It is said that since 2018, "Boss Jia" Justin Timberlake's pace on the music road seems to have slowed down a bit, and he has not released a new song for 6 years now.
直到1月25号，歌迷的等待终于有了结果：贾老板宣布将发行自己的第六张录音室专辑《Everything I Thought It Was》，同天，他放出了先行曲目《Selfish》。
As soon as the new song came out, it immediately rushed to the top three of the American iTunes charts, but in less than a day, a song with the same name topped Boss Jia's song and rushed to the first place on the list.
This song that suddenly came out of nowhere is Britney Spears' "Selfish".
(Leaderboard)
In fact, Britney's song was released in 2011, 13 years ago.
It even appeared as a "bonus track" for a deluxe album back then, which means that the record company didn't have much hope for the song, and the results were mediocre.
(This song is included in the deluxe edition of the album)
It doesn't seem to make any sense to suddenly become popular, especially at the juncture when Boss Jia releases a new song. If you taste it carefully, you can vaguely smell the strong smell of gunpowder.
And that's exactly what happened. Those who are familiar with the past of Britney and Boss Jia know that their grievances have lasted for twenty years.
In 1999, the two officially started dating and became a pair of dazzling golden boys and girls in the American music scene at that time.
(Photo of the two at the time)
But just three years later, their romance came to an abrupt end. At the beginning, it was said that "amicable breakup, or friends".
Boss Jia even publicly stated in "People" magazine that he was "deeply hurt", "cried until he fell asleep every night", and said that he "will always love Britney" or something.
(Boss Jia claims that he "loves her forever")
Unexpectedly, Boss Jia's "eternal love" deteriorated rapidly.
5 months later, he released the famous single "Cry Me a River", not only the actress in the MV resembles Britney, but the lyrics are also betrayal, cheating or something, the intention is self-evident.
（Cry Me a River的MV）
Around the same time, Boss Jia was interviewed on TV, and the host asked him if Britney had kept her past promises.
The host's so-called "promise" refers to the fact that Britney had said in her teenage years that she would not have premarital sex, and she was secretly spying on whether the two had ever had a relationship.
In this regard, Boss Jia blurted out: "Of course (keep it)." But he still has a smug and sarcastic smile on his face, which is actually a negative meaning.
(Screen from the program at the time)
Still in this episode of the show, Boss Jia played and sang a song to the host, and the lyrics were still themes such as broken love and betrayal, and there was such a sentence:
"(Although we broke up, but) at least you gave me another song about rotten women. ”
(Screen from the program at the time)
In the same month, Boss Jia was interviewed by Hot97 Radio in New York, and the DJ asked him very straight:
"Have you ever had a relationship with Britney?"
Boss Jia simply admitted it.
Then the DJ didn't give up and asked a lot of details.
Boss Jia also admitted it.
By 2007, everyone knew that Britney had a psychological problem and had a shaved head.
(Britney shaves her head)
At the same time, Boss Jia's career flourished and won the British Music Award. In his acceptance speech, he said directly to the camera:
"Stop drinking! You know who you are, you know I'm talking about you. ”
"You're going to be sloppy, okay! Magazines are going to say bad things about you. ”
Just looking at the text seems to be persuasion, but when you look at the expression, it is difficult to hide the banter.
(Boss Jia at the award ceremony)
Later, GQ magazine interviewed him and asked if he was speaking to Britney, but he denied it.
But there was also a photo of him shaved in the current issue.......
(Photo from GQ Magazine)
It wasn't until 2018, 16 years after they broke up, that Boss Jia interviewed on Apple Music, and the host asked him if he would consider performing in Las Vegas.
Boss Jia said "absolutely not", saying that performing in Vegas felt like "planning for retirement".
(Interview screen)
Coincidentally, Britney had been performing in Vegas for five years at the time, and it was quite successful......
(Britney Spears was a resident in Vegas for five years)
Boss Jia has done it many times like this, some of them may be fans chasing after the wind, and some of them are really suspicious.
In short, he didn't converge until after 2018, and the above shows are just the tip of the iceberg, and if you are interested, you can also search for it, so I won't list it here.
However, Britney has always behaved very restrained and has not replied much, only in March 2022, she posted an IG update, accusing Boss Jia of "weaponizing her name for the sake of fame and fortune".
However, the original post was quickly deleted by herself, and only some media reports can prove that she said this.
(related reports)
What's more, last year, Britney Spears wrote a memoir "The Women in me", which broke a big news, saying that she had an abortion for Boss Jia, but Boss Jia thought that they were still too young and were very determined not to have children.
Britney couldn't resist him, so she beat the child out anyway.
Looking back now, she says, "Even today, it was one of the most painful experiences of my life. ”
(Britney's Memoirs)
It can only be said that Britney doesn't fight back, and if she fights back, she will be the king......
In the face of media inquiries, Boss Jia sacrificed the technique of pretending to be dead, but did not respond.
And this also laid the groundwork for the two "Selfish" wars mentioned at the beginning.
Britney herself, after getting rid of her control freak father, doesn't want to have anything to do with the entertainment industry anymore.
But her fans are not necessarily the same.
After Boss Jia released his "Selfish", a fan account named "Britney Ironfan" tweeted:
This Thursday, January 25th, Britney will release her new single "Selfish". ”
(Original post of "Britney Spears Fan")
Originally, there were many jokes in this remark, because except for some die-hard fans, most people didn't even know that Britney had such a song.
Some confused passers-by can still be seen in the comments of the original post:
"Well, I'm dizzy. Didn't Britney Spears post this song in 2011? This is a new version? I'm dizzy right now. ”
(Confused passerby)
However, if you contact Boss Jia a little bit to send the news of the new song, you will probably know what is going on.
So more and more fans joined the battle group, and Britney Spears and this song were on the top of the Twitter hot search......
（Selfish登上热搜）
(Britney is on the hot search)
The next thing is relatively simple, after all, fans are professional in brushing the list......
In addition, many music radio stations support ordering songs, and fans are crazy about Aite a radio station called 102.7 KIIS FM and ask them to play the song Britney......
（粉丝们@电台放布兰妮的歌）
And then they really let it go.......
There is also 106.1 KISS FM in the United States, which followed this one.
(KISS FM PLAYS BRITNEY'S SONG)
Even if passers-by see this hot search and hear the song on the radio, they are likely to be curious, open the music software and listen to it, which is another part of the data.
I have to say that Britney is still very popular, and her influence should not be underestimated, in less than a day, her "Selfish" topped iTunes and topped Boss Jia.
"Revenge" was successful, and fans couldn't be happier......
"Boss Jia's expression now is like:"
(From Twitter netizen comments)
"A 13-year-old bonus song squeezed him down. ”
(From Twitter netizen comments)
"It's no sweat at all. ”
(From Twitter netizen comments)
"The queen will always be TOP!!"
(From Twitter netizen comments)
The most excessive even chased down Boss Jia's tweet to promote "Selfish" and taunted his face:
"The only 'Selfish' we want is Britney's! She wants to get it all back!"
(From Twitter netizen comments)
It seems that what Boss Jia has done for so many years, fans still remember it, and when the time comes, they will take crazy revenge.......
Let's go back and see the reaction of the two main owners:
Boss Jia reposted one of his performances at SNL, acting as if he didn't know about it at all.
(Boss Jia forwards SNL)
And Britney, she turned IG into a private state early, and passers-by couldn't see it at all.
However, according to the screenshots of fans on Twitter, she actually posted three pure white pictures on IG, which are really pure white, there is nothing on them, and I don't understand what it means at all......
(Britney's IG)
Reminiscent of the beginning of this month, there were rumors that Britney was preparing to make a new album, she categorically denied this statement, and also said on IG:
"Most of the news is garbage!"
"I'll never go back to music!!"
(Britney says she will never return to music)
This kind of thing can be said, which shows her disgust and even hatred for this profession.
But less than a month after she finished speaking, the flow from the sky brought her to the forefront again.
I don't know if that's what she wants.