When are you people going to learn? Britney Spears does not want to come back to anything! She likes living in a crumbling house of squalor littered with dirty diapers, regurgitated Milk Bones, greasy White Castle wrappers, and maybe a few forgotten nannies' bodies. If she somehow recaptures her past success, then hard work will have to follow. Hard work is for poor people. And Britney ain't poor yet. Duh. Page Six relays Brit's latest missed opportunity:
Britney Spears backed out at the last minute from recording a duet with her old flame, Justin Timberlake – and the inexplicable decision last month has suits at her record label, Jive, very worried.The duet, which was to be produced by hit-maker Timbaland at his studio in Virginia Beach, could have started a big comeback for the troubled pop tart, who peaked before she had two marriages and two kids.
A music industry source said Timberlake wrote the duet specifically for Spears. Although they wouldn't be together in the studio, his voice would have been mixed with hers later.
"Timbaland set aside a week out of his crazy schedule to do this – and then, just before she was supposed to fly out, Britney abruptly canceled the session and refused to do the song.
"It's crazy," the insider added. "She's looking for a comeback, and this would have not only been a huge hit, but something she could have opened the MTV Video Awards with and really blown everyone away."
Another insider said, "Listen, everyone is worried. In her mind, her album is done and she's done enough work . . . She's an easy target right now, because she's . . . sick. People like her are sick. It's like an anorexic who's sick in the head and needs help. She needs help. It's sad because what she's got – and we've heard it's like bipolar disorder – can easily be treated with medication, but she won't do it."
There's concern that Spears, now without a great song to perform, will bomb at the VMAs, which would have been her crucial comeback appearance.
As for whether or not Jive has wiped their hands of Spears, the insider said, "People at Jive have been with Britney since album one, and have an investment in her. They have faith that once the material is there, she will become focused and step it up. She's very competitive, but at the end of the day, it's hard. She has to do the work – no one can do it for her."
Reps for Jive and Timberlake declined to comment. Spears, who's embroiled in a nasty custody battle for her children, Sean Preston and Jaden James, with her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, doesn't have representation and couldn't be reached.
Look, we all miss the old Britney, what with her hotness and tight abs and fake virginity. Those were good times. But we've gotta let it go. She's not coming back. This is the Britney we have now. Embrace her. You wouldn't ask Liz Taylor to give up the Ho-Hos and ten pounds of Clinique products and slink around a sound stage in her old Butterfield 8 slip, now would you?
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Damn. Peaked in early 20's? Liz had much more to give (and did)for so much longer.