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Britney Spears Imposter Actually The Voice On Pop Star’s Studio Album?

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4:43 pm, February 20th, 2013

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Britney Spears is a “fake,” claims Star.

The magazine thinks it has a major bombshell on its hands, reporting that Spears does not sing live during her concerts or on her studio albums.

Murray Langston, the father of a singer named Myah Marie, claims that his daughter is “actually the voice fans are hearing on their favorite Britney tracks.”

“My daughter sings for Britney Spears,” claims Langston. “The truth is, Myah can sound just like her. She has a knack.”

That part is true — Marie has an online following as a vocal talent who can sound similar to Spears, and she’s indeed served as a background voice on several of the pop star’s songs.

But then Langston — and Star — get carried away.

He tells the magazine, “They don’t want Myah to meet Britney — they make my daughter enter the studio through a back door to avoid a run-in.”

According to Langston, Marie “sang seven songs” on Spears’ 2011 album Femme Fatale, providing the real vocals without Spears’ knowledge.

“Maybe Britney doesn’t know whose voice is on her album and it doesn’t even interest her,” speculates Langston. “Maybe she just comes in, lays down the track and leaves, and doesn’t care.”

And maybe Star just listens to off-the-wall theories, prints them, and doesn’t care.

Because this story is 100 percent false — and Marie herself says so.

“While I am so grateful for the opportunity to provide background vocals for Britney Spears on a small number of her most recent works, I most certainly cannot take credit for her tremendous talent as a singer,” she said in a statement. “She is a veritable ‘living legend’ with a longstanding reputation for excellence in all aspects of her artistry. She is my idol and I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for her.”

In other words, the idea that she sneaks into the studio behind Spears’ back and records album tracks in her place is as ridiculous as it sounds.

A source close to Spears tells Gossip Cop the Star story is a “joke.”

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  • Regina1180

    Right, because if that was really going on, they wouldn’t make sure there are NDAs out there.

  • UFA

    Milli Vanilli did the exact same thing, for the record. The real singers were credited as background vocalists, brought into the studio as inconspicuously as possible, and weren’t allowed to meet Rob & Fab (the lipsynchers) in public. Charles Shaw, who did the rap on “Girl You Know It’s True”, spilled the beans to a couple papers and got paid off to retract his statements and claim he made them up. It wasn’t until the real singers AND the lipsynchers got fed up and started pressuring the producer that he let the cat out of the bag.

    That doesn’t prove Britney’s doing it now, but it does mean the concept isn’t as “ridiculous” as claimed here. If it is happening, and everyone involved is satisfied with the arrangement, we may never know for sure.

  • Scott

    “She is a veritable ‘living legend’ with a longstanding reputation for excellence in all aspects of her artistry.” Kudos to Marie for keeping a straight face while stating that.

  • IgnoranceIsBliss

    This story is so crazy! Said no one except the person writing this article. She doesn’t sing live, her voice is apparently ruined according to EVERYONE in the industry from drug abuse and smoking and this kind of thing happens constantly in the music industry. Just Crazy!

  • Natamaxxx

    Right, the statement she put out sounds NOTHING like something a P.R. rep would bang out in a minute and hand her along with a check to STFU and go away. “with a longstanding reputation for excellence in all aspects of her artistry”??? Seriously, that sentence alone is as standard P.R. boilerplate as it gets! There is probably a lot of truth to the fact that Britney needs a little help in the vocal department, and chances are that this girls vocals were used to “enhance” Britney’s. This girl’s contribution as a backing vocalist is most definitely greater than a few repeated verses in the background! I don’t see how anyone who’s actually heard Britney sing live thinks this is total bullshit. Especially the person that wrote this article who has an apparent hard-on for Britney herself, if the total abscence of objectivism in this article is any indication.

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