Monica and Brandy reunited onscreen earlier this month for Ariana Grande’s music video “the boy is mine,” her tackle their hit 1998 track of the identical title.
The previous inventive collaborators reunited as soon as once more on Grande’s “the boy is mine (Remix),” which was launched on Friday. The up to date model of the track options Monica and Brandy’s vocals and helped the singers come again collectively.
“The method of the brand new collaboration did numerous closing the gaps,” Monica advised Leisure Tonight about working with Brandy once more. “If you correctly talk one thing, yow will discover not solely the resolutions and options to issues. However typically you discover that there weren’t ever issues, simply constant miscommunications,” including, “It made it loads simpler simply to speak.”
Since working collectively on Grande’s remix, Monica famous she and Brandy have talked extra in current weeks than they’d in within the final 20 years.
“We acknowledged that the important thing was to maintain different folks out of our relationship, each enterprise and private, and let or not it’s between she and I, and that has modified all the things,” Monica advised the publication. “It’s modified the trajectory of it in its totality. My son was within the hospital the opposite day, and he or she was who I used to be chatting with whereas he was there, so I believe that’s what Ariana has performed that she might not even notice.”
Now that Monica and Brandy have labored collectively once more, there’s no stopping them from persevering with to collaborate on music in any case this time, with Monica noting there’s actually an opportunity.
“It’s crew ‘The Boy Is Mine‘ at present, tomorrow, and for the final 25 years,” she added. “We’ve numerous catching as much as do within the sense of giving the viewers what they actually needed from us even again then. We didn’t discover a technique to do it then, however we’re discovering a technique to do it now.”
Previous to the discharge of the remix, Monica had been very vocal about not wanting her and Brandy’s 1998 monitor to be touched or remade by anybody however them. Nevertheless, she revealed that when she heard Grande and producer Max Martin’s model, she instantly fell in love with it. She and the “we will’t be mates” singers even had FaceTime periods whereas they had been engaged on the track, which ended up together with their households.
Regardless of rumors that Monica and Brandy had been at odds, Monica beforehand advised The Hollywood Reporter that she and her former collaborator had been “greater than good” and had been for fairly a while.
She famous that numerous what folks might have heard about them was from after they had been youngsters however as a grown girl now, she has nothing however love and admiration for Brandy. She additionally admitted she wished the rumors would go away.
“I want folks would cease placing the 2 in opposition to one another,” she advised THR throughout a dialog celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of “The Boy Is Mine.” “I want folks would cease trying to match who sings higher, who appears to be like higher, who outdid the opposite one, as a result of I by no means got here into the house with a spirit of competitors anyway. … I want folks would simply let or not it’s that and never even examine the 2 or create any animosity, even inside our fan teams.”