Britney Spears' hotly anticipated duet with Iggy Azalea, "Pretty Girls," is still over one month away, but we're finally getting new details about the Little Mix penned track. During a series of red carpet interviews at the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards, the "Trouble" rapper opened up about working with Spears on the new single and it's upcoming music video.
"[Working with Spears was] awesome. We collaborated so many months ago now, it's been a longtime in the making, figuring out whose album it's going to be on. It's going to be on hers and I'm super excited for it," Azalea told Access Hollywood.
Azalea also mentioned that she'll be co-directing the music video, which will shoot next week. Though she previously co-directed the videos for her Reclassified singles "Black Widow" and "Trouble," this will be her first time working on someone else's video. "It makes me super nervous! I just want to do her justice," Azalea said, noting that Spears has also offered her input on the music video and that the two text regularly about new concept ideas.
Azalea also opened up about the song with Extra producer Carlo DeSantis, noting that the song has gone through different forms before winding up as a true duet.
"'Pretty Girls' kind of already existed but we changed it a little bit more to fit in with Britney. I just did a verse on it." @IGGYAZALEA
— carlo de santis (@CandidlyCarlo) March 30, 2015
"Then I didn't hear anything back. So I was calling 'are we not doing the song?' And they said she does want the song....." @IGGYAZALEA — carlo de santis (@CandidlyCarlo) March 30, 2015
"...but we don't know when her album will come out. Then I said "I'll take the song and put it on my album and she can feature on it'"
— carlo de santis (@CandidlyCarlo) March 30, 2015
"Then I got another call that said no wait, she is ready to put the song out. She is ready with an album! So it's gonna be her first single" — carlo de santis (@CandidlyCarlo) March 30, 2015
"I had re-written it a little by then and made it more of a duet so it kind of worked out that it went through all this" @IGGYAZALEA
— carlo de santis (@CandidlyCarlo) March 30, 2015
"It worked out because now it's a true duet. It's not just me rapping one verse. It's really us together on the song." @IGGYAZALEA — carlo de santis (@CandidlyCarlo) March 30, 2015
"We both sing the hook together it's super cool and fun. I love that it's worked out this way because it's going to make for a cooler video"
— carlo de santis (@CandidlyCarlo) March 30, 2015
"Pretty Girls" will be released on May 5.
[h/t ONTD]
