Ariana Grande has unlocked the video for ‘the boy is mine’ and it brings with it a number of surprises.

For, beyond the songbird starring alongside ‘You’ actor Penn Badgley in the Christian Breslauer-directed visual, she tapped R&B icons Brandy and Monica to make cameos in the cinematic flick.

The duo topped the charts with their like-titled track and etched the term into pop culture in perpetuity. Thus, making Grande’s nod to the GRAMMY-winning duo all the more apt.

Housed on the superstar’s ‘eternal sunshine’ album, ‘the boy is mine’ follows chart-topping singles ‘yes, and?’ and ‘we can’t be friends (wait for your love).’

Watch the visual after the jump…

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