Britney talks to Vogue about "Mind Your Business:" "I love my fans more than anything and hope they love the song too"

[Mutya]

Britney opens up about her and will.iam's new collab, "Mind Your Business. In an interview with Vogue, Britney says: “Will is an incredible artist and partner. We worked on this song years ago, and it was time re-produce it and share it with my incredible fans.”

She adds: “we went back and forth on making the song more current, and adding a heavy base and choir to it,” says Spears. 

Will commented that “Britney had some great input about the music, to add hip-hop elements that we incorporated into the final track.”

Britney continued: “I love my fans more than anything,” she says, “and hope they love the song, too!”

 

Full story below via Vogue:

“Mind your business, *****.” It’s what Britney Spears purrs on her new single with will.i.am, titled “Mind Your Business,” released today. The electro-pop dance track is already garnering much chatter online, given it’s one of Spears’s first musical endeavors since her 2016 album, Glory (though, she released “Hold Me Closer” with Elton John last summer). 

Turns out, it was a track from the duo’s archives a few years back, and they felt it needed a new summer 2023 moment. “Will is an incredible artist and partner,” Spears tells Vogue. “We worked on this song years ago, and it was time re-produce it and share it with my incredible fans.” The track originally stemmed from a conversation the two stars were having about fame, and the lack of privacy that often comes with it. “Every single person, famous and not, has their privacy invaded in some shape or form in this digital age,” says will.i.am. “It’s a sentiment for the times, so we should be more humane to each other, respect and have empathy for each other, and be thankful for what people choose to share publicly. If people don’t want to share, we need to respect their right not to share, and to have a private life.”

It’s not the first track will.i.am and Spears have released together. “Working with her is like teaming up with a kindred spirit: We both love music and the art of expressing ourselves,” says will.i.am. They first collaborated on 2011’s “Big Fat Bass,” and have followed it up with their 2013 club-ready banger “Scream & Shout” and “It Should Be Easy.” With their latest, “Mind Your Business,” the pair wanted to bring some of that 2010s lighthearted-pop energy back to the present. “We went back and forth on making the song more current, and adding a heavy base and choir to it,” says Spears. “It’s fun, campy, and edgy—a perfect song for the summer.” Will.i.am adds, “Britney had some great input about the music, to add hip-hop elements that we incorporated into the final track.”

It’s an especially genius track to release now, given there continues to be much fan and media speculation around Spears during her post-conservatorship era. Her message to the world is clear in the song: “Mind your B, mind your B, mind your B,” Spears sings, poking fun at the relentless public fascination around her.“Uptown, downtown, everywhere I turn around; Hollywood, London, snap-snap is the sound; Paparazzi shot me, I am the economy.” Her need for privacy is a theme she also explored in her anti-paparazzi hit, “Piece of Me,” back in 2007. “If you are a person like Britney who can’t even go to the supermarket without cameras or someone wanting to know every single step she takes, that’s horrible,” says will.i.am. “Everyone can relate to their privacy being undermined—and that’s ‘Mind Your Business.””

Is minding your business not a perfect summer mood, though? Summer, after all, is about drinking margaritas, laying out in the sun, and living a care-free lifestyle. In the case of our legendary Princess of Pop—who announced her memoir, The Woman in Me, is releasing in October—more people should definitely be minding their business; Let her live, post her epic Instagram dance sequences, and carry out her tropical vacations in peace. Spears says the release of this new pop track is dedicated to all of her beloved fans. “I love my fans more than anything,” she says, “and hope they love the song, too!” They clearly do: It’s already climbing the charts.

 

 

“It’s Fun, Campy, and Edgy”; Britney Spears on Her New Song With Will.i.am | Vogue

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The pop star partnered with will.i.am on a new summer banger, “Mind Your Business.”

 

[Antidote]

lol ok Cade.

[Markoct]

4 minutes ago, Mutya said:

"We worked on this song years ago"

 

Hopefully the 'positive' trolls will stop claiming its newly recorded.

 

Will they tho? 

[Jup1ter]

[CharmingMadness]

Well, we been knew it’s an old one, that’s why it’s not that fresh with the sound, but ok, I love the fact she’s sharing with the fans and tasting the waters in music here and there

go,babe!

[easy]

I think some people only read what they want to read. Yes, an old song that they 

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went back and forth on making the song more current, and adding a heavy base and choir to it,” says Spears.

[BritBritSpearsLove]

Is this the first post cship "interview" she gave?

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[HotCoffee]

The sound sounds fresh to me! 

I'm in love!

Do you like this edit I made using the song?

Spoiler

 

 

[easy]

The last paragraph of this is the best part, though 

[Charrrmed89]

1 minute ago, easy said:

I think some people only read what they want to read. Yes, an old song that they 

[Charrrmed89]

3 minutes ago, easy said:

I think some people only read what they want to read. Yes, an old song that they 

[IamMax]

All clarified. Now stop trolling.

[Kiss my]

She has incredible fans?

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[Urbanney]

Oh my god, I was not expecting this! Correct me if I'm wrong, but she hasn't given an interview about music since Glory in 2016, right?

[PokemonSpears]

Queen of giving us hidden gems from her most personal album, Britney Jean

[Matou]

to this

girl wake up, love you

[Naes614]

Alright I’ll buy the damn thing on iTunes now 

[CentralCJ]

She’s officially in her vault era. Open it the fuvk up!!

 

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[ThisMeowBiteback]

I knew it was fresh because of the hip-hop elements in the song. Britney was nowhere near a hip hop sound in 2010

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[PokemonSpears]

1 minute ago, ThisMeowBiteback said:

I knew it was fresh because of the hip-hop elements in the song. Britney was nowhere near a hip hop sound in 2010

and tbh it would've been kind of redundant to release it one year after Scream & Shout