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R.E.M.<\/a>\u2018s Mike Mills<\/a> has light-heartedly called out Ariana Grande<\/a> on his new supergroup\u2019s track \u2018My Cologne\u2019.<\/p>\n The first single from his recently-formed supergroup Howl Owl Howl sees him joined by Hootie and the Blowfish<\/a>\u2019s Darius Rucker and the Black Crowes<\/a>\u2019 Steve Gorman to poke fun at the pop star\u2019s choice to name her beauty and fragrance brand R.E.M.<\/p>\n \u201cAriana Grande put out a record not long ago, and her first single was called \u2018R.E.M.,\u201d he said in a new Instagram video. \u201cIt\u2019s the dream stage of sleep, that\u2019s where we got it. It\u2019s universal. That\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd she put out a line of perfume called R.E.M. I said, \u2018Well, okay, that\u2019s okay\u2019. And one of the containers for her perfume was a cassette, I mean, literally a cassette, and it said R.E.M. on it. And then I said, OK, that\u2019s going over the line. I gotta say something about that.\u201d<\/p>\n Mills, reiterating that the upset was all in jest, said: \u201cI thought it was just funny, so we made a song called \u2018My Cologne.\u2019 The chorus line is, \u2018I want to smell like Ariana Grande, and I think she wants you to smell like me<\/em>.\u2019 It\u2019s all in good fun, and I hope she likes it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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