This is a list of producers that Britney Spears
has worked with,
A list of unreleased and leaked tracks is also listed.
This information has been compiled from various sources over the years and is accurate.
Oops!...I Did It Again Era
Shanks and Bigfoot
"UK production duo Shanks & Bigfoot have revealed exclusively to
dotmusic that they are writing for Britney Spears' new album.
Shanks told dotmusic: "It obviously won't be our traditional 2-step sound,
but it will use our drum sounds, orchestration
and overall melodic feel."
- October 21, 1999
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Full Force
"Fast-forward to the late '90s: same place, same players. A teenage girl named Britney Spears from Kentwood, Louisiana, is in the Full Force studio, trying out material for an upcoming album. "Britney spent a week with us in Brooklyn," recalls Lou."
"Some of the other artists that they have produced and written for are Britney Spears."
* A track from Britney's recordings sessions with Full Force, titled "Luv The Hurt Away" was posted on their official website. An R&B ballad and a duet with Full Force, it showcased much stronger vocals from Spears.
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In The Zone Era
Guy Chambers
"Dotmusic reported that Britney Spears is working on her new album with Robbie Williams' ex songwriting partner, Guy Chambers, according to reports. The pop princess is said to have made a number of trips to Guy's studio in North London where the pair have been working on a raunchy new track, 'Sacred'." Guy wrote the unreleased tracks "Sacred" and "Free" with Britney and Cathy Dennis.
- November 2002
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Nisan Stewart and Missy Elliott
"UMPG has signed producer/songwriter/drummer Nisan Stewart to an exclusive worldwide publishing deal. Stewart produced several tracks on Tweet's debut album, Southern Hummingbird (Elektra), which has scanned more than 700,000 units. He's also busy working with Missy Elliott for the new Britney Spears project."
- November 8, 2002
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"Spears said she'll again work with producer Rodney Jerkins for the follow-up to last year's 'Britney.'"
- December 2002
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Daft Punk and William Orbit
"Mainly, I've just been having meetings with people to hear their stuff to see if I want to work with them in January. I met up with some really hot producers, William Orbit and Daft Punk, overseas." The pop princess also told trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter that she had taken meetings while in Europe with producer William Orbit (Madonna, Blur) and electronic duo Daft Punk about possible collaborations. Her working with Orbit was suspected in November, but Spears wouldn't spill (see "Britney Spears' Hiatus Is History"). "I can't tell you. Then it won't be cool when it comes out," she said. And like Pink and more recently Nick Carter, Spears might to go more rock on her next venture and perhaps delve deeper into hip-hop, according to The Hollywood Reporter. But it can't be forced, she told the magazine — it's got to be an organic evolution. "It should just happen naturally from the way you feel. ... I'm in the studio just doing my thing and letting it flow. Whatever happens, happens."
- December 2002
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In a 2007 interview, Daft Punk commented about what happened to their collaboration with Britney:
If Britney or Madonna had asked you to work on their albums would you have been interested?
"I think both of them already have asked in the past, in fact. But unfortunately we were too busy at the time and we couldn’t do it. In the future when we have more time then maybe."
- November 27, 2007
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DFA Records/LCD Soundsystem/James Murphy
It was first confirmed that Britney was working with DFA in a 2003 issue of "Wired" magazine.
"Most surreally, they spent an afternoon in the studio with Britney Spears. "That was weird," says Goldsworthy. "Won't do that again. No offense to her - she's lovely. Got a foul mouth, though!" The brief session came to nothing, through lack of common musical ground. "When we work with people, we hang out, listen to records, share stuff," says Murphy. "But with Britney we had absolutely no way of communicating. She didn't know anything that we knew." Its ability to straddle genres while maintaining a definitive sound has even sparked an interest from the pop world. "We spent a day working with Britney Spears on a song and just thought, 'This is silly. It isn't really our thing.' We're not being superior. It's just not the way we work," they said of the ill-fated collaboration." April 2004 Source
"Enter Britney to cheer them up. Or not. "We felt really confused as to what to do, so we thought, 'Let's try our approach - hanging out for months, listening to records, learning to trust each other, fighting and getting really intense - with a pop star.' "So she comes in with her minder and her rules: 'She'll be available from four till seven, we want you to work on lyrics with her ...' Which was just bizarre. I'm lying on the floor of the studio with Britney and a notebook, working on lyrics. Now, I know what kind of lyrics I write and I can't imagine them coming out of her head. I was going, 'Come on, you must hate the world, let's write a song about it!'" Britney, it turned out, wasn't ready to write a song full of angst and dark urges. Murphy, for his part, admits: "I have a thing about inane lyrics - the world doesn't need them."
- October 28, 2004
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"James Murphy was given an impossible task: To produce a hit for Britney Spears in less than three hours.
" came over, and the idea was that I would write lyrics with her. We were really open-minded, because who knows what she's like as a person?" the LCD Soundsystem frontman and DFA producer said of his failed collaboration with the pop princess. "Maybe she was really starving to do something else, and we could play her records , but that's not how that world works," he said amid downtime during the recent South by Southwest festival (see "Queens Of The Stone Age Are Kings Of SXSW 2005"). " sends her to work with like 30 or 40 producers to see who is going to generate a hit, and that isn't interesting to me."
"Britney was there because the DFA — the production duo founded by Murphy and his British partner in crime, Tim Goldsworthy — are one of the trendiest record-making teams of the last five years. At the beginning of this decade, the pair was producing dance-rock records and remixes for the indie acts like Radio 4 and Le Tigre, but a song they produced for the Rapture, "House of Jealous Lovers," became a bona fide underground hit in 2002 (see "The Rapture's Dirty Disco Teaches The Underground To Dance")."
- Britney worked with DFA in 2003, interview from April 2005
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"Long rumored unfinished Tim Goldsworthy demo track for Britney which got shelved by Jive Records for being "too hip" according to DFA mgr Jonathan Galkin."
- January 2006
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"At one point The DFA were approached to produce pop princess Britney Spears, but the time frame delineated for their sessions was absurd. "The circumstances weren't particularly good," Murphy rues. "It was a lot of, 'Well, she can be there from 4 to 5.30 to write a song.' It was just a bunch of bullshit, so we pulled the plug on it after a day."
- February 7, 2006
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"LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy has spoken about working with Britney Spears. The two worked together in 2003 on tracks for possible inclusion on her album ’In The Zone’. He told New York Magazine: “It was very strange - we were both lying on the floor, head-to head, working on lyrics in a notepad. “She seemed eager to please, but it went nowhere. She went to dinner and just never came back.” One of the tracks, which remained untitled, surfaced on the internet last year."
- March 21, 2007
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An unfinished demo of the song Spears recorded with DFA leaked onto the internet on January 4, 2006. It's often known as "DFA Demo" or "Get It." More information about the song can be found here.
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Fred Durst
"Durst spared no detail in discussing his professional relationship with Spears, saying that he wrote three songs for her, which he recorded as demos using his voice. "Her management called, and I thought, 'She's pretty hot. I've always had this thing for her. We'll see what happens.' I wrote these songs ... I said, 'Just sing what I sing and I'll mute my voice.'" Durst said the pair spent two or three days in a studio working on the songs, which he described as trip-hop tracks reminiscent of Portishead and the Sneaker Pimps. "I'm very diverse. I write in a lot of different styles. It was very dark ... too mature for her." Durst said he told Spears' label he was not going to let her use the songs after Spears began denying their personal relationship in the press. The Spears spokesperson said no final track selection has been made yet for the album, but that it does not appear that the Durst tracks will be included. "She's still recording the bulk of it," the spokesperson said."
- February 2003
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"MTV reported that When Britney Spears drops her new album this fall, don't be surprised to find a little reminder of her relationship with Fred Durst. The Limp Bizkit frontman is among the producers working on Spears' as-yet-untitled new album, due in October, according to a Jive Records spokesperson. Durst has produced one unnamed track thus far, but it, as well as everything else that has been done for the follow-up to 2001's Britney, is not guaranteed to wind up on Spears' fourth LP.
Those familiar with Durst's posts on the Bizkit site know that he had been fawning over Spears earlier this month, claiming, among other things, that "he had never felt this way before". "As for Spears, she's dropped the three Durst-produced tracks from her forthcoming album, MTV News reports."
- January 2003
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Two of the songs confirmed were the mid-tempo "Nothing" and a cover of INXS's "I Need You Tonight," a duet with Fred (confirmed in a 2003 issue of Rolling Stone).
"Most recently, he has collaborated with Britney Spears."
- Late 2002/Early 2003
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Ilal
"Also, Avatar recently hosted a reportedly "resting" Britney Spears in Studio C. She was tracking with producers Rob Fusari and Bilal
along with engineer Bart Migal on the Sony Oxford OXF-R3."
- Late 2002/Early 2003
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The Neptunes
In 2003, it was confirmed that Britney was working with The Neptunes on tracks for her fourth album. The tracks were never released, and in summer of that year Britney said that she was "over them." Pharell of the Neptunes had originally wanted Kelis' hit "Milkshake" (produced by them) to be given to Britney for "In The Zone."
- "Mainstays Rodney Jerkins and the Neptunes are again logging time with the pop princess."
- March 2003
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7 Aurelius
"Both 7, who also worked on the latest Tupac album, and the Matrix have done three tracks with Spears and are hoping to do more.
"I'm doing something for her, something really ridiculous. record I'm going to do for Britney is going to give Justin a reason to cry," Aurelius said, suggesting a song that answers Timberlake's "Cry Me a River," which is widely believed to be about Spears. "It was her people that came and sat down, played me a lot of stuff she did. We sat down and talked out ideas and I got to working on stuff. It sounds crazy."
- March 2003
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The Matrix
Britney had recorded three tracks with The Matrix, only one has been released ("Shadow").
"Spears has said she may explore her hip-hop and rock influences on the follow-up to Britney, but the Matrix's Lauren Christy said that's not exactly the case.
"It's definitely not anywhere near Avril," Christy said. "It's really hard to put it in a box. It's not really R&B-based or dance-based, it's just really good songs. It's not done in a rock way at all, though."
Christy, a former pop singer herself, likened the album to Madonna's Ray of Light, which is fitting since Spears has met with William Orbit, who produced that album, and is said to be working with Mirwais, another Madonna producer. And Durst described his work with Spears as having a trip-hop vibe, like Madonna's "Frozen."
"It's got a really good groove," Christy said of Spears' record so far.
"She's taking it to the next level in her career," the Matrix's Scott Spock added. "Madonna constantly takes what's in the club and puts what she does on top of it and makes it mainstream. I think Britney is starting to embrace that concept where she's looking to work on different stuff, instead of using the same familiar, and applying it to her." The Matrix have been presenting Spears with songs already written for her, as they did with Lavigne, but she has been active in tailoring them to suit herself, especially the words. "Lyrically, it's a little deeper, just a little more grown up, but not trying to change the world or anything," Christy said. "The great thing about Britney is she really knows what she wants. She knows if she's trying something on that doesn't fit right for her. She's like, 'No, that's not me.' She's not one to strap on some sort of fake image." Christy is particularly excited about a track called "Shadow." "She just kills it," the British producer said. "It's amazing. I was really impressed with her vocal ability on it." Although Spears' album will be different, Spock said fans need not worry. "I don't think they will be freaked out or upset," he said. "I think they'll be really into what's going to happen."
- March 2003
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Bloodshy & Avant
Produced at least five songs for "In The Zone," only four of the songs they produced for her during that time have been released ("Toxic," "Showdown," "I've Just Begun," "Chaotic"). Also produced "Hollow" with Cathy Dennis, although this remains unreleased (see 'Unreleased Songs' article below). Christina Milian's "I Need More," produced by them, was meant to be given to Britney for "In The Zone." Rachel Steven's "Sweet Dreams My LA Ex," produced by Bloodshy & Avant and Cathy Dennis, was also meant for Britney, but she turned it down.
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Shep Soloman
Worked with Britney on a few tracks, the only one released is "Touch Of My Hand." He also collaborated with her on the unreleased tracks "Wonderland" and "Stay," which was described as a mix between Coldplay and Massive Attack.
- Metro
Confirmed in article on MTV.com. Source currently unavailable.
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Robert 'Big Bert' Smith is an R&B producer and former husband of R&B singer Brandy.
"Smith isn't limiting his songwriting and producing to his wife's career. He's also penning and producing tunes for pop princess Britney Spears and Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin."
- May 2003
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Wade Robson
"Wade has also been working with the great Carly Simon and recently has been back in the studio with Britney Spears." Posted on Wabe Robson's official website in August 2003.
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Source: Wikibin
