“Maddie got to meet my cast ,” Spears says. It’s also the first step of introducing Jamie Lynn Spears 2.0, now a full-blown woman - but one who knows the power of nostalgia. The track follows a recent cast reunion and the announcement of an in-the-works reboot.

On Thursday, she will release a brand-new version of “Follow Me (Zoey 101),” the Zoey 101 theme song she wrote and recorded alongside big sister Britney Spears in 2004. “When she goes into ninth grade, someone's going to have to come rescue me, and I'm going to have to have another baby or something.” Mid-conversation, her husband of six years, Jamie Watson, a businessman she met through mutual friends in 2010, sticks his head into the room where Spears has set herself up for the afternoon somewhere else in the house is their 2-year-old daughter, Ivey.Īt this point, Spears simply doesn’t have time to have regrets.

“I have a seventh grader,” Spears exclaims, shaking her head in disbelief. Spears is 29 years old now her daughter Maddie is now 12. Talking over Zoom from her Louisiana home, wearing a pair of tie-dye sweatpants, she seems to be describing a distant memory from another time, one she has almost forgotten about. Nearly a decade and a half later, Spears recalls the height of her teenage fame with a bemused laugh. I remember sitting in this little room, and I think Lily Collins was there, and I felt so sick. Why would I do that?’ But I went and read for that role. “I remember just thinking like, ‘Y’all are insane. When she was 16 years old, coming off filming the last season of Zoey 101, the hit Nickelodeon comedy series that made her a household name among the tween set, her managers begged her to go on an audition for what was being heralded as an indie, supernatural romance film.

Jamie Lynn Spears doesn’t have any regrets, but she does have some what-ifs.

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