{"id":438775,"date":"2023-10-20T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totalcelnews.com\/?p=438775"},"modified":"2023-10-20T08:15:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:15:24","slug":"britney-spears-everytime-writer-says-lyrics-not-about-justin-timberlake-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totalcelnews.com\/celebrities\/britney-spears-everytime-writer-says-lyrics-not-about-justin-timberlake-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears &#039;Everytime&#039; Writer Says Lyrics Not About Justin Timberlake Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/b5\/4by3\/2023\/10\/19\/b524e6634fe4404098c44dc118a8621a_md.png\"          loading=\"lazy\"          alt=\"britney spears youtube music video new\"        ><\/p>\n<p><strong>Britney Spears<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>is NOT singing about her pregnancy with <strong>Justin Timberlake<\/strong> or her abortion in the hit song &#8220;Everytime&#8221; &#8230; so says the woman who wrote the song with Britney.<\/p>\n<p>Songwriter<strong> Annet Artani <\/strong>tells TMZ \u2026 she worked with Britney on the song back in the day, and while Britney contributed, it was about their respective breakups &#8230; and mostly Annet&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Annet says when she was writing the lyrics she was coming off a fresh split from Britney&#8217;s musical director &#8230; and the song is mostly about Annet&#8217;s relationship &#8230; not <strong>Britney&#8217;s unborn child<\/strong>, as some fans now suspect in the wake of Britney&#8217;s recent bombshell.<\/p>\n<p>Britney had been broken up with Justin for about 9 months at the time, and the song came out after he released &#8220;Cry Me a River&#8221; &#8230; but Annet says Britney never mentioned a baby or an abortion during the writing process, and neither topic served as inspiration for the track.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/7f\/4by3\/2023\/10\/19\/7f0cf26e495e4512b144a72b7fdbf381_md.png\"          loading=\"lazy\"          alt=\"britney spears fans react to music video tweets\"        ><\/p>\n<p>Annet tells us she and Britney would sit at the piano together working on the song &#8230; they were friends and were sharing pain, and they were both sad and would play piano together.<\/p>\n<p>As we reported &#8230; the famous lyric that <strong>has fans thinking<\/strong> Britney was secretly referencing her abortion is &#8220;I guess I need you, baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, Annet says the tagline was just something she wrote about her own experiences with her relationship. To be even clearer, she says it&#8217;s NOT a reference to an unborn baby.<\/p>\n<p>As for the song&#8217;s chorus &#8230; &#8220;And every time I see you in my dreams I see your face, you&#8217;re haunting me. I guess I need you, baby&#8221; &#8230; Annet says Britney came up with &#8220;haunting,&#8221; though she says they were simply trying to find words with rhymes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/5d\/4by3\/2023\/10\/17\/5d953a31eb0b4ad7b76dd7f58693900d_md.jpg\"          loading=\"lazy\"          alt=\"britney spears\"        ><\/p>\n<p>Annet&#8217;s kind of leaving the door open to the new Britney fan theory though &#8230; she says she was not involved in the music video or the imagery of a woman giving birth, and that was all Britney, so it&#8217;s possible that visual correlates to the decision she and Justin made to terminate her pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/4f\/16by9\/2023\/10\/19\/4fab18cb2aa04a73a63a04bd6fcaf95f_md.jpg\"            loading=\"lazy\"          ><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned &#8230; more conspiracy theories are sure to come.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/10\/20\/britney-spears-everytime-lyrics-not-about-unborn-baby-justin-timberlake-songwriter-denies-fan-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britney Spears is NOT singing about her pregnancy with Justin Timberlake or her abortion in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Britney Spears &#039;Everytime&#039; 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