![]() (In Grande’s tribute to Miller, she also said “we talked about this. Then again, the lyric could also be referring to Miller and his drug use, and therefore expressing her support and desire for him to continue pursuing sobriety. The beginning of their relationship, however, was not without road bumps Davidson’s joke about the Manchester bombing, for example, could definitely be an example of why she wanted the subject of “In My Head” to grow. “Look at you, boy, I invented you / Your Gucci tennis shoes runnin’ from your issues / Wanted you to grow, but, boy, you wasn’t budding.” Davidson was already something of a celebrity before dating Grande, from his work with Saturday Night Live, but it was only after their relationship began that he catapulted to fame. falling for someone that they are not.” That seems to be the case for Davidson, seeing as Grande was by all accounts deeply in love with him before they split in October. “I thought that you were the one / But it was all in my head.” Last month, Grande tweeted that “In My Head” was about “being in love w a version of somebody you’ve created in your head. (She’s also previously described Miller as “the kindest, sweetest soul with demons he never deserved.”) If so, this could be touching on the public’s perception of Miller’s addiction-both in questioning why she would stay with him, as well as even unjustly blaming her for Miller’s death. ![]() “My imagination’s too creative / They see demon, I see angel, angel, angel / Without the halo, wingless angel.” Grande memorably used the word “angel” to describe Miller in the beginning of “Thank U, Next,” which suggests she’s again referring to him here. Enough is enough.” (Presumably, he left it either after Miller’s death or Grande’s breakup with Davidson.) I love you, this has gone on way too long. The song begins with a voicemail from her longtime friend Doug Middlebrook, whom she described earlier this week as “a major help to thru some v difficult moments,” which reassures her that “the only thing you can fix is yourself. ![]() “Falling, falling, but I never thought you’d leave me / Falling, falling, needed something to believe in.” In “In My Head,” Grande again echoes her tribute. You can find breakdowns of the references to Davidson and Miller in Grande’s three previously released songs here, here, and here. ![]() For the most part, though, Thank U, Next gets as serious as Sweetener did when touching on the Manchester bombing in the weeks after her breakup with Davidson, Grande said that she was able to turn around the album so quickly-in less than three months-because it was her way to “ heal.” (When a fan asked her how she managed to do it, Grande responded, “how u think i survived these 2/3 months ksjsksjs.”) Of course, not all of the lyrics in her latest are downcast there are also shoutouts to Fenty Beauty, a cameo from her grandma, and pretty much the entirety of the delightfully raunchy “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored,” for which she also released a music video (featuring Riverdale’s Charles Melton) on Friday night. A month before ending her whirlwind relationship with Davidson, Grande’s previous ex Mac Miller died of an overdose, at the age of 26, marking another rollercoaster of a year for Grande, who’s still recovering from the bombing at her concert in Manchester that killed 39 of her fans and injured 139 more. Just as with the three singles she’s already released-the eponymously titled one, plus “Imagine“ and “7 Rings”-Grande’s nine new songs are full of references to her personal life, which has unfortunately been quite eventful as of late. In the early hours of Friday morning, just four months after calling off her engagement to Pete Davidson, Ariana Grande released her fifth studio (and first breakup) album, Thank U, Next.
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