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The song's verses follow the guitar-plus-two-step-beat template of Craig David's hits, or 'N Sync's ''Gone,'' with Britney delivering rapid-fire lyrics in a whispery moan: ''I'm lying here in your arms and you hold me tight/tryin' not to watch the clock tick-tickin' as the time goes by.'' On the chorus (''You're leaving/ I'm waiting/ Forgive me/ I'm always missing you/ before the goodbye,'') the song kicks into a Hi-NRG beat that falls somewhere between ''Ray of Light''-era Madonna and any track on your local pop station's Saturday night remix show.
BT, who's proud of the song, says he was stunned when he heard that Britney had slammed his work as ''not good enough'' for her album in a telephone press conference last year. ''The tracks that he ended up doing for me didn't fit me and the kind of music that I was going for,'' Spears said, according to various reports. Says BT: ''I don't know what the hell that was all about. I saw that [comment], but I find it totally hard to believe that she said that. Because we're totally cool -- I see her and stuff and we hang out.'' BT says Spears told him that she was misquoted. ''That's come up and she's like, I didn't say that, that's total bulls---.''
In any case, the apparent diss from the world's biggest pop star hasn't slowed down BT's career; he's in talks to produce another major artist, whose name he can't yet reveal, and he collaborated with the Roots for a track on the ''Blade 2'' soundtrack. That song will also appear on an upcoming BT solo album that's set to feature vocals from Filter's Richard Patrick, among others. But if the guest stars don't work out, BT can always say they just weren't good enough.
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