Penn Badgley goes from stalker to stalked in Ariana Grande‘s music video, “the boy is mine.”
The You star and producer portrays the mayor of a metropolis just like New York, because it fights to finish its rising rat drawback by rounding up the native road cats and releasing them suddenly to take down the rodents. Grande performs a metropolis resident, obsessive about Badgley’s Max, making a love potion to make him fall for her.
About midway by means of the six-minute video, Grande is seen making after which sporting a Catwoman costume as she makes her method by means of the town to Max’s condo. She makes use of her cat claws to carve a spherical gap in his window that she makes use of to enter his place.
When he’s startled to see her on his mattress, he tries to run for it, however she grabs him by the leg along with her whip earlier than making an attempt to force-feed him her love potion. As an alternative, he breaks the potion in opposition to the wall, removes her Catwoman masks and falls in love along with her with out the potion. The ultimate moments see the 2 of them in an condo with a number of cats, fortunately ever after.
“the boy is mine” is a single from Grande’s latest album, everlasting sunshine, launched in March. It samples Brandy and Monica‘s 1998 hit of the identical identify, with the music video that includes an look from each artists as information reporters discussing Mayor Stirling’s plan and marketing campaign.
Brandy and Monica in Ariana Grande’s “the boy is mine” music video.
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The singer beforehand teased Badgley’s look within the video, with a TikTok put up on her official account of the Gossip Girl actor dancing to the refrain of “the boy is mine.”
Grande additionally briefly reunited along with her Victorious co-star Elizabeth Gillies, who voices the rats firstly of the music video.
Halle Berry, who portrayed the long-lasting Catwoman within the 2004 film named after the DC Comics character, accepted of Grande’s all-black look within the video. The Oscar-winning actress commented on a music video clip shared by a Grande fan account on X (previously Twitter), writing, “Get it, Ari! Dwelling.”