Originally appeared on E! Online
Oops!… Britney Spears followers did it once more.
This time, the “Toxic” singer’s stan military efficiently banded collectively to stream her 2011 song “Selfish” so it will surpass ex Justin Timberlake’s new single of the identical identify on the U.S. iTunes Top Songs chart.
Spears’ deep lower—a bonus track off her 2011 Femme Fatale album—climbed to primary on the chart Jan. 26, whereas Timberlake’s “Selfish,” launched lower than 24 hours earlier than, sat at quantity three.
The plan to push previous Timberlake’s song on the chart was concocted on X, the place Spears’ military accounts urged their followers to stream her music in an try and tamp down gross sales of Timberlake’s forthcoming album, “Everything I Thought I Was”. His love song “Selfish” is the primary single off the 42-year-old’s upcoming document, set to drop March 15.
Timberlake—who married Jessica Biel in 2012—sings on the track, “‘Cause your lips were made for mine / And my heart would go flatline / If it wasn’t beatin’ for you all the time.”
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All this trolling comes three months after Spears bought candid about her early-aughts relationship with Timberlake in her memoir, “The Woman in Me”. In the ebook, printed in October, the 42-year-old shared numerous revelations about their previous romance, together with that she turned pregnant with the “Cry Me A River” singer’s child however had an abortion.
“It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated,” Britney wrote of the being pregnant within the ebook. “But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.”
The pair, who first met as Mouseketeers on Disney Channel’s “The Mickey Mouse Club”, went their separate methods in 2002, with Justin breaking apart with the Grammy winner over textual content message.
“I was so devastated,” Spears recounted. “I couldn’t speak for months.”
Timberlake has but to publicly handle the feedback Spears made about their relationship in her memoir.
