While Britney has been somewhat quiet about her upcoming album, one of her collaborators - P Diddy - has been chatting about his work with her, confirming Spears is aiming to go the Timberlake route and produce something a bit more grown up. He told MTV backstage at the VMAs last week: "We went in the studio and cooked up something hot for the dance floor, made something real sexy. It's going to be great." Diddy reckons the album will be more eclectic that the "trip-hop vibe" tag that has been used to describe new material by those on the insider - telling fans to expect ballads, dance tracks and Middle Eastern rhythms, "I think she's giving you a lot to work with. She's broke out of that just pop style, just being a pop artist. She's being a trendsetter. She has many styles. You don't know how she's going to come and hit you next."
Having revealed a little about the music Diddy went into praising mode: "As a performer, as an artist, as a songwriter, she ain't no slouch. It was great working with her. She was real quick, real quick. I wouldn't go into the studio with nothing that wouldn't motivate me. The way she did it her way, that motivated me to get with her and give her a bit of my flavor mixed with hers, to get her to do something combustionable."