Sorry, Britney admirers, but you most likely will not be able to see her in live performance ever again. In the whirlwind of new information Britney Spears has been dropping from her convey to-all memoir The Lady in Me, the pop star verified she’s quit the music business enterprise. And she really did it really a even though in the past.

Spears posted a assertion on her Instagram on Oct. 20 to deal with all the stories that have appear from early excerpts of her e book. In the 7 days right before its release, several passages have been printed that get rid of light on some darkish strategies from Spears’ past, most notably the she had an abortion whilst relationship Justin Timberlake soon after he told her he was not completely ready to be a father.

The details created a tidal wave of media protection, which Spears railed against in her Instagram concept.

“My book’s reason was not to offend any individual by any usually means !!! That was me then … that is in the past,” Spears wrote, going on to expose that intense media interest led her to stop the tunes enterprise in 2019. “I never like the headlines I am reading … that’s exactly why I give up the company 4 years in the past !!!”

The revelation isn’t way too surprising to longtime admirers. Spears has created responses that she’ll never ever accomplish yet again in latest many years, but this is the 1st time she’s flat-out said she’s done with the audio business.

The timing of her selection to quit tends to make sense. 2019 was when the #FreeBritney movement was born and Spears attended several hearings to terminate her father’s conservatorship of her. Given that then, Spears hasn’t concentrated on songs.

She has unveiled a few of new music in these earlier 4 a long time, but the two ended up just one-off collaborations that did not sign an upcoming album. In 2022, Elton John showcased Spears on a remixed variation of “Tiny Dancer” termed “Hold Me Nearer.” And before in 2023, Will.i.am reunited with Spears on the club track “Mind Your Company.”

It sounds like Spears is not really fascinated in returning to her pop-star times now. In the relaxation of her take note, she emphasised how psyched she was to go away the previous in the earlier and have a “clean slate.”

“Most of the guide is from 20 yrs back … I have moved on and it’s a lovely clean slate from here,” Spears wrote. “I am listed here to create it that way for the relaxation of my complete everyday living !!!”