R.E.M.’s Mike Mills Responds To Ariana Grande With New Supergroup Howl Owl Howl

Ariana Grande’s masterful 2018 album Sweetener includes a single called “R.E.M.” Mike Mills, bassist for the legendary alt-rock band R.E.M., found this amusing. His laughter became slightly more anxious and perturbed when Grande made R.E.M. the name of her cosmetics and fragrance line. And when that company released a product line in a box designed to look like a cassette tape, Mills decided it was time to respond.