My Everything (Ariana Grande album) snippet on August 4. Twenty days before the album's release, Grande released a preview of "Love Me Harder", which features Canadian recording artist The Weeknd, onto her Instagram profile. On August 20, four songs from the album, "Why Try", "Be My Baby", "Love Me Harder", and "Just a Little Bit of Your Heart", were released courtesy of MTV. On August 24, Grande opened the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards with "Break Free" and then later appeared to perform "Bang Bang" with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj. Following her performance on the show, "My Everything" was released worldwide on August 25,
Thought I Knew You (Nicki Minaj song) Thought I Knew You (Nicki Minaj song) Thought I knew You is a song recorded by American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj for her fourth studio album, "Queen" (2018). The track features The Weeknd in the chorus and was written by Minaj, Abel Tesfaye and Hazzard Reid. Commercially, the song peaked at number 97 on the US Billboard Hot 100, 19 in New Zealand 69 in Canada. For promotion Minaj debuted the track on her special Queen Radio show on Beats 1. "Thought I knew You" was written and produced by Minaj, The Weekend,Brittany Hazzard And J. Reid. J. Reid