On June 7, Ariana Grande released the star-studded music video for "The Boy Is Mine." Directed by Christian Breslauer, who also worked on We Can't Be Friends and Yes, And Then? 》Production. — The video stars singer and "Gossip Girl" star Penn Badgley.
Bagley plays Max Starling, a fictional mayor who releases feral cats into the city to deal with a rat infestation. Grande's character creates a "love potion" that makes the mayor fall in love with her. Dressed as Catwoman, she attempts to give Starling the pink concoction, although it turns out she never needed it - the mayor has fallen in love with her.
After the video premiered, many fans compared Grande's character to Bagley's character in "You," Joe Goldberg. "Did Ariana Grande just outed Joe Goldberg himself?" one fan joked on X (formerly Twitter).
The singer gave fans a sneak peek on Instagram on May 27 and later teased Badgley's character by posting a video on TikTok dancing to the song.
Bagley isn't the only familiar face in the video. Brandi and Monica released a song of the same name in 1998, playing news anchors. Grande's song, a reworked version of theirs, is the third single from her seventh studio album , Eternal Sunshine .
In March, she revealed in an interview with Apple Music 1's Zane Lowe that she had "always" wanted to reprise the 1998 hit. "In a way, I was kind of like, 'This is a really bad idea.' But I have a whole bunch of fans who really love the bad girl anthem," Grande said. "This is an updated version of it." "
