Ariana Grande is offering individuals what they desire. While taking a seat with Zane Lowe for an Apple Music 1 meeting published Thursday (March 7) — simply eventually in advance of the launch of her brand-new cd Eternal Sunshine — the 30-year-old pop celebrity clarified exactly how among her brand-new tunes, “The Boy Is Mine,” discovers her taking on the duty of a “bad girl” for her followers’ paying attention enjoyment.
“It’s kind of like, okay, ‘I’ll play the bad girl, here’s your bad girl anthem,’” Grande informed Lowe, keeping in mind that an additional track, “True Story,” establishes audiences up for “The Boy Is Mine.”
The Grammy champion additionally discussed the track’s evident callback to Brandy and Monica’s renowned hit of the very same name, which ruled atop the Billboard Hot 100 for 13 weeks in 1998. “I love that song,” Grande claimed. “I’ve always wanted to reimagine that song in some kind of way.”
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“I kind of was like, ‘This is a very bad idea, I think, but there is a large group of my fans that really, they do love a bad girl anthem,’” she proceeded. “And this is kind of an elevated version of that.”
The Victorious alum additionally verified that “The Boy Is Mine” will certainly include cannibalized components of “Fantasize,” an unreleased track that dripped — and immediately went viral — on TikTok in 2014. “I kind of gave them Ariana’s version of that on the album,” she formerly informed Zach Sang of the remodelled ’90s-passionate jam. “They’re completely different now. So although you’ve heard them — because [someone] stole them — they’re very different now.”
Grande has actually just launched one solitary in advance of Eternal Sunshine: “Yes, And?,” which gained the vocalist her 8th occupation No. 1 on the Hot 100 in January. One might say that she plays the “bad girl” a little on that particular track too, with verses such as, “Your business is yours and mine is mine/ Why do you care so much whose d-ck I ride?”
Watch Grande’s Apple Music 1 meeting over.
