She reminds us to take a step back and look at the big picture of how relationships factor into the grand scheme of our lives. She recognizes it simply didn’t work out with them. Understanding their imperfections is necessary for forgiving them, ultimately releasing you from the hold they have over you.Īs Ariana goes through the list of her exes, she doesn’t belabor the ways they hurt her and doesn’t drag their names through the dirt. It’s probably because of these wounds that they hurt you in the first place. It’s helpful to remember that your exes are still people guilty of flaws and have their own wounds.
Which is understandable, but we all know that demonizing our exes doesn’t really help us heal from the pain. Suddenly, everything you used to love about them is overshadowed with the fact that they did you wrong and now they’re on your list of enemies. 1: Your ex is not evilįor many of us, our natural instinct is to do a complete 180 on how we feel about the person we used to be smitten with. So, if you’ve ever repeatedly listened to sad breakup songs simply to exacerbate the misery, it’s time to throw this bop into your playlist to put a positive perspective on your breakup! Let’s take a dive into the multiple life lessons and takeaways present in “thank u, next.” You may be surprised at the lyrical truth bombs that we can all apply to our dating lives. On the contrary, this catchy, upbeat pop song bears a message that encourages handling a split in a way that can transform you as a person and even points toward a life led with Christ at the center. Ahhh.īut when I pressed play on the recently released, “ thank u, next,” I was shocked to find the opposite of a bitter breakup anthem. If you haven’t been tuned into pop culture the past five months, singer Ariana Grande and comedian Pete Davidson began their very public romance in May, got engaged in June, and broke the whole thing off some time in September. When I heard Ariana Grande dropped a new single that quite literally calls out the names of her exes, I anticipated the revenge song of our generation. Maybe the ride is just starting.When flipping through radio channels, you can find two types of love songs:
“I know it ain’t right/But I don’t care,” she sings.
A week before the album’s release, she swapped out a particularly sentimental song called “Remember” with the provocative, NSYNC-sampling “break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored.” As expected, it sent her fans into a frenzy. Surely embracing all of that is its own form of self-empowerment.īut Grande also isn't in a rush to grow up. As Grande wrestles with what she wants-distance (“NASA”) and affection (“needy”), anonymity (“fake smile") and star power (“7 rings”), and sex without strings attached (“bloodline,” “make up”)-we learn more and more about the woman she’s becoming: complex, independent, tenacious, flawed. The album doesn't arrive a minute too soon. “He just comes to visit me/When I’m dreaming every now and then.” Like many of the songs here, it was produced by Max Martin, who has a supernatural way of making pain and suffering sound like beams of light. “Though I wish he were here instead/Don’t want that living in your head,” she confesses on “ghostin,” a gutting synth-and-strings ballad that hovers in your throat. thank u, next, mostly recorded over those tumultuous months, sees her turning inward in an effort to cope, grieve, heal, and let go.
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Shortly after the album’s release in August 2018, things fell apart again: Grande’s ex-boyfriend, rapper Mac Miller, died from an overdose in September, and she broke off her engagement a few weeks later.Īgain, Grande took solace from the intense, and intensely public, melodrama in songwriting, but this time things were different. Her hopeful fourth album, Sweetener-written after the deadly attack at her concert in Manchester, England-encouraged fans to stay strong and open to love (at the time, the singer was newly engaged to Pete Davidson). What do you do when things fall apart? If you’re Ariana Grande, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and head for the studio.
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