Alright honey bears, well all know it’s someone’s birthday somewhere around the globe. So if any of you Britney Spears fanatics happen to celebrate such a milestone today then you’ll be enjoying a very merry bday with a leak of an old-new Britney tune that has just been unleashed! “Red Hot Lipstick” is the name of the ditty.
It’s a new Blackout-era demo and the producer of the saucy mid-tempo jam, Doug Elkin’s, released the song and it is currently available for purchase, but we all know will likely be removed soon. So you know what that means. GET ON IT, just as I’m sure Brit Brit got on this track after her first listen from Mister Elkin’s. With the song comes a thorough tale of how it came to manifest:
“I produced and co-wrote this song for/with Britney Spears. I could write a few chapters about my professional life with Britney Spears, but since I have always chosen to be pretty discreet on the subject, I’m just going to say a couple of things here:
Britney can sing. I often would beg her to stop chewing gum in the vocal booth (to no avail), but she really can sing well when she puts her heart into it. It totally bums me out when I see her lip-syncing (which is almost always).
I know it is ridiculous to feel bad for someone as wealthy and beloved as Britney, but when I see that medicated Francis Farmer-esque look inward Britney’s eyes and her less than passionate performances of late, I really do feel like she is really not all there.
One of the most exciting moments of my professional career was the day Britney handed in this song as part of her finished record to her label Jive Records. As I waited over the course of several months to find out the fate of the song, I watched along with the world in horror as her marriage imploded and she went bat sh*t CRAZY. “Blackout”, the album that came out after her hair had finally grown back (at least enough to put in extensions anyway) included none of the songs she had turned in to the label originally. I have to admit “Blackout” was pretty good… of course, minus one glaring omission. Shout out to my boy Christian Janson (AKA Noterock) for jumping on the track for eight bars and destroying it as always!”
