Jive Records To Drop Britney Spears?

[SpezialK]

Jive Records To Drop Britney Spears? (http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2007/01/05/jive-records-to-drop-britney-spears/)

http://www.imnotobsessed.com/image/okbritdesp.jpg

Britney Spears has had a rough couple of months. But she really isn’t THAT different than the rest of young Hollywood (http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2007/01/05/jive-records-to-drop-britney-spears/#). So why would Jive Records decide to drop her album (http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2007/01/05/jive-records-to-drop-britney-spears/#) and HER from their label? They believe her record won’t sell because of all this bad press. Britney’s management is insisting that she is over this “rocky period” and is telling her to keep singing. But Cindy Adams has a source that claims Jive is going to officially give Brit Brit the ax any day now. When contacted Jive records had a different story. A rep said, “Jive’s relationship with Britney is fine. She continues to be one of our biggest worldwide artists (http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2007/01/05/jive-records-to-drop-britney-spears/#) and we remain 1,000 percent committed to her career.” So who knows? We will just have to wait and see.
But sources tell us Spears faces imminent axing by her music (http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2007/01/05/jive-records-to-drop-britney-spears/#) label, Jive Records, which is “going to drop her any day now.” That word follows our colleague Cindy Adams‘ report on Wednesday that Jive execs have decided “to drop [the album] - and her.” Spears spent hours in Jive’s New York studios last month, but produced sub-par tracks. In addition, her hard-partying ways have damaged her image. Spears’ manager, Larry Rudolf, insisted yesterday that she’d revamp her image and continue to record, citing her “rocky period” as an excuse for her “unacceptable” behavior. But insiders believe the album will never hit shelves. “Like the rest of us,” said the source, “Jive is done with Britney Spears.” (source (http://www.nypost.com/seven/01052007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm))
UPDATE: ABC News has the full statement from Jive which promises an album release during the second half of this year:
Contrary to media (http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2007/01/05/jive-records-to-drop-britney-spears/#) reports, Jive’s relationship with Britney Spears is fine,” a Jive spokesperson said. “She continues to be one of our biggest worldwide artists, and we remain 1000 percent committed to Britney’s career. She is currently in the middle of recording a terrific new album that we are very excited about releasing it in the second half of this year.” (source (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=2771152&page=1))
For the full scans of OK magazine’s latest article on Britney, click here (http://www.britneyres.com/thumbnails.php?album=2143).

http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2007/01/05/jive-records-to-drop-britney-spears/

[SpezialK]

Britney Spears may look disheveled from too much partying, but rumors of her professional demise are premature.
Sources inside Jive Records tell me that despite stories last week about the pop tart being dropped by her label, nothing is further from the truth.
"Britney is safe. She's been recording since even before the blow up with Kevin Federline," says my source. “She’s working with a lot of different producers. Jive is not dropping her.”
Indeed, with the current crazy climate in the record biz, Jive wouldn’t be very smart if they let go of a known commodity.
“Let’s put it this way,” says an insider, “she’s just a hit away from being back. Why drop her now?”
Dropping Britney would also be a terrible PR move for Jive right now, too. To turn against a single mother of two — even if she is a party girl — would not play well in the public’s mind. If Courtney Love can make a comeback, then Britney Spears certainly can.
The source continues: “If you think back to her last record, everyone said she was finished then. The word was that Pink would have the hit album, and that Britney was over. In the U.S., at least, that didn’t happen. It was the reverse. Britney had a monster album.”
So Spears is off the hook for the time being. But patience can wear thin even in the mercurial music biz. So she’d better get back in the studio and get serious fast.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242319,00.html#1