Ariana Grandewas less than pleased that a song of hers circulated online illegally, but her fans’ response to it ultimately influenced her newest album.
The pop star, 30, recentlyput fans on blastas she discussed the leaking of her song, “Fantasize,” on theZach Sang Show, and warned that she’d see the perpetrators “in jail, literally.” Ironically enough, the love her fans showed for the pop track, though, ended up affecting the track list of her forthcoming album,Eternal Sunshine.
“I love that song. I’ve always wanted to reimagine that song in some kind of way,” she said during a conversation withZane Lowe on Apple Music 1on Thursday.
The reimagining ended up in the eighth track ofEternal Sunshineafter Grande “saw my fans’ reaction to ‘Fantasize,’ because they love it so much.”
Brandy and Monica - “The Boy Is Mine” (1998).Courtesy Atlantic
“I think I kind of was like, ‘This is a very bad idea,’ I think, but… There is a large group of my fans that really – they do love a bad girl anthem,” she mused.
Her take on “the boy is mine” is just that — but, in her words, “an elevated version.”
During her conversation with Sang, Grande teased that some influences from “Fantasize” had made their way ontoEternal Sunshine, though they took a different form.
“And I was like, ‘a) all of you are absolute hypocrites, and b) that’s crazy! It’s so corny!’ But it’s OK. I took the note, and I kind of gave them Ariana’s version of that on the album. I would say that exists. So, some of those seedling ideas from that time actually made their way onto the album, which is really exciting, but they’re completely different now."
TheWickedstar also issued a plea to regain control of the song as she said, “I’ll pay you more to put it away, to get it back.”
Zane Lowe and Ariana Grande for Apple Music 1.Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1
Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1
Aside from featuring a “bad girl anthem,” Grande’s forthcoming albumseeks to answer a burning questionthat the singer had — or at least that’s how Lowe seemed to understand the story told between the opening track, “intro (end of the world),” and the final one, “ordinary things.”
“I was listening to it and I thought, ‘OK, it starts with a question and it ends with an answer.’ The question is, ‘How do I know if I’m in the right relationship, if I found the right person?’ "
Grande said that she always knew “‘ordinary things’ was the end of the album,” but she wasn’t exactly sure how she would polish it off.
“I was like, ‘This is the last song, but I wonder how I can put that button on it and have it land emotionally the way that I feel it can, and how can I answer the question?’ "
It was only when she listened to one of the many voice notes she has of her grandmother, Nonna, talking to a friend that she found the answer. “It was just right smack in the middle of it, and I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s the answer.’ "
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Despite the background she gave on the opening and closing track and “the boy is mine,” those three songs did not make the cut when Lowe asked Grande for her favorites off the album.
Instead, she listed “we can’t be friends (wait for your love),” “imperfect for you” and the titular track, “eternal sunshine,” which she’s previously confirmed is a reference to the 2004 film starringJim CarreyandKate Winslet.
source: people.com
