The boy is theirs! As followers throughout generations enjoyment of Ariana Grande‘s new “The Boy Is Mine” remix with Brandy and Monica, the Grammy-winning “So Gone” star is opening up about how the star-studded collaboration sparked true therapeutic for her and Brandy.
“The method of the brand new collaboration did a whole lot of closing the gaps,” Monica informed Leisure Tonight. “Whenever you correctly talk, one thing — you will discover not solely the resolutions and options to issues — however generally you discover that there weren’t ever issues, simply constant miscommunications.”
Brandy and Monica teamed up for the unique “The Boy Is Mine” again in 1998, spending 13 weeks atop the Billboard Sizzling 100 and successful a Grammy collectively within the course of. In the course of the tune’s reign and within the years that adopted, the 2 R&B icons have been long-rumored to be beefing, with their rocky relationship changing into a key a part of the tune’s lore. Now, greater than 25 years after “The Boy Is Mine” first entered the up to date American pop canon, the 2 singers have discovered a method to transfer ahead and protect their friendship.
“We acknowledged that the important thing was to maintain different individuals out of our relationship, each enterprise and private, and let it’s between she and I, and that has modified the whole lot. It’s modified the trajectory of it in its totality,” the “Angel of Mine” singer stated. “My son was within the hospital the opposite day and she or he was who I used to be chatting with whereas he was there, so I believe that’s what Ariana has finished that she might not even notice.”
Grande initially launched “The Boy Is Mine” from her Billboard 200-topping Everlasting Sunshine LP earlier this yr, with the observe immediately changing into a fan-favorite. Upon the album’s debut, “The Boy Is Mine” entered the Sizzling 100 at No. 16. This week (chart dated June 22), the tune re-entered the Sizzling 100 at No. 64, following the discharge of its Catwoman-inspired Penn Badgley-starring music video. The cinematic clip additionally featured cameos from Brandy and Monica, giving followers just a little Easter egg for the brand new remix. Grande’s observe is impressed by Brandy and Monica’s unique duet — which Billboard named the best karaoke duet of all time — however the remix does interpolate components from the hook of the 1998 chart-topper.
“I’ve at all times stated that the tune shouldn’t be touched, proper? And I stated that as a result of I felt that it didn’t should be redone within the thought of, let’s say, really doing it the precise means that it was,” Monica defined. “However Ariana and [producer] Max Martin — as quickly as I heard this model, I fell in love with it.”
In response to Monica — who just lately headlined the inaugural Blavity Home Social gathering in Nashville — Grande despatched her flowers and a be aware. The “We Can’t Be Buddies” singer additionally hopped on FaceTime with Monica, Brandy and their respective households. “What I’m so amazed by is her humility, her compassion,” Monica gushed. “All the things has been instantly from her chest and, for me, authenticity, humility, all of these issues are key.”
The brand new remix marks the Grande’s second re-imagining of an Everlasting Sunshine observe. Earlier this yr, the Grammy-winner linked up with Mariah Carey for a brand new model of her house-steeped Sizzling 100 chart-topper “Sure, And?”