“I’m so excited that Britney and I made a new song together,” John said in the interview. “She’s been gone for so long. She has a lot of fear because she has been betrayed many times. For that reason, we reassured her throughout the process by saying that everything will be fine.”
John hopes Hold Me Closer will be a big hit, because in his eyes it can help Spears become happy again. “That’s all someone like her deserves, especially after going through such a trauma she had to endure.” With this, the singer refers to the guardianship that Spears had to deal with for years.
The song Spears and John released is a new version of John’s hit Tiny Dancer out 1972. At the end of July it was already whispered that Spears would make her musical comeback together with the Brit. On August 8, those rumors were confirmed by the artists themselves. It is the first time that Spears has released music since the singer is no longer under the guardianship of her father. That reign ended last year.