Nobody could dispute that removing the conservatorship was the right thing to happen.

The main context in which we’ve heard about Spears in the last few years is, of course, her conservatorship under her father, and the legal battle to have it removed following the fan campaign #FreeBritney (she was ultimately successful in November 2021).īut even since she has been “free”, there has been a tension: how can Spears’s fandom and icon status be maintained without simply perpetuating the cycles of overexposure – by the media as well as her industry – that led to so much harm? While many fans are happy to have her back, hearing her voice – and after so long – also brings up mixed feelings. Today, we can hear her again on “Mind Your Business”, a generic, grating track by the producer and Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am (which leaked on social media earlier this week).

Then, last year, she featured on “Hold Me Closer” with Elton John – again, a track from a reissued album, this time John’s collaboration record The Lockdown Sessions (originally released in 2021). The first two were additional album tracks for Glory’s reissue in 2020 – one with the Backstreet Boys, and one solo (she did not have a writing credit on either). In the past seven years, since her ninth studio album Glory in 2016, Britney Spears has released only four songs. Many Britney Spears fans will be happy to have her back (Photo: Michelangelo Di Battista/Sony/RCA via Getty)

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