Well, this is embarrassing. So we'd rounded up some gossip items the other day about America's sweetheart, Britney Spears: we mentioned a "leaked song" on YouTube that seemed to be her "Cry Me A River" to K-Fed, and we linked to Jeannette Walls' report that Brit seemed preggish. After Variety broke the story yesterday, Fox News reported that the former claim, at least, is untrue: "That is NOT her vocal, that is NOT a song on her forthcoming album," Jive rep Gina Orr is quoted as saying. Today's Page Six brought the Variety quotes to the non trade reading masses:

The tune was penned by songwriters Adam and Jesse Blockton and sung by Amy Miles. "We wrote it a month ago and based [it] on Britney's separation with [Kevin] Federline with the intention that she might pick it up," Adam told Variety. "People believe that it's her."

Well, yeah, 'people' did, but looking back, 'people' really should have known better. We mean, we've been to karaoke, we know how easy it is to sound like Britney (the key is a lot of improvised "uh-huh" and "yeahyeahyeah, ungh," we find). Also, deep lyrics like "I'm sorry/I won't apologize" seemed a bit out of Brit's league.

Update: Idolator went the extra mile for the story and hunted down Amy Miles's MySpace. Amy Miles is the new Britney Spears, y'all!

Britney Spears 'Fed Up With K-Fed. Or Not. [Fox News]
Bogus Britney [Page Six]
Britney's New Single Not Hers [Variety]