“There’s kind of a natural beauty about her and this charisma that make you gravitate towards her,” he told MTV News that July. “She kind of has this warmth that makes you want to root for her, and that’s what you want with an artist. The fact that she has ridiculous vocal range, it was incredible and that she can do it live.”
But three years later, as Scooter, 42, would later reveal, the two cut ties briefly before they began working together again.
“With Ariana, I could have said a lot of stuff, and in fact my team wanted me to, because they were pissed,” he told Variety in 2018. “But I said, ‘We’re not gonna say a word, and this is gonna come back around.’ They were like, ‘Never take her back!,’ but I just said, “Let’s stay quiet and let our truth be our actions.”
