Britney Spears And will.i.am's Track Screams It's 'Britney, Bitch'

Britney Spears and will.i.am's "Scream and Shout" cover art
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If anyone thought that Britney Spears and will.i.am wouldn't cook up a club banger for their latest collaboration, "Scream and Shout," you were very much wrong.

The track, off will's solo album #willpower, is an amped up dance-floor anthem, full of tempo changes, sassy one-liners and dubstep aplenty.

It opens with a chugging beat and Spears proclaiming in an accent, "When you hear this in the club, you're gonna turn this sh-- up/ When we up in the club all eyes on us/ See the boys in the club, they watchin' us/ Everybody in the club, all eyes on us."

While the song focuses on will's lyrics about having a good time in the club, true Britney-philes will go bananas over the chorus as it features a reference to Brit's "Gimme More." Brit's sweet singing voice harmonizes on the hook as they sing, "I wanna scream and shout and let it all out/ And scream and shout and let it out/ We sayin', 'Ohh, wee ohh, wee oh wee oh'/ We sayin', 'Ohh, wee ohh, wee oh wee oh'/ I wanna scream and shout and let it all out/ And scream and shout and let it out/ We sayin', 'Ohh, wee ohh, wee oh wee oh'."

The money line? "You are now-now rockin' with will.i.am and 'Britney bitch,' " the latter of which sounds like it is sampled right from the 2007 track.

The song leaked over the weekend, ahead of its official release on Monday (November 18). A video is still slated to drop on Thursday during "The X Factor," Billboard reports. "The young kids brought their game," will told the site about the forthcoming clip. "I don't want to say it's 'swag.' Because swag is... it's dope, but this is beyond swag. This is swag in reverse, which is gaws."

Britney teased that a remix may also be in the works when she tweeted about the leak on Twitter, thanking her fans for their support. "Can't say I'm thrilled our song leaked but...," she wrote. "I AM super excited that my fans seem to love it as much as @iamwill and I do."

"I'm so happy that people like #screanANDshout...thank you .@lazyjayofficial for the killer beat...," will added on his Twitter account. The track marks their second collaboration. They also worked together on her 2011 Femme Fatale track, "Big Fat Bass."

'Breaking Dawn - Part 2' Twist Ending: Writer And Director Explain All!

"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2"  

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Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.

Your prescient powers would have had to been on par with Alice Cullen's to have seen this coming: the shocking deaths of two Cullen coven vampires. Of course, it was all just part of an unfulfilled vision in the final moments of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2,", but it was a jaw-dropping twist nonetheless.

When MTV News caught up with screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and director Bill Condon in the lead up to the film franchise's finale, we had to get the inside scoop on how the blood-soaked battle came to be.

"Stephenie [Meyer] and I were up in Vancouver at a steak house — I remember very, very clearly," Rosenberg said. "She was still trying to decide if she wanted 'Breaking Dawn' to be a film because she was very concerned [about] how do you do that ending? In the book, the ending is very much a very tense confrontation, but it's resolved in the conversation, and of course, for a film that is a very challenging place to be. So both of us were trying to figure out how do we make that cinematic? It's just that back and forth, and the idea hits — wait a second, it's all happening in Alice's mind. It's actually referred to in the book, we just don't see it in the book. So the beauty of film, you get to see it."

And, as it turns out, this reimagined conclusion went a long way towards convincing Condon to sign on to the two-part finale.

"When I got involved that was already in the treatment, and I don't think I would have made the movie if it hadn't been there because I think it was a great, great adjustment to the book," he said. "And it's still true to the book, you know, because there is a reason for it happening and it doesn't change the outcome of what happens."

Yet, it was a lengthy process deciding which beloved characters would meet their untimely, yet temporary, demises. (For their parts, actors Peter Facinelli and Jackson Rathbone, who portray victims Carlisle Cullen and Jasper Hale, were good sports about being ripped to shreds.)

"For me, it was, who is the most shocking and whom — not whom do you love the most, but to me it's who gets the most bang for your buck?" Rosenberg recalled. "If you kill Carlisle, that's a lot of bang as opposed to someone you just met in this movie. I kind of tossed it around for a bit."

"We went back and forth," Condon agreed. "I spent three months [pre-visualizing] this before we shot anything. There were times where other people were dying ... Choosing which Cullen — it was maybe the sweetest of them [that] were the ones that bit the dust because it had the most emotional impact."