Who Is Mikey Foster? Get to Know Ariana Grande's Boyfriend

Mikey is one half of the band Social House. Michael "Mikey" Foster and Charles "Scootie" Anderson founded the musical duo in 2015, and started out by writing and producing songs for established artists. In time, they began releasing their own music, including a collaboration with Ariana, "Boyfriend."

Although many of his Social House credits are writing for other artists, Mikey and Scootie have released some music of their own. In 2018, they released their debut single, "Magic in the Hamptons," which featured the rapper Lil Yachty.

In an interview with Wild 94.1's The Nuthouse in 2018, Foster explained how he and Scootie just fell into working with each other, even though that hadn't been a specific intention when they both began working with the same collective of musicians.

"The chemistry was good, our songs came out pretty well, and people started wanting some music from us," he said, citing that creative connection and fan support as reasons why they branched out into making music of their own, rather than just continuing to write for bigger names.

During his career as a writer and producer, he worked with such A-listers as Meghan Trainor, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Brown, Steve Malcolm, and NCT 127. He also has a deal with Scooter Braun, the now-infamous producer who was at the centre of a recent scandal surrounding Taylor Swift's back catalogue.

Mikey and his Social House partner Scootie originally came to Los Angeles after growing up in Pittsburgh. According to a Billboard interview in 2015, they barely knew each other at the time, but both moved in with a musician collective and began working together, with the shared goal of "understanding more about music."