Britney Spears teams up with Elton John for first new song since 2016

Britney Spears released her first new song in six years on Friday with the debut of 'Hold Me Closer', a duet with British music legend Elton John. – Photos: AP

Britney Spears released her first new song in six years on Friday with the debut of Hold Me Closer, a duet with British music legend Elton John. (You can listen to it HERE).

The track – a dance-inflected take on John's 1970s ballad Tiny Dancer, with elements of his later hit The One – dropped less than a year after Spears won a court battle with her father, ending a conservatorship arrangement that gave him control over much of her life.