Frenzy Over Fake Britney Song Indicates That People May Still Be Interested In Her Music

In an unsurprising turn of events, the alleged Britney Spears song that we posted the other day turned out to be a phony, and now it’s disappeared from YouTube altogether. From Variety:

Since “Fed Up” was posted on You Tube Wednesday, the clip has received more than half a million hits. By Thursday, the song was getting radio play and ring tones were available for download.

As fans praised the song and radio jocks debated the track’s authenticity, one problem remained — it wasn’t her. “Fed Up,” in fact, was penned in two days by Gotham-based songwriter/musicians Adam and Jesse Blockton and sung by Amy Miles.

“We wrote it a month ago and based on the Britney’s separation with Federline with the intention that she might pick it up,” said Adam Blockton, former frontman for the Gotham rock outfit Motherboard. “Now it’s already out there and whoever leaked it is giving the impression that it’s her singing. And people believe that it’s her.”

Blockton has no idea how it ended on You Tube. According to him, a handful of demos, which included five tracks recorded over a two-week period, were passed among friends, one of which was informally submitted with Jive Records, Spears’ label.

Miles wasn’t interviewed for the article, which is too bad; judging by her earlier songs, the Britney mimicry was a bit of an artistic stretch for her, and we’d love to hear how she tried to channel the beleaguered pop star for her performance. A Cheetos-and-Malibu gargle before the vocal take, perhaps?

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