Ariana Grande Reunites Brandy And Monica, Recruits Penn Badgley For ‘The Boy Is Mine’ Music Video

The 30-year-old forged Gossip Woman alum Penn Badgley because the love curiosity within the clip, the place he stars because the fictional Mayor Max Starling — who guarantees to scrub up a metropolis infested with rats.

The Christian Breslauer-directed video beings with Grande getting ready a love potion in her dwelling, as the tv within the background cuts to information anchors performed by Brandy and Monica saying the Mayor’s press convention.

The 90’s singers, after all, additionally had a well-known 1998 monitor known as “The Boy Is Mine,” which Grande stated in an interview with Zane Lowe impressed her single. “I like that track,” Grande instructed Lowe in an Apple Music interview earlier this 12 months, “I’ve at all times wished to reimagine that in some type of method.”

Starling then broadcasts he” be releasing stray cats into town to assist with the rat drawback, which Grande thinks is a “good” thought earlier than turning into her personal model of Catwoman.

She tracks down Starling’s home and breaks into it as he’s getting learn for mattress, which he then finds her atop. Although he is initially frightened to search out her there and makes an attempt to go away, Grande cracks her whip and makes an attempt to slide him the love potion.

However earlier than he takes the drink, nevertheless, Starling takes off her masks to disclose her face — then throws the potion away as a result of he clearly does not want a love potion to fall in love with Grande. The video ends with the brand new couple having fun with their time collectively surrounded by cats.

Halle Berry, who performed Catwoman within the movie of the identical title, was clearly a fan — sharing a clip of the video to X with the caption, “Get it, Ari! Dwelling.”

The video comes after Grande appeared on the Thursday, June 6, episode of The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, the place she introduced Badgley can be starring within the music video.

“I have been a fan of him my total life so it was simply so wonderful to work with him, I’m such a fan tremendous honored to have him,” Grande instructed Fallon.

Grande dropped Everlasting Sunshine within the midst of selling her upcoming position as Glinda the Good Witch within the first a part of the long-awaited Depraved film musical, reverse Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba.

The primary installment of the movie is scheduled for November 27, with the sequel to observe on November 26, 2025.