single Elton John & Britney Spears - "Hold Me Closer"

[GoodGuyGoneGhetto]

I can see this song becoming a hit in the U.K and Mainland Europe, Oceania too potentially. 
 

In the U.S, perhaps not, however the song is great so it just might. It’s so light, fresh and reminds me of a whimsical summer night. Beautiful. 

 

 

The music video will probably one of those typical Euro-Pop/Dance videos featuring actors just having a good day, full of positive vibes (I don’t John or Spears will be in it, beyond making a cameo appearance perhaps).

 

 

[Trash]

4 minutes ago, GoodGuyGoneGhetto said:

I can see this song becoming a hit in the U.K and Mainland Europe, Oceania too potentially. 
 

In the U.S, perhaps not, however the song is great so it just might. It’s so light, fresh and reminds me of a whimsical summer night. Beautiful. 

 

 

The music video will probably one of those typical Euro-Pop/Dance videos featuring actors just having a good day, full of positive vibes (I don’t John or Spears will be in it, beyond making a cameo appearance perhaps).

 

 

I'm not expecting an MV, i think the animation it's all we're getting, that or a lyric video.

[JoeRobert]

I love Britney and am glad to hear something new from her, I just always hated this song. I think if it had been her solo or at least solo in places I would've been able to warm to it a bit more.

[syrus]

Just heard the demo. That version is better. But the final mix is still cute. 

[Rainbow]

Ok wtf I just heard the demo and the mixing is better on that? It’s as if they wanted to hide her vocals or something 

[Ombre]

I like it but now I feel like it almost errs on the side of disrespect. Britney doesnt get a single solo verse? Elton's voice is always in the mix. I feel like her voice should have been in the forefront at least in some parts. Especially considering how much press Elton is getting from Britney's involvement. Maybe Britney's ig post had some truth to it. She called herself "a background voice". I wonder if she was expecting her voice to be more prominent like the leak

[dman4life]

After hearing the demo I definitely see why she was shady in her IG post. I can see why they needed to polish it some but changing her solo verse in the first chorus was unnecessary..

 

I still love it tho but yeah it's definitely shady!

[RihannaLoverrr]

I love this, I wish it was released earlier in summer

[syrus]

They need to release the demo version as a remix. 

[tigalion]

I haven't heard the demo but this needs multiple plays to get appreciated. I think their voices match really well but overall it sounds overproduced. Still good though. 

[BGood2Me]

No TTH's playlist 

[EtherealCat]

its nice hearing britney again 

[Dingdong123]

This is so good. Smash smash smash!

[BlackoutZone]

What a fun, catchy and joyous song  Love how slick the production is, the bass is so vibrant and the piano sounds magical. So much better than the demo, especially the vocal mixing. Hope the world loves it

[James_Dean]

 

[Relampago.]

Hmm… :/

 

I would prefer more of Britney’s voice, something along the lines of Cold Heart

[Jude]

She sounds a bit different? And her vocals does not fit with the instrumental. Cute song, though.

[Doogle]

Yeah I don’t like it. Love Britney happy for her and hope it smashes but I won’t be listening, happy to bop if I hear it on the radio tho

[lestat111]

it s like 2 robots drowning in some computer sounds, my god this is bad..

[mylicious]

2 hours ago, CandleGuy said:

The way everyone that comes into contact with this woman ends up using her and doing her dirty 

 

Elton really led her to believe she would be singing lead on this song only to shove her vocals to the back at the last minute and use her name / comeback story to sell his new single.

 

No wonder she threw that shade about "background vocals on your new song" on IG and then deleted her IG probably so she wouldn't be tempted to spill more tea about it.

Stop with this BS. My god, it must be exhausting thinking like this. 
 

The song is perfect, sometimes less is more. ;)

[Death & Decay]

I love the vibe of the song but their vocals are edited so badly that it’s hard to hear the lyrics. And they should’ve let Britney’s vocals shine. If I didn’t already know Britney was the one on the track, I would’ve thought it was some random female.

[jomarr]

I can’t with the complaints. Can we just enjoy the ******* song.

 

You guys are expecting Toxic 2.0 when the woman just wanted to record a damn song. Sometimes y’all are just annoying as ****.

 

Besides, this is Elton’s song. The song is really good and I hope she wouldn’t be as criticized publicly as how people are here in this thread because God knows what would happen.

[fountain]

2 hours ago, Slap said:

I have to laugh at all the meltdowns here because it’s just like old times whenever Britney releases anything. Britney might be free but some of ya’ll never gonna change, it’s so funny watching people scramble to find reasons to be negative about this

 

What is it about her? She gets everyone riled up over everything she does. Really enjoying the song. 
 

 

This  it’s like these people are actually desperate for drama around the song. Really weird behaviour. 

[nathanspears]

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[noonbob]

cute 

Wish she had a solo verse tho, so we could appreciate ha vocals more.

Loved the use of roses in the visuals.