Ariana Grande has released a new remix of her new song ‘The Boy Is Mine’, featuring ‘90s R&B royalty Brandy and Monica – listen to the track below.
Grande released the song in its original form earlier this month as the third single from her seventh studio album ‘Eternal Sunshine’, alongside a video starring You‘s Penn Badgley. Both Brandy and Monica also have cameo roles in the video, as news reporters.
Now, Grande has shared a new version of the song, featuring sultry additional vocals from the two singers. Watch the lyric video here:
The song has been described as a “reimagining” of the duo’s 1998 R&B classic of the same name, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 13 weeks and was the best-selling song of that year. It also remains the best-selling female duet of all time.
Writing about the new version on Instagram, Grande has said: “i ……… cannot believe this is real (i don’t know if i will even long after it’s out).”
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“My deepest and sincerest thank you to Brandy and Monica, not only for joining me for this moment, but for your generosity, your kindness, and for the countless ways in which you have inspired me.”
“It is near impossible to say how much this means to me. This is in celebration of you both and the impact that you have had on every vocalist, vocal producer, musician, artist that is creating today. I loooooove you both so so much. Thank you !!!!!!!”
See the video for the original track below.
In a four-star review of the ‘Eternal Sunshine’, NME shared: “It’s the most sophisticated project yet from a preternaturally talented vocalist who keeps getting better. Whatever you take away from it, ‘Eternal Sunshine’ definitely isn’t an album you’ll want to wipe from memory.”
In other Ariana news, she recently defended herself from criticism after footage of her switching her speaking voice went viral.
She has also spoken about the “devastating” revelations from the Nickelodeon Quiet On Set docuseries, which detailed behind-the-scenes scandals at the children’s television channel.
Grande starred in Victorious and Sam & Cat on the channel as a teenager, and has made the argument for therapists to be “mandatory” on all children’s television show sets.
“I think the environment needs to be made safer if kids are going to be acting, and I think there should be therapists,” she said. “I think parents should be allowed to be wherever they want to be, and I think not only on kids’ sets.”
“If anyone wants to do this, or music, or anything at this level of exposure, there should be in the contract something about therapy is mandatory twice a week or thrice a week, or something like that.”