Brandy hopes to hop on the road with Monica.
R&B icon and actress Brandy was all smiles at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, for the premiere of her latest film ‘Descendants: Rise of Red’ ahead of its wide release on July 12.
In an interview with Extra TV, Brandy expressed her desire to collaborate more with fellow R&B singer Monica.
“I hit [Monica] up so much talking about all the things that we could do together — tour, residency, everything,” Brandy told Extra TV on the red carpet. Sending Monica a direct message she added, “I really want that. Monica, I really want that.”
She also dished on reuniting with Monica for a remix of Ariana Grande’s song “The Boy Is Mine,” decades after their 1998 smash hit of the same name.
“It was so magical. The energy between me and Monica was so beautiful,” she said. Gushing about Ariana’s remix, she added “I had a great time with Monica and I just want to do more with her in the future.”
“The Boy Is Mine”
After more than 20 years of on-again, off-again friction, the singers are making it clear that they are burying the hatchet.
Brandy and Monica, who were 18 and 17 at the time, hadn’t actually met before they recorded “The Boy Is Mine” in 1997. The idea to come together was originally Brandy’s, who was hoping to quell the persistent rumors that the two teenagers loathed each other. “We’re friends and we’re cool and no matter what anybody says we’re going to stay tight,” said Brandy in a late-’90s interview clip about the collaboration.
Monica, while promoting her second studio album, The Boy Is Mine, on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee in ‘98, also seemed to suggest they were on the same page. “When we did the song together, [there] were all these misconceptions about controversy, but I think it kind of took the fun out of it for people to see we got along,” she said. Still, this act of resistance proved futile as the wildly popular pop stars’ budding relationship inevitably became frayed. Though adept at singing, the two were not at all prepared to endure the manufactured rivalry that seemingly became a real thing.
Ironically, the duet won the pair a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group in 1999, a shared honor that remains the only Grammy each of them have to their name.
Fourteen years later after their global hit, the songbirds reconnected on the record “It All Belongs to Me.”