Sophia Michaels
Britney Spears has a new song coming out with rapper and producer Will.i.am On July 17, the former Black Eyed Peas member shared a snippet of the track, titled “Mind Your Business,” on Instagram, captioning it, “Uh oh!!! This summer is about to be hot!!!” In the clip, Will.i.am uses a cut of the duo’s 2012 collab “Scream & Shout” to announce their forthcoming song: “You are now, now rockin’ with Will.i.am and Britney, b*tch.” Spears chimes in at the end and adds, “Mind your business, b*tch!” The song is set to release on July 21.
The new song is Spears’s first release since she and Elton John debuted “Hold Me Closer” in August 2022. That track is a remix of his seminal 1971 hit “Tiny Dancer.” John similarly collaborated with Dua Lipa on 2021’s “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” which draws strongly from his 1972 song “Rocket Man.”
Spears and Will.i.am’s first collab, “Scream & Shout,” previously hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs charts. Surely, the duo are hoping they have another hit on their hands with “Mind Your Business.”
The new song is the second that Spears will release since her conservatorship ended in late 2021. Following that, she married husband Sam Asghari and is planning to release a memoir this fall. The book, titled “The Woman in Me,” lets Spears tell her own story in full, in her own words, for the first time.
The singer shared on Instagram on July 11, “I worked my ass off for this book. I had a lot of therapy to get this book done, so you guys better like it. If you don’t like it, that’s fine, too.” Additionally, many of Spears’s best-known songs are featured in the current Broadway musical “Once Upon a One More Time.”
