Turn-of-the-millennium R&B icons Monica and Brandy are finally teaming up for a tour.
Now 27 years out from their iconic duet, the singers revealed the long-wished-for “The Boy Is Mine” tour with a cinematic announcement on Tuesday.
In the “Silence of the Lambs”-tinged promo video, a young agent of some sort is led down to Brandy and Monica, who are being held in what a grizzled colleague calls the “Maximum Sound Asylum.”
“We can’t afford a ’98 or ’20 again,” he says, referring to the original drop and the duo’s pandemic-era virtual Verzuz song battle.
“These two could destroy the world as we know it if they hear each other,” he warns, while telling the newcomer that the artists can never be in the same key or “Lord help us all.”
When they arrive to Monica and Brandy’s joint cell, lights buzz and flicker to reveal the girls wrapped in microphone cord-covered straitjackets and full makeup.
Going against her orders, the agent fiddles with a reel-to-reel recording deck playing distorted audio of the hit before locking two cords together, causing glass windows to break and free the rival singers from their chambers.
Liberated from their bondage, Brandy asks Monica, “You ready?”
“I been ready,” her duet partner replies. “What are we waiting for?”
The drama of the announcement video was appropriate, considering how long this collaboration has been anticipated.
While appearing on “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday to promote the tour, Brandy revealed, “They were trying to get us to do a tour since ’98 and it just finally felt like the right time. It was a dream come true.”
Calling their partnership a “musical marriage,” Monica said the opportunity was perfect now that they’ve “created the communication and the relationship to do it.”
Brandy and Monica’s 24-city The Boy Is Mine arena tour will feature special guests Kelly Rowland, Muni Long and “American Idol” winner Jamal Roberts.
It will kick off Oct. 16 in Cincinnati, Ohio and conclude Dec. 7 in Houston, Texas.
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