Britney Spears Unveils Five Unreleased Tracks for Her Album’s 25th Anniversary

Britney Spears is marking a quarter-century of her third studio album with an expanded edition featuring five songs that had not previously been released, according to the report. The new collection revisits the 2001 record, which included hits such as “I’m a Slave 4 U,” “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” and “Lonely.” Among the previously unheard tracks is “She’ll Never Be Me,” a song Spears wrote in 2001 with her then-partner Justin Timberlake. She recorded it while preparing the album, but it remained unfinished and did not make the original track list. The song was shared last month as a preview of the anniversary release. The expanded edition also includes “My Big Secret,” created by production duo The Neptunes, made up of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo. The report says the song was reportedly first offered to Janet Jackson. Other additions are “Right Now (Taste The Victory),” “Am I A Sinner” and “When I Say So,” along with remixes of “Boys” and “Overprotected.” The release arrives after a period in which Spears has spoken about stepping away from music. She was freed in 2021 from a conservatorship that had controlled aspects of her finances and career for nearly 14 years, and later expressed little interest in returning to the music scene. In February, she sold the rights to her music catalog to Primary Wave, according to the article.