Now you can get your fingers on a Britney Spears-themed skateboard. Test it out under.
Skate model Welcome Skateboards unveiled their collaboration with the singer final Friday (26 July), in a group they are saying exists as a “celebration” of Spears’ contributions to popular culture.
Followers should buy customized decks and merch that includes iconic photographs from Spears’ profession, together with the quilt of her debut album ‘Child One Extra Time’, and photographs from her famed 2001 MTV VMAs efficiency.
There are additionally hoodies, t-shirts, hats and water bottles inscribed with lyrics from her greatest hits, like “I Nonetheless Imagine“, and “Not That Harmless“.
In an Instagram put up, the model stated the gathering highlights “an sudden however deeply rooted connection”, between skate tradition and pop music.
“From day one the aesthetic ethos of our model has been about mixing darkish with gentle,” they wrote. “Wild and intense imagery coloured up in neons and pastels. A punk tune again to again with a pop ballad in a skate video. A number of the earliest video edits from Welcome featured Britney Spears’ tracks which supplied the proper soundtrack for showcasing this boundary-free inventive spirit and love for inventive juxtaposition.”
They go on to say that the collaboration is “greater than an ode to our favorite pop star, it’s a celebration of a generational icon who has influenced music, trend, and popular culture as an entire for many years, and the enduring resilience required to realize that.
“It’s a testomony to the best way totally different subcultures that will appear at odds can coexist and enrich each other.”
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In different information, Charli XCX just lately revealed that she wrote some new music for Spears, however stated it was by no means recorded. Late final yr, it was reported that the singer-songwriter was engaged on materials for the pop stars’ comeback album – her first since 2016’s ‘Glory’. Charli had beforehand penned songs for Spears’ 2013 document ‘Britney Jean’, though none made the minimize.
Throughout a latest look on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen, the ‘Von Dutch’ artist confirmed that she had written one thing new for Spears.
“It leaked to the press. Britney then did this put up the place she was like, ‘I don’t have random individuals write for me’,” Charli defined. “And I used to be like, ‘Oh. OK. Go off’. So I don’t know that she was part of the method.
In 2022, Spears made her musical comeback along with her Elton John collaboration, ‘Maintain Me Nearer’. In 2023, she additionally launched ‘Thoughts Your Enterprise’ alongside will.i.am, and launched her memoir, The Girl In Me, which detailed her childhood experiences, profession, relationships and 13-year conservatorship.
The Girl In Me offered over a million copies in america inside one week of its launch. In late October, Spears additionally revealed in a since-deleted Instagram put up {that a} second quantity of the memoir was being written, and was due for launch in 2024.
Elsewhere, Ozzy Osbourne and his household issued an apology to Spears this week, after having just lately made disparaging feedback about her dancing in movies.
Halsey has additionally responded to Spears’ claims she felt “harassed, violated and bullied” by her new video Gia Coppola-directed video ‘Fortunate’, which interpolates the traditional 2000 Spears hit along with her blessing.
Spears revealed she was “very upset” by the video, which references previous outfits Spears has worn however portrays Halsey’s well being struggles. Halsey revealed she had been identified with Lupus and T-cell lymphoproliferative dysfunction in June this yr. Nevertheless, shortly after she walked again her assertion on X/Twitter, writing: “Pretend information !!! That was not me on my cellphone !!! I like Halsey and that’s why I deleted it 🌹 !!!”
In response to Spears’ tweet, Halsey responded: “I like Britney!!!! I at all times have and at all times will you have been the primary one that ever made me notice what it means to really feel impressed. And also you proceed to encourage me on a regular basis.”
