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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