Updated 11:11 a.m. ET Thursday
An unedited vocal version of a song from Britney Spears’ 2013 album, Britney Jean, leaked on July 2, and it didn’t sound good. After the untouched track of “Alien” (above) made the rounds over the holiday weekend, track producer William Orbit released a statement on Facebook saying that the track was a vocal warm-up and not the final product:
The leaked track was removed from YouTube by Thursday morning.
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