Britney Spears has her first launch in six years: “Maintain Me Nearer,” a collaboration with Elton John during which the pop icons take previous sounds and style one thing new.
The funky, piano-driven single makes use of John’s 1971 hit “Tiny Dancer” because the skeleton and provides parts from his songs “The One” and “Don’t Go Breaking My Coronary heart,” all with Spears voice hovering and fluttering.
Whereas John has been releasing new music prior to now few years — together with the 16-track 2021 album “The Lockdown Periods” — the tune represents Spear’s first new music since her 2016 album “Glory” and her first providing for the reason that ending of her contentious conservatorship.
“She really is an icon, one of many all-time nice pop stars and he or she sounds superb on this file. I like her dearly and am delighted with what we’ve created collectively,” John stated in a press release. Spears, in her assertion, advised John it was an honor to be requested: “I'm so grateful that I obtained the chance to work with you and your legendary thoughts.”
The monitor is produced by Andrew Watt, who has labored with such acts as Ed Sheeran, Eddie Vedder, Ozzy Osbourne, Justin Bieber, Submit Malone and Miley Cyrus.
The tune begins with each stars singing the opening lyrics of “The One” — “I noticed you dancing out the ocean/Working quick alongside the sand/A spirit born of earth and water/Hearth flying out of your arms.” It then seamlessly strikes to “Tiny Dancer”: “Maintain me nearer, tiny dancer/Rely the headlights on the freeway/Lay me down in sheets of linen/You had a busy day at present.”
The monitor calls to thoughts final yr’s hit “Chilly Coronary heart (PNAU Remix),” which melded John’s songs “Kiss the Bride,” “Rocket Man,” “The place’s the Shoorah?” and “Sacrifice” right into a dance bop that includes vocals by Dua Lipa.
John and Spears first met in 2014 at an Oscar viewing occasion and he or she later tweeted her love of “Tiny Dancer,” sowing the seeds for the newest collaboration. John is within the midst of his Farewell Yellow Brick Highway tour.