Britney recording new album
2008-07-17 10:47
New York - Britney Spears is working on a new album, her label said on Wednesday, as the US pop star seeks to rebound from a period of troubling behaviour and hospital stints for psychiatric evaluations.
Spears, 26, has spent much of the past 18 months in the
headlines for an ugly divorce, losing custody of her two sons,
rehab treatment, and erratic behaviour like shaving her head and
attacking a photographer's car with an umbrella.
But in the past six months Spears father Jamie has taken
over management of her personal and business affairs and she
has also been mentioned as a possible Emmy award nominee for
two guest appearances on US television series How I Met Your
Mother.
Now her manager, Larry Rudolph, and label, Jive Records,
said in a statement that Spears, one of the world's most
successful pop stars of the early 2000s, "is spending her
summer in the recording studio, working on a brand new album.
"She's working with a team of top-notch producers and songwriters and we're very excited about what she's
accomplished so far. No album release date has been confirmed
yet," the statement said.
Spear's last album, Blackout debuted at No 2 on the Billboard 200 last November, but quickly slid down the chart.
Spears and her former backup dancer Kevin Federline, 30,
were divorced last summer after two years of marriage. The
couple have two children together, Sean Preston, and
James Jayden, and have started mediation sessions to
work out custody and avoid a trial set for August.