Miley Cyrus & Nicki Minaj 'SMS (Bangerz)' Remix? Rapper Could Have Been on Track Instead of Britney Spears [VIDEO]
Miley Cyrus collaborated with Britney Spears on her Bangerz album, but songwriter Sean Garrett told MTV News on Oct. 9 the team had other women in mind to be featured on SMS (Bangerz).
SMS stands for "strutting my stuff" and singers like Gwen Stefani and Nicki Minaj were brought up in conversation about who should be on the track.
"The first name that we tossed around was Gwen Sefani. We were talking about Gwen because, you know, Gwen got that edge too, but that's how God works. We were throwing around those ideas," Garrett said about the song he helped write with Mike Will Made It. "Nicki, we were talking about putting Nicki on there too. That would've been nuts too, but I think that's how God works, this was absolutely the right one."
Cyrus said in her MTV documentary Miley: The Movement, "I only want one b--ch on my record, and that's Britney, b--ch." On SMS, Cyrus and Spears sing about playing boss, "flirting with them big dogs" and "flying high up on a bird like a phobiac."
Garrett confirmed that producer Mike Will looked to Salt-n-Pepa and their classic 1986 single Push It as inspiration for the track. Salt-n-Pepa paved the way for female rapperslike no one did before them.
"That was all Mike's opinion. He felt like he wanted to fuse that Salt-n-Pepa," Garrett said, adding that Cyrus was looking to accomplish something even bigger. "It's like five different things, it's hip-hop, it's the girls, it's a female anthem, Salt-n-Pepa, Britney and Miley... people didn't get that.
Bangerz is out in stores now.
