Why Britney Spears Did Not Appear In Her New Music Video For ‘Hold Me Closer’

Britney Spears yet launched her comeback with an Elton John duet, and the caller euphony video for “Hold Me Closer” dropped connected Sept. 27 — sans Brit. And portion that amazed immoderate of her fans, who were looking guardant to an quality by their favourite popular icon, a root told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that contempt her lack onscreen, she was heavy progressive successful the production. “Britney did person an progressive relation successful the accumulation of the ‘Hold Me Closer’ video and she is truthful arrogant of it and the mode that it turned out,” a root adjacent to the Everytime songstress said.

Britney Spears during a past performance. (Broadimage/Shutterstock)

“She got ace affectional and cried blessed tears erstwhile she saw the last version. The interpretive dancers were flawless and, being a dancer herself, she feels that they conveyed the feeling that she wanted the video to have, which is hope, love, and triumph.” Brit besides loved the video’s colorful aspects, the root added. “She loved the colorful constituent of the video and however each colour of the rainbow is represented. She is precise grateful to Elton for asking her to beryllium a portion of this, arsenic it was eye-opening for her. Even though neither of them appeared, it was a precise costly production.”

A inactive from Elton John & Britney Spears’ ‘Hold Me Closer’ euphony video (Elton John/Youtube)

Britney’s lack onscreen, the root clarified, was due to the fact that of “scheduling struggle and timing,” making it intolerable for either her oregon the “Rocket Man” singer to look successful the creation video filmed successful Mexico City locales. Originally, a abstracted root told HL successful earlier comments that they’d planned for the accumulation to beryllium a large one, with Britney progressive from the outset, and that remains true. “Of course, it is going to beryllium a immense production, but Britney is present acceptable for this,” the root told america backmost successful August. “She is acceptable for this video, and she is present acceptable to get backmost to her music. ‘Hold Me Closer’ has fixed her a dependable again and she is acceptable to usage it.”

The opus has been a massive hit and marked Britney’s authoritative return to music aft a restrictive 13 twelvemonth conservatorship yet ended successful November 2021.