Ariana Grande’s music video for “The Boy Is Mine” options cameos from none instead of Brandy and Monica.
Brandy, 45, and Monica, 43, play news anchors in the video, which dropped on Friday, June 7. Their appearances are apt for the reason that they sang the original 1998 hit “The Boy Is Mine” in combination. The duet spent Thirteen weeks at the most sensible of the Billboard Hot A hundred after its unlock.
Grande’s “The Boy Is Mine” is a fully other song, however its title was once obviously impressed through Brandy and Monica’s single. The timing of its accompanying music video coincides with the anniversary of the OG song becoming a No. 1 single.
“This week, 26 years ago on June 5, 1998 THE BOY IS MINE reached #1 Billboard Hot 100 … History … Legacy @brandy,” Monica wrote by way of her Instagram Story on Friday along a photo of her and Brandy dressed all in black for Grande’s video.
The “Angel of Mine” singer additionally shared a clip from the music video in a subsequent tale, writing, “@arianagrande we love you.”
During the video’s intro, Monica and Brandy talk about Mayor Max Starling, performed by Penn Badgley, and the press convention he is about to offer. Badgley, 37, proceeds to present a televised speech about the town’s rat problem while a smitten Grande, 30, watches and prepares a love potion for the unsuspecting mayor.
“That’s f–king sensible. So scorching,” Grande says after Badgley proclaims the city’s plan to ship a coalition of stray cats after the pests.
Grande’s mousy, bespectacled personality then transforms into full-blown Catwoman wearing a leather-based mini dress and mask whilst sneaking into Badgley’s area to give him her love potion. But when Badgley unearths himself caught in Grande’s whip as she channels Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman from 1992’s Batman Returns, he is organically lovestruck. He throws the affection potion on the wall and the twosome comfortable up in combination in an condominium stuffed with cats because the credit roll.
Grande teased Badgley’s cameo all the way through a Thursday, June 6, appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
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“The video stars Penn Badgley who I’ve been a fan of my whole lifestyles, so it was once in order that wonderful to work with him,” she said, including that she was “super honored to have him” on board.
“The Boy Is Mine” is the third unmarried from Grande’s 7th studio album, Eternal Sunshine, which was once launched in March. Grande instructed Fallon, 49, on Thursday that she originally didn’t plan to unlock any other album until she finished capturing the upcoming movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked.
“When the [SAG-AFTRA] strike took place [in 2023], I went house to look my circle of relatives after all, first and predominant. … After that, I booked per week in the studio and I requested the brilliant [producer] Max Martin if he wanted to come be with me,” Grande defined. “And via the top of the week, we had five songs that are on this album.”
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