BRANDY & MONICA - "THE BOY IS MINE" FEUD: WHO IS TO BLAME?
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The Alarmist
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Who’s to blame for Brandy & Monica’s "The Boy Is Mine" Feud?
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) revisits the epic feud between 90’s female pop icons Brandy and Monica. The Boy Is Mine. Was it real? Was it a publicity stunt? We may never know the entire story. But, we do know the fans loved it. And they still do…to this very day. Hence Brandy & Monica’s 2025 reunion titled after the hit songs namesake. Was this manufactured by the music industry or were the fans to blame for their insatiable appetite for drama? Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early join the conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Alarmy, check out Alarmist on Patreon for ad-free episodes and bonus content. |
| 0:07.4 | I do know she's had some heartbreaks and she sings about them pretty famously. |
| 0:15.5 | So it's either, it could be the end of the breakup song or this is kind of dark. |
| 0:22.9 | But if she gets married and then divorced, we might hear some of the best music we've ever heard in our entire life. |
| 0:29.3 | Maybe this is all for her writing. |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:33.6 | Go to patreon.com slash the alarmist and subscribe today. |
| 0:38.6 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:41.8 | The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 0:52.7 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to |
| 0:59.0 | scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters and find out who's to blame. They say history |
| 1:09.1 | repeats itself. Not on my watch. |
| 1:12.2 | My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith and I am the alarmist. |
| 1:21.5 | Hey, everyone. |
| 1:24.5 | Thanks for tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. |
| 1:32.2 | Today we're discussing Brandy and Monica's The Boy is Mine Feud. Here's what you need to know. |
| 1:42.2 | In the late 1990s, R&B was ruled by two teenage prodigies, Brandy Norwood and Monica Arnold. |
| 1:49.6 | Brandy, born in Mississippi in 1979 and raised in California, was already a household name |
| 1:55.5 | by her mid-teens. |
| 2:09.5 | Her self-titled debut album went platinum, and she was starring on the hit sitcom Moisha, as well as Disney's Cinderella in 1997. |
| 2:13.0 | Morning, everybody. |
| 2:14.2 | Hey, Mo, what's happening? |
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