As promised, Ariana Grande’s newest song and music video landed late on Thursday night in a flurry of hot pink and Kirakira-ready sparkle, and let’s just say the Internet was ready for it. The video’s inspiration was a “pretty rough day,” Grande said on Twitter back in December, during which six of her friends took her to Tiffany Co., they had “too much champagne,” and she bought them all rings. “It was very insane and funny. [And] on the way back to the [studio] Njomza was like, ‘Bitch, this gotta be a song lol.’ So we wrote it that afternoon,” Grande said. The pals from the day in question all appear in the video’s riotous house party, along with a rosy neon-hued kitchen (that has an island Grande provocatively crawls across), an extremely long ponytail (lyrics include, “You like my hair? / Gee thanks, just bought it”), and her dog.
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The song itself closely follows Rodgers Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music classic “My Favorite Things.” Grande sings “breakfast at Tiffany’s and bottles of bubbles / Girls with tattoos who like getting in trouble / Lashes and diamonds, ATM machines / Buy myself all of my favorite things”—and nods to the musician’s recent split with former fiancé Pete Davidson with lyrics like “Wearing a ring but ain’t gon’ be no Mrs.,” ultimately landing on the kind of self-empowerment we’ve come to expect from the star: “Been through some bad shit, I should be a sad bitch / Who woulda thought it’d turn me to a savage?”
The reactions on Twitter came fast and furious, and from shouting Meryl to the 10-year challenge, they hit all the right memes. Some of the best below: