Halsey has responded after Britney Spears claimed she felt “harassed, violated and bullied” by her new video.
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The New Jersey singer has just dropped her new track ‘Lucky’ alongside a Gia Coppola-directed video, which interpolates the classic 2000 Spears hit with her blessing.
However, Spears wrote she was “very upset” by the video, which references past outfits Spears has worn but portrays Halsey’s health struggles. Halsey revealed she had been diagnosed with Lupus and T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder in June this year.
“I feel harassed, violated, and bullied,” Spears wrote in a now-deleted post. She also threatened legal action against Halsey and called her “downright cruel”, adding: “I didn’t know an artist like her and someone I looked up to and admired would illustrate me in such an ignorant way by tailoring me as a [superficial] pop star with no heart or concern at all.
“I have my own health problems which is why I took down my IG account yesterday. I will definitely be putting it back up to show I CARE.”
However, Spears later walked back her statement on X/Twitter, with her writing: “Fake news !!! That was not me on my phone !!! I love Halsey and that’s why I deleted it 🌹 !!!”
In response to Spears’ tweet, Halsey responded: “I love Britney!!!! I always have and always will you were the first person who ever made me realize what it means to feel inspired. And you continue to inspire me everyday.”
Halsey has previously spoken out about her decision to interpolate the sample when teasing the song, writing: “When I was five, it always felt like Britney was singing directly to me. 24 years later, these words hit different. Love you forever.”
So far, the singer has also released another track called ‘The End’ and said she was “lucky to be alive” after experiencing difficulties with her health.
“I feel like an old lady,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “I told myself I’m giving myself two more years to be sick. I’m 30, I’m having a rebirth and I’m not going to be sick, I’m going to look super hot and have lots of energy and I’m just going to get to redoing my twenties and my thirties.”
“long story short, i’m Lucky to be alive. short story long, i wrote an album,” she wrote in the caption. “it begins with The End. out now.”
In other news, Britney Spears has told The Osbournes to “kindly fuck off” after criticism over her “dancing” videos.