Ariana Grande Drops “7 Rings,” a Tongue-In-Cheek Ode to Friendship and Materialism, and Twitter Goes Crazy
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.
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:
