Elton John is very happy about his collaboration with Britney Spears.
“It seems to have gone off to a really good start,” he said of their collaboration. “And I’m really happy for Britney, especially because having her on this record is such a gas, for start, but this is someone who has been through hell, who needed some love in her life, a lot of love from a lot of people and she’s getting it. And it couldn’t go to a better cause than her at the moment.”
Talking about getting Spears to work with him on the song, John revealed, “I think she was very reticent at first, because I think she was nervous,” but added, “And she did it so well and so easily. And I’m sure a lot of people thought, ‘Well can she still sing?’ Well, I knew for a start that she could sing because if you go back and look at the old footage, she was the biggest artist in the world and she could sing, she could dance, she could do everything. So I wasn’t worried about that.
“She hasn’t been in the charts for a long time, but she’s warming up, she’s defrosting, as I say, and she’s having a great time,” he said. “And I don’t know when I’m going to see her or when I’m going to talk to her next, but it doesn’t really matter. The more the record does, the more it will help her heal. And she will realize that people are so fond of her and that they have missed her. They feel for her.