Ariana Grande is giving the individuals what they need. Whereas sitting down with Zane Lowe for an Apple Music 1 interview posted Thursday (March 7) — simply sooner or later forward of the discharge of her new album Everlasting Sunshine — the 30-year-old pop star defined how certainly one of her new songs, “The Boy Is Mine,” finds her taking over the position of a “unhealthy woman” for her followers’ listening pleasure.
“It’s type of like, okay, ‘I’ll play the unhealthy woman, right here’s your unhealthy woman anthem,’” Grande informed Lowe, noting that one other tune, “True Story,” units listeners up for “The Boy Is Mine.”
The Grammy winner additionally touched on the observe’s apparent callback to Brandy and Monica’s iconic smash of the identical title, which dominated atop the Billboard Scorching 100 for 13 weeks in 1998. “I really like that tune,” Grande stated. “I’ve all the time needed to reimagine that tune in some type of manner.”
“I type of was like, ‘This can be a very unhealthy concept, I believe, however there’s a giant group of my followers that basically, they do love a foul woman anthem,’” she continued. “And that is type of an elevated model of that.”
The Victorious alum additionally confirmed that “The Boy Is Mine” will function cannibalized elements of “Fantasize,” an unreleased observe that leaked — and promptly went viral — on TikTok final yr. “I type of gave them Ariana’s model of that on the album,” she beforehand informed Zach Sang of the reworked ’90s-inspired jam. “They’re utterly completely different now. So though you’ve heard them — as a result of [someone] stole them — they’re very completely different now.”
Grande has solely launched one single forward of Everlasting Sunshine: “Sure, And?,” which earned the singer her eighth profession No. 1 on the Scorching 100 in January. One may argue that she performs the “unhealthy woman” slightly bit on that observe as nicely, with lyrics similar to, “Your corporation is yours and mine is mine/ Why do you care a lot whose d-ck I trip?”
Watch Grande’s Apple Music 1 interview above.
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