Britney Spears' Britney Jean album from last year had a long list of notable producers and songwriters to its credit — will.i.am executive produced it, with assistance from Dr. Luke, David Guetta, Diplo, Katy Perry, Sia and many others. But one name was missing from the final product: indie pop hero Devonté "Dev" Hynes aka Blood Orange.
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The Solange and Sky Ferreira-collaborator had worked on some songs for the album that he told the Guardian last year he was "actually so stoked about," but they didn't make the final cut. Those songs remain widely unheard until now, as Spin reports, when on Monday they were discovered on an anonymous SoundCloud user's page.