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A track by pop star Britney Spears is again within the charts virtually 15 years after it was first launched, because of a fan joke about her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake’s new single.
Timberlake, 42, is making ready to launch his first studio album since 2018’s Man of the Woods. Titled Every thing I Thought It Was, the challenge was introduced together with the discharge of lead single “Egocentric” on Thursday 25 January.
Followers of Spears rapidly started discussing her personal track, additionally referred to as “Egocentric”, which featured on the deluxe model of her 2011 album Femme Fatale.
It’s now using excessive within the US iTunes charts after a Spears fan account on X/Twitter joked that she was the one releasing “Egocentric” this week.
On the time of writing, the monitor was within the high 10 on iTunes, after coming into the highest 40 on Thursday night.
In her memoir, Spears confirmed these rumours, explaining she had kissed her choreographer Wade Robson, however that Timberlake had been untrue to her first.
The fan behind the X account stated it “began as a joke” when Timberlake introduced his track: “Then all of us joined in, saying that Britney Spears was coming again with a ‘model’ new track,” BritneyxYtube informed Leisure Weekly.
“I nonetheless can’t consider that it turned so large, and we see the outcomes we see now.”
They added: “We’re all so pleased to see her track make a comeback in any case these years!”
Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears, pictured whereas they had been relationship in 2002
(Getty Pictures)
Timberlake got here below renewed scrutiny after Spears was free of her conservatorship and launched a memoir, through which she shared particulars of their three-year relationship that led to 2002.
In The Girl in Me, Spears alleged that the media portrayed her as “a harlot who’d damaged the center of America’s golden boy”, when she was in truth left “comatose in Louisiana” whereas Timberlake was “fortunately working round Hollywood”.
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Timberlake launched “Cry Me a River” the identical yr they break up up, with the track’s music video – which featured a blonde lady – fuelled rumours that Spears had been untrue throughout their relationship.
Timberlake apologised to Spears in 2021, following the discharge of the New York Instances’s Framing Britney Spears documentary.
“I’m deeply sorry for the occasions in my life the place my actions contributed to the issue, the place I spoke out of flip, or didn’t communicate up for what was proper,” he wrote partially in an Instagram submit on Friday. “I perceive that I fell brief in these moments and in lots of others and benefited from a system that condones misogyny and racism.”
Spears lately debunked rumours that she was planning to come back again to the music business, as a substitute declaring that she would “by no means return”.
