RuthAnne Cunningham told Means Happy that different parts of 2013’s Work B**ch were put together by different writers – and that she was only told Spears had recorded it four days before it was released.
Surprisingly, when it was put together, she had absolutely no idea who – if anyone – would end up singing it.
“I came up with the melody parts, the ‘hold your head high, fingers to the sky’ section, for example. All the bits in the song that are sung,” she explained.
“I wasn’t there for the recording itself, but she definitely sings the melody parts in her way, if that makes sense, so it sounds very unmistakably ‘Britney’.
“I think she sounds great on it. I’m not sure where the British accent came from, but I love it.”
Speaking to the new LGBTQ+ website, she said of the moment she head who’d sung it: “A call came four days before it came out and it was played down the phone to me. I was like, wait, that’s our song; I know that voice – is that Britney Spears?!
“Then I was told it was the lead single for her new album and it was coming out in four days. I was like, s**t.
“I mean it’s every 13 year old’s dream, isn’t it?”
Spears is coming to the UK later in the year for some rare tour dates.
The jaunt comes after the closure of her Las Vegas residency Piece of Me, which broke records and became one of the most successful shows ever of its kind.
As for new music, Spears has long been rumoured to drop new material this year but that remains unconfirmed.
She released her most recent opus, Glory, back in 2013 – led by the single Make Me (Oooh).
Currently rumours are doing the rounds that she may collaborate with Panic! At The Disco, after Rock Sound reported them liking a tweet speculating on a duet.
Spears shot to fame in 1999 and has sold over 100 million records worldwide, and 28.6 million digital singles in the USA alone.
