Ice Spice Unveils Upcoming Track ‘Pretty Girl’ Featuring Rema: Mark Your Calendars for the Release Date
Ice Spice photographed on April 19, 2023 in New York. Christian Cody
Ice Spice is joining Rema for her following solitary, “Pretty Girl” — and it’s showing up faster than you assume.
The 23-year-old rap artist went down the information in a Wednesday early morning (Oct. 11) Instagram message, sharing the vibrantly tinted paint that might work as the track’s cover art. “pretty girl ft rema this friday,” she captioned the message.
Rema, that’s still fresh off the launch of his late September duet with Feid “BUBALU,” additionally shared the statement in his Instagram Stories.
Ice is ending up being something of a serial partner, having actually partnered with Taylor Swift on “Karma,” PinkPantheress on “Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2,” Lil Tjay on “Gangsta Boo” and two times with Nicki Minaj for both “Princess Diana” and “Barbie World” for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie — all launched this year. Rema is additionally a skilled co-creator, many notoriously employing Selena Gomez for their Billboard Hot 100 No. 3 blockbuster “Calm Down” in 2014.
The Ice and Rema’s brand-new solitary will certainly get here simply someday prior to she makes her Saturday Night Live debut, functioning as music visitor on the funny program’s period 49 best on Oct. 14. Former cast participant Pete Davidson will certainly hold the episode, which will certainly note SNL‘s first since shutting down in May due to the recently resolved writers’ strike.
The “Munch” musician lately opened regarding her star-studded listing of partners while beautifying the cover of Variety, sharing that she’s expanded close with Minaj and Swift, and regularly messages both. The “Anti-Hero” vocalist, whom Ice carefully calls her “sis,” told the publication that the rap artist’s “dedication and focus” blew her away “from the very start.”
“She’s extremely professional without being cold,” the pop celebrity included. “Playful and fun without ever taking her eye off the prize. She knows what is and isn’t ‘her’ and sets those boundaries with grace.”
Ice additionally addressed the controversial moment Matty Healy made improper comments regarding her on the Adam Friedland podcast this year, exposing that she and The 1975 frontman apologized behind the scenes. “When I had heard that little podcast or whatever, I was so confused,” she admitted. “Because I heard ‘chubby Chinese lady’ or some s–t like that, and I’m like, ‘Huh? What does that even mean?’”
“But then they apologized or whatever,” she included. “And the whole time, I didn’t really care … I saw [Healy] at the Jean Paul Gaultier party a couple days ago, and he was like, ‘Hey, you OK?’ and I’m like, ‘Of course.’ He apologized to me a bunch of times. We’re good.”
See Ice Spice’s statement for her Rema collab listed below:
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