Fed Up: Britney Spears Strikes Back at Paparazzi with New Album

Sounds like Britney Spears has had enough and is ready to fight back -- at least through her upcoming album.

Britney Strikes Back (Image: CBS)

"She wrote a song with me that's kind of introspective about how people and the paparazzi are constantly following her around," reports the latest "It" megaproducer, J.R. Rotem, who's been in the studio almost daily with Spears, who is expecting her second child.
 
Just as an innocent bystander, Rotem says the media frenzy that follows Spears "is annoying.

Their life is crazy. I'm also working with K-Fed, her husband, quite a bit on some hip hop stuff, and literally every time he comes over, he's followed by like five to eight paparazzi trucks. They just camp out in front of my place while we work and try to take pictures of anything. They cannot go anywhere without being followed. It's amazing and very aggravating."
 
The classically trained pianist -- who's masterminded some 60 hit tunes in the last year alone for the likes of Mya, Busta Rhymes, Talib Kweli and Rihanna (cq all) whose single, "S.O.S.(Rescue Me)" just rocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts -- says he and Spears are "working on about three or four different songs at the same time." He adds, "She's definitely touching on subjects that have to do with her everyday life … being married and having a baby and what her life is now will be reflected in the album, but it's going to be a combination. Britney's the Queen of Pop, and she's not going to go off on some weird tangent. We're also doing the club kind of stuff, that's very pop, dance with hip-hop. It's like next-level Britney. Her fans are not going to be disappointed."
 
SKY'S THE LIMIT:

Shooting the intense aerial dogfight scenes for the upcoming Word War I drama "Flyboys" definitely separated the boys from the men, reports Tyler Labine, who plays a fighter pilot in the film that also stars James Franco, Martin Henderson and Jean Reno.
 
"Before we went up the first time, they said, 'Are you guys OK with going up?' and everyone was like 'Yeah,'" recalls Labine, best known as the scruffy conspiracy theorist on the ABC's "Invasion." "But there were a lot of people -- I won't name names -- that did not have a very easy time. There were people puking, a lot of them freaking out . . . " Labine says he was surprised how well he handled it all. "I was in the backseat of an open cockpit bi-plane with the cameras trained on me doing barrel rolls and loops. It was cool. The guy who flew the plane said I handled it the best out of all the guys. I mean there's a certain amount of nervousness at first and the thought that 'Yeah, I could die.' But you don't focus on that. And I'm a bit of a thrill junkie. It was like 'I'm up here in the sky now!' Nothing can touch you, you almost feel insignificant. I could have stayed up there all day."
 
He says the characters in director Tony Bill's "Flyboys" "are all based on real people. It's at the point in the first World War before America had joined the British and French efforts. Flying was such a new thing; these young Americans traveled abroad just to learn to fly. The story is that none of them really grasped what it was going to be like in a war of that magnitude."
 
THE BIG SCREEN SCENE:

After 17 seasons of "The Simpsons," the man with many voices, Hank Azaria, tells us he's excited that the popular cartoon is coming to the big screen. "I've already signed like 18 confidentiality agreements. I think they have rights to my first-born child if I talk about this movie," he says.
 
Azaria admits it's been tough at times balancing the voice work with his Showtime series, "Huff," and his long run in the Broadway show "Spamalot." "It's been hard when I have had down time and I have to use that time to do 'The Simpsons," so sometimes it's a bit of a strain to do that, but I love it unequivocally. To be part of such a cultural phenomenon is incredible," he gushes. "We recently got picked up for two more years. We're in the beginning of recording season 18, which will start airing next fall, and I know we'll do one more season after that," adds Azaria. "It's weird. You'd think they would want to do season 20 if we make it to 19. It's just a nice even number."
 
CAUSE CELEB:

Mira Sorvino would like us to point out that the recent sold-out Amnesty International concert to aid Darfur, which she helped coordinate -- featuring artists including Tom Morello from Audioslave, Incubus, Collective Soul and Suzanne Vega -- is more than a memory. It's still generating funds, with an auction underway of Fender Guitars signed by the artists, plus a variety of other items, from vintage rosary necklaces from Rome donated by Traffic, to Timberland shirts and Victoria's Secret items. The website is www.musicforhumanrights.com.

(With reports by Stephanie DuBois and Emily Feimster)