Next week’s issue of US Magazine has a short piece about Britney’s upcoming album with insights from Kara DioGuardi who, apparently, has been working with Britney before and after rehab. The piece is titled “Her New Album: Update” and here’s the text:

Rehab had a big effect on Spears’ music. According to songwriter Kara DioGuardi (she cowrote Christina Aguilera’s “Ain’t No Other Man”), who worked with the pop star last fall and again on May 7, “She’s been changing stuff since she’s gone back in the studio.” And DioGuardi is impressed. “She elevates a song with her personality. She always gives great ideas and melodies.” Despite those lip-synced concerts, DioGuardi calls Spears “a really good singer,” and tells US “When she gets in her zone, forget it!”

NOTE: Scans of this entire article are here.

[via US MAGAZINE]

The upcoming issue of US Magazine has a rather large coverage of Britney’s comeback show in Florida and her progress in general. Here’s the scans:

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A smiling Britney left the Epitome Spa in Beverly Glen yesterday hopping into her convertible mini-cooper, not before she took a minute to smile at the photographers and chew a nail or two.

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Earlier this month Britney Spears appeared topless on her site’s homepage with a message to the fans. Today Britney is back with just another topless message.

Britney writes:

Dear Fans,

I just wanted to reach out to all of you and explain some of the things that I have been faced with recently.

It’s so funny how many stories are put out there about people. It’s like we all want our side of the story out there as well, but at the end of the day only a few people care to hear what is really going on since the bad is always so much more interesting than the truth. I don’t know why, but this is so weird to me. I used to be angry at the tabloids for printing horrible things about me, but now I try to just be numb to what I see. I saw Tyra Banks once get really upset and cry on her show because they made her look fat. We all want a certain image of ourselves out there, and at some point we all do really care what other people think or we wouldn’t be here.

Recently, I was sent to a very humbling place called rehab. I truly hit rock bottom. Till this day I don’t think that it was alcohol or depression. I was like a bad kid running around with ADD. I had a manager from a long time ago come in and try to direct me and my life after I got my divorce. I was so overwhelmed I think that I was in a little shock too. I didn’t know who to go to. I realized how much energy and love I had put into my past relationship when it was gone because I genuinely did not know what to do with myself, and it made me so sad. I confess, I was so lost.

This letter is to not place blame on anyone, although I do see the world with a completely different set of eyes now. Being in that vulnerable state and taken to dinners and parties with friends and finding out later you paid for everything was a huge learning lesson for me. I think the whole problem was letting too many people into my life. You never know another persons intentions or what another person wants. I feel I was too open and looking for answers when I had it all to begin with. I have had to cut so many people out of my life. It is so sad, because if anyone is a family person…it is me. When I was little I remember every night watching movies with my family and feeling so at peace. Dancing and singing all the time just like a little girl should. Now recently I find with my children that I want them to have that feeling all of the time. I am having to face a lot of things right now since I have children of my own. A lot of insecurities from when I was little are coming up again. It is like we are never good enough.

I know everyone thinks that I am playing the victim, but I am not and I hate what is going on right now so much. Maybe this is the reason for this letter…to maybe allow people to look at me differently. It is like when you are a real woman and say what you feel and how you think things are supposed to be, that people just say you are a “bitch.”

I feel like some of the people in my life made more of some issues than was necessary. I also feel like they knew I was beginning to use my brain for a change and cut some ties, so they wanted to be in more control of my life than me. I think it is actually normal for a young girl to go out after a huge divorce. I think it was a bigger issue because I had not gone out in such a long time. I am 25 and I do still have a lot to learn, and I am going to make mistakes everyday, and I am sure every mistake I make will probably be on CNN or Good Morning America. I am only human people and I love you for still loving me.

I am sitting here at home and it is 6:25 and both of my sons are asleep. I am truly blessed to have them in my life. Everyday is so surreal. Life in general is so surreal and crazy.
I just hope this letter made some of you think a little bit more of me and where I am coming from. I just want the same things in life that you want…and that is to be happy. It is just so weird because everyone has their own perception of me and how they think I really am. It is so weird how stories are told. There is your side, my side, and the truth. Somebody has to figure it out. I guess we will never really understand or figure out life completely. That’s God’s job. I can’t wait to meet him…or her.

Love, Britney

Quote of the month…
It is ok to disagree with people regarding certain issues. You’re not being true to yourself if you succumb to others opinions because you feel guilty.

After a few days of being under her rock, Britney Spears finally came out over the holiday weekend as seen in this pics:

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This set is off Britney Spears’ concert in Miami, Fl last weekend (5/20/07).

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If those who can’t do, teach, then what do those who can’t get a headline do? You got it, bash Britney…

Avril Lavigne had opened up her mouth again, this time it was for CosmoGirl replying her idea that she (unlike Britney) is the perfect example of how to maintain your private life, private. She said “Britney and Ashlee, they’re really exposed in the tabloids, but you can control that. With Deryck and I being two celebrities in Hollywood, we could be all over those magazines if we wanted to. Some people do that-they go to every red carpet event. [All that stuff] is kind of silly. I have a career. I only go somewhere if I really need to go.”

Well you know what, at first she criticized Britney for using her body to promote her career, and then she went topless (Avril Lavigne) for Blender magazine because it was getting her attention. So what’s next for this sell-out singer? who the #@$ck cares!

This video has been going on and off YouTube for a few hours now, so until it is taken off enjoy it. It shows Britney performing “Do Something” (with the skipping part) and then “Toxic”.

Britney and Ali went cruising in the streets of South Beach (Miami) before Britney’s show on Saturday, May 19th. They paid a visit to the local sunglasses store, tanning salon, and word has it that Brit had picked up another tattoo (WTH?).

Here’s some more pics of Brit and Ali out and about in Souch Beach:

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Britney Spears in a hot bikini at Miami Beach after her concert yesterday:

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More pictures coming soon…

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