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}} "The Boy Is Mine" is a duet by American recording artists Brandy and Monica. The song was written and composed by LaShawn Daniels, Japhe Tejeda, Fred Jerkins III, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, and Brandy with co-production by Darkchild and Dallas Austin, and was released as the lead single from both singers' second albums, ''Never Say Never'' (1998) by Brandy and the album of the same name (1998) by Monica, during the second quarter of 1998. Described as an answer song to Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney's 1982 duet "The Girl Is Mine", the lyrics of the mid-tempo contemporary R&B track revolve around two women disputing the love of a man.〔 〕 The song received generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics and was the first number-one pop record for both artists, both stateside and internationally. Exploiting the media's presumption of a rivalry between the two young singers, "The Boy Is Mine" became the best-selling song of the year in the US, spending 13 weeks on top of the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 during the summer of 1998. Internationally, the single also achieved a strong charting, peaking at number-one in Canada, the Netherlands and New Zealand, while reaching the top five on most of the other charts on which it appeared.〔 The music video for the single was filmed by director Joseph Kahn in April 1998, and depicts the singers as both neighbours and challengers, fighting over the same man, only to end up as allies who amicably settle on dumping their unfaithful lover, played by Mekhi Phifer. The video was nominated for two MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year and Best R&B Video. To date, their performance at the 1998 VMAs ceremony, held on September 10, 1998 in the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, remains Brandy and Monica's only television broadcast performance of the song. "The Boy Is Mine" was awarded the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group and received nominations for both Record of the Year and Best R&B Song in 1999. At the Billboard Music Awards, the song won in three categories, including Hot 100 Sales Single of Year. In 2008, ''Billboard'' listed it 54th on its 50th Anniversary All-Time Hot 100 Top Songs chart, and 18th on the All-Time Top R&B/Hip-Hop Songs countdown. In 2012, after 14 years, the singers reunited on the single "It All Belongs to Me". ==Background== "The Boy Is Mine" was a song Brandy Norwood wrote with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, his brother Fred Jerkins III, Japhe Tejeda, and LaShawn Daniels. The singer came up with its concept while watching ''The Jerry Springer Show'' tabloid talk show, where love triangles among the guests was the theme of an episode. Created as a solo track, Norwood originally recorded the song alone. After listening to the result, however, she and Jerkins thought it would work better as a duet, an idea which was further inspired by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson's 1982 hit duet "The Girl Is Mine". Upon Norwood's request her label Atlantic Records approached fellow R&B teen singer Monica Arnold for collaboration.〔 Though the pair had seen each other in passing at awards shows and several other live events by then, Norwood thought teaming up on the song would help combat the ongoing rumors that the singers shared a rivalry.〔 With the permission from Clive Davis, the then label head of Arista Records, Arnold's record company, the singer eventually signed on to the project. Originally, the duo recorded their vocals for the song together with Jerkins and his team at the Record One Studios in North Hollywood. However, the joint recording was felt to be a failure so Arnold re-recorded her vocals separately at the DARP Studios in Atlanta, Georgia with longtime contributor Dallas Austin.〔 Thus, Austin would later share the main production credit alongside Jerkins.〔 Though both Norwood and Arnold repeatedly denied the song reflected any actual rivalry between them, tabloids began writing the opposite. There were claims that Arnold was upset when Norwood performed the song solo on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', and Norwood reportedly was miffed when Arnold opted to take the name of the duet for the title of her second album.〔 Following gossip reports that the pair came to blows during a rehearsal for a performance at the MTV Video Music Awards in September 1998, talk of the rivalry became so loud that the singers' managers released a joint statement in which they dismissed the press for its "disturbing behavior" and called the "ongoing negativity () totally unfair."〔 As with "The Boy Is Mine" Jerkins later claimed that both singers "they didn’t get along" during production and that he and Dexter Simmons remixed the track seven times to keep everything even.〔 In a 2012 interview with WZMX, Arnold spoke about her past relationship with Norwood:
They have now however said they are close friends, and regularly meet up with their children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Boy Is Mine (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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