Charli XCX Reacts To Reports That She's Written New Songs For Britney Spears
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Spears has pledged she will "never return to the music industry," but rumors of a possible comeback album have been swirling since last year.
Charli XCX has broken her silence on the longstanding rumors that she’s been writing music for Britney Spears.
On Monday’s episode of Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” the British singer-songwriter confirmed she had, in fact, been working on songs that she’d believed were intended for Spears, who pledged earlier this year that she would “never return to the music industry.”
“Well, yes, but it leaked to the press,” Charli XCX said. “Britney then did this post where she was like, ‘I don’t have random people write for me.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, OK, go off!’ So I don’t know that she was part of the process.”
She went on to note: “Her team were running before they could walk.”
Reports that Spears was working on a new album began to surface in August, shortly after the pop icon and her former husband, Sam Asghari, announced plans to divorce after a year of marriage.