's ABC 2 on August 13 and his new single She's Like A Star is out on August 18.

Source: Sunday Mail

Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears reunited!

The following italicized article is from www.nowmagazine.co.uk:

Britney and Justin are rekindling their relationship for the best comeback ever...

Ex-lovers Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake are reuniting after 6 years and three weeks apart. (Yes, we've been counting!)

The pair have hardly said a word to each other since their acrimonious split in 2002. But Justin, 27, and his producer Timbaland approached Britney's dad Jamie last month about a collaboration on a funky hip-hop single to be released later this year.

Timbaland, 27, tried in March last year for a reunion, but the mum-of-two, 26, was so off the rails that she snubbed the approach.

'She has to have a team. She needs to come back with Justin doing records,' he said later. 'Instead, she got big-headed and was like: “Screw you, screw you, I don't need nobody.”'

But Timbaland's now willing to forgive and forget. If all goes well, he'll start work on the backing track within weeks while Justin and Britney spend time together writing the lyrics.

'Justin wants to help Britney and this is his way of proving to everyone – including her family, who he was always very close to – that he cares,' a family friend tells Now.

Britney's affairs are being controlled by her dad, who's signed up her ex-manager Larry Rudolph to oversee her career – and he's just as keen to see the reunion happen. The only sticking point is keeping Britney on the straight and narrow for long enough – she's still harbouring a lot of anger about Justin releasing Cry Me A River, which is widely assumed to be about her cheating on him.

Source: Now Magazine