Britney Spears Deletes Post Saying She’s ‘Upset’ About Halsey’s ‘Lucky’ Video: ‘Fake News’

Replace: Britney Spears took down her put up, including that it was “pretend information” and she or he wasn’t the one who posted it.

Britney Spears took to social media on Friday (July 26) to share her disappointment over Halsey’s music video for her new single “Fortunate,” which interpolates Spears’ 2000 tune of the identical title, in addition to Monica’s “Angel of Mine.”

”For apparent causes, I’m very upset in regards to the Halsey video,” Spears wrote in an announcement posted to X. “I really feel harassed, violated and bullied. I didn’t know an artist like her and somebody I regarded as much as and admired would illustrate me in such an ignorant method by tailoring me as a superficial pop star with no coronary heart or concern in any respect.”

Spears added that she will likely be reaching out to her attorneys, earlier than concluding, “It feels unlawful and down proper merciless.”

Within the music video, Halsey juxtaposes the lonely and typically superficial points of fame with the musical goals of her inside youngster, in addition to the well being issues they actively face.

“I shaved my head 4 instances as a result of I wished to/ After which I did it another time ’trigger I obtained sick,” she sings on the monitor. “I left the physician’s workplace filled with tears/ Grew to become a single mother at my premiere/ And I advised all people I used to be fantastic for a complete rattling 12 months/ And that’s the largest lie of my profession.” 

The video additionally finds Halsey modeling a crystal bodysuit to parallel Spears’ “Poisonous” visible and smiling for paparazzi on a purple carpet. She later removes the intense pink wig she’d been sporting all through the visible to disclose a shaved head earlier than sitting right down to obtain therapy by means of an IV. On the finish, she symbolically sits subsequent to the little woman who worships her, unaware of the complete story, on a swing set. 

Of her determination to pay tribute to Spears — who personally approvedthe “Fortunate” pattern, Halsey beforehand revealed — the “Nearer” artist tweeted, “I bear in mind the primary time I heard her sing fortunate and it hitting me at such a younger age that I had no thought what her life was actually like.”