Six weeks after meeting Britney Spears, J Balvin is finally revealing what happened the night he and Maluma enjoyed a late-night sushi dinner with her at private club Zero Bond in Manhattan’s Noho neighborhood.
‘We told her how proud we are about her,’ the 38-year-old Grammy nominee told E! News on Tuesday.
‘You know, like she’s part of us, and we were in love with her. No matter what position you are in music you gotta give respect for what they have done.’
J (first name José) said he would ‘absolutely’ collaborate with the 41-year-old Grammy winner and remarked: ‘I saw her in really good spirit.’
At first, Britney wrote that she ‘had no idea who these boys were’ but three days later she gushed of the Colombian reggaeton stars: ‘Holy s*** it just hit me. I can’t believe I met these 2! Holy smokes!’
Meanwhile, 29-year-old Maluma (born Juan Luis Londoño Arias) had gushed of his Spears encounter: ‘Quien asà como yo en el amor?’ or ‘Who like me in love?’
The talented twosome have collaborated on four songs – Con Flow Matalo (2012), X Remix (2018), Qué Pena (2019), and Porfa Remix (2020).
Zero Bond – aka ‘Oh, Bond’ – stretches over 20K square feet on two floors and it was originally founded by Scott Sartiano in 2020.
Membership costs varies depending your age – folks under 28 pay a $750 initiation fee and $2,750 annually, folks 28-45 pay a $1K initiation fee and $3,850 annually, and over 45 pays a $5K initiation fee and $4,400 annually.
The semi-retired pop star’s critically-acclaimed memoir The Woman In Me has spent an impressive three weeks atop the New York Times’ Bestsellers Non-Fiction list.
Simon & Schuster paid Britney a $12.5M advance (25% of the net profits) to pen the 288-page tell-all with three alleged ghostwriters – Ada Calhoun, Sam Lansky, and Luke Dempsey.
Last month, Deadline reported that ‘buyers are circling’ Spears’ autobiography to make bids on the rights to make a potential limited TV series based on the book.
On the personal front, the Hold Me Closer hitmaker’s third husband Sam Asghari filed for divorce from her in August after just 13 months of wedded bliss, but he did sign a prenuptial agreement.