Ariana Grande closed the gap between hip-hop icons Brandy and Monica, despite rumors that the couple had a grudge.
The 30-year-old hitmaker, who recently looked glam in a sexy leather Catwoman costume, released her own version of her 1998 hit and released a music video with the original singers appearing.
Monica said Eastern Time on Friday, “the new collaboration process went a long way toward bridging the gaps.”
“When you communicate something properly, not only can you find resolutions and solutions to problems, but sometimes you discover that there were never any problems, just constant miscommunications,” said the 43-year-old singer.
“She made it a lot easier to talk,” she said of Grande meeting her and Brandy.
Ariana Grande closed the gap between hip-hop icons Brandy and Monica, despite rumors that the couple had a grudge; Ariana seen in 2024
Monica told ET on Friday, “The new collaboration process went a long way toward bridging the gaps”; Brandy and Monica photographed in 2024
In the 7 Ring hitmaker’s music video, Brandy and Monica act as news anchors and that in turn resulted in the two spending more time catching up.
After the R&B singers’ original success in the ’90s, their on-camera rivalry over a man was rumored to have turned into a real-life rift in their friendship.
Years later, the pair still weren’t as close as before, despite briefly reconnecting in 2020.
Monica shared: ‘We recognized that the key was to keep other people out of our relationship, both business and personal, and let it be between her and me, and that has changed everything. It has changed her entire trajectory.
“My son was in the hospital the other day and she was the one I talked to while he was there, so I think that’s what Ariana has done and maybe she doesn’t even realize it,” she added, noting that she and Brandy spoke further. during filming than in the last 20 years.
Just a few months ago Grande said in The Zane Lowe Show that her 1998 hit inspired her when she was writing her eighth studio album, Eternal Sunshine.
The Angel of Mine singer initially stood by her claims that the original release “should not be touched.”
Brandy and Monica made surprise cameos in the music video despite not appearing in the 2024 remake.
Grande played a woman living in a rat-infested city who transforms into Catwoman and stalks the mayor.
After the R&B singers’ original success in the ’90s, their on-camera rivalry over a man was rumored to have turned into a real-life rift in their friendship; Brandy seen in 1998
Monica shared, “We recognized that the key was to keep other people out of our relationship, both business and personal, and let it be between her and me, and that has changed everything”; Brandy and Monica seen in 1998
“And I said that because I felt like it wasn’t necessary to remake it with the idea of, let’s say, doing it exactly as it was,” Monica told the outlet.
“But Ariana and (producer) Max Martin… as soon as I heard this version, I fell in love with it,” he concluded.
Brandy and Monica made surprise cameos in the music video despite not appearing in the 2024 remake.
Grande played a woman living in a rat-infested city who transforms into Catwoman and stalks the mayor, played by Penn Badgley. The actor plays a stalker in the hit Netflix series, You.