Ariana Grande just released her recently teased video for “The Boy Is Mine” and it’s totally Batman themed. The visual also stars Brandy and Monica along with You star Penn Badgley.
Set in a city similar to Gotham, the clip opens with a sanitization worker expressing anger over fictional Mayor Max Starling’s lack of care for cleaning up the area, which is infested with rats.
Starling, played by Badgley, announces he’s going to release stray cats into the streets to combat the rat issue. Grande thinks it’s a “brilliant” idea, as it’s revealed she’s making a love potion specifically for him to fall in love with her.
Grande’s cat breaks the potion bottle, but she’s able to save some of it before getting ready for a mission by dressing up in a masked Catwoman-esque costume as she dances around a Starling shrine.
She then breaks into Starling’s house and watches him from afar, before he finds her sitting on his bed. Scared, he tries to leave but she makes him stay, before giving him the potion. He takes off her mask to reveal her face and throws the love potion — because he’s already fallen for her.
Grande originally teased the video for “The Boy Is Mine” on May 27th with cryptic posts on her Instagram.
The song, which reimagines Brandy and Monica’s 1998 hit, is Grande’s latest single from her seventh studio album, Eternal Sunshine.
Back in March, Grande revealed during an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe that she “always” had an interest in reimagining the beloved R&B hit.
“In a way, I was kind of like, ‘This is a very bad idea.’ But there is a large group of my fans that really do love a bad girl anthem, and this is an elevated version of that,” said Grande.
While fans first got a listen to a sonically similar leaked demo called “Fantasize,” in 2023, Grande shared on the Zach Sang Show in February that she was inspired to repurpose elements of the track for a “completely different” version on her album, which resulted in “The Boy Is Mine.”
