![]() But few knew the song's link to Spears' former friend. When "Everytime" was released two years later, many picked up on how it seemed to be Spears' own response to her split with Timberlake. For her, it just felt like another thing she and Spears were doing together as friends, she added. Spears wasn't actively working on an album at the time, and Artani said she had no expectations for the song to go anywhere. So I know that it was really hurting her." "The magnitude of the press and him putting his first album out and basically trashing her - the way it went down was really infantile. "That was such an important relationship for her," Artani said. The single debuted in 2002 and it took no time at all for the world to notice the song's connection to Spears. Timberlake wrote in his 2018 autobiography that he felt "scorned" and "pissed off" when he sat down to write "Cry Me a River" after his breakup with Spears. It was cathartic and a bonding experience." She added: "We cried through the whole process. "She sat next to me, and we basically wrote the song together." "And then at the end of all of that, we get to her house in LA - and I've been writing songs since I was 6 years old on the piano - but I sat at her piano and started writing 'Everytime,'" Artani said. The two became so close spending virtually every day together, Artani said, that they even shared a bed at night. "We were just doing silly stuff like making videos, dancing around to Madonna," Artani said during our 2019 call. Next, they flew to Italy, where the two spent several days at Donatella Versace's mansion on Lake Como. The two singers exchanged phone numbers, and before Artani knew it, she was attending New York Fashion Week with the pop star, she said. But we did and we bonded."Īfter the tour ended, Artani was - as she predicted - freshly single, she said. "So she was like, 'Well, you can hang out with me.' I didn't expect her to actually hang out with me. He ditched me,'" Artani said she told Spears. "I was like, 'Yeah, that's not going to last. Spears and Artani perform on July 13, 2002, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ![]() Instead, Artani eagerly recalled the sweeping excitement of being in her 20s and landing the gig of a lifetime as a background vocalist for Spears' 2002 "Dream Within a Dream Tour." The 45-year-old singer and children's book author was reluctant to dwell on her negative memories. She added: "It's one of the most significant experiences of my life, unfortunately." "That was my first experience of my friend essentially trying to bully me out of getting credit for a song we sat next to each other and wrote with our hearts when we were sobbing over men." "I mean, was I hurt? Yeah, I was a young girl," she said. Our conversation at the time was focused on the untold story of how "Everytime" was written and the dramatic falling out the two had after Artani said Spears' team seemed intent on cutting Artani's name from the legacy of the song.ĭuring that phone call, and again when we spoke last week, Artani expressed a variety of emotions that come up when she thinks back to how her intense friendship with Spears abruptly stopped. ![]() It often indicates a user profile.Ī photo of Artani and Spears provided to Insider by Artani. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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