Release date: 8 March 2024
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🧵 MEGATHREAD | we can’t be friends (wait for your love): music video discussion
MegathreadWhat do y’all think she says to the nurse when she wakes up crying during the procedure!?
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Did anyone notice the 16 candles reference?
the way Evan Peters is always cast as a dark character but Ariana was the one to show him in this light. To parallel how people in her life might have seen Dalton as a dark person but she wanted to be the one to make him be seen in a positive light?? HER MIND.
I was listening to this song and a lot of the lyrics seem to reference Ariana potentially being censored; maybe by scooter Braun throughout her career. She is no longer working with scooter which made me think it could be about her firing him and their on and off dynamic and the music video could be kind of a misdirection. There is also one lyric where she says "know that you made me, I don't like how you paint me" which could be directed at him. She then continues to sing about she only needs herself. When she sings about papers and pens it also sounds more like something directed at a manager rather than a romantic relationship.
Ariana Grande's best Masterpiece ever and the biggest hit of her career for all time. I don't expect anything less.
I will admit that I was worried the whole album was going to be like yes,and (sorry y'all, but I just dont listen to house music unless I'm in a club ready to dance). I'm so glad it wasn't.
This is a much better single and great MV.
I will admit I haven’t seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, so I wasn’t aware of all the references in the video, but I don’t often cry at things and this got me emotional. Such a beautiful video and an amazing song!
Just had another optional meaning like what she wants to say to the world / media like public opinion around her. She doesn’t like how they’ve painted her so she’ll just wait for the love to come back in terms of her general mass fandom. Think this cause of the “you stick to your papers and pens” like the journalists
Yeah, I really felt like the song was directed at the fans / media. But then there were a few lines that sounded like a romantic relationship too
Yeah it’s both I think
Musically so good it’s probably so pretty as an acoustic version too
I think it might be about her fan base
I like the whole album, but I gotta say this song is way above the rest, a whole another league, and the video is magnificent too.
This one was so good!! Hit my heart hard, couldn't not cry 😭
I cried watching this one, and Ari acting was sooo good
her grabbing her necklace and you can lip read her saying "can we keep this one" I WEPTTTTTT.😭😭😭 it's so good.
And she made a necklace like it for merch 😭
did she?
I bawled watching this. I love the music video so much. The way I ugly sobbed when she started panicking in the chair. Been sitting here with it on repeat. Really, a beautiful music video.
This song came at a great time in my life too. Love the lyrics "But I feel so seen in the night. So for now it's only me. And maybe that's all I need."
So did I. It's beautiful. Even though it's painful, you still want to hold onto the memories
I was WAITING to see some references especially with the box contents!
I'm literally sobbing 😭
HOLY CRAP, hands down her best music video. Love the homage to eternal sunshine in it. Cinematically beautiful.
Jeffrey Dahmer what are you doing here?
Dont refer to Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer. He would not like to be refered to that, he also said he does not want to play roles like that in the future. He clearly would not like what you said
Why take the role in the first place?
I’m so glad this album is more about dalton and that experience than her newer relationship. Like she’s really gone vulnerable with this one and it’s so beautiful. Also Evan peters!?!?!? My favorite girl, favorite movie, and one of my favorite actors. My heart can’t take it. I love the album already and I am SOOOO proud of her.
Wait how? Supernatural, that boy is mine, imperfect for you, ordinary things are all about her new relationship. Yes, and too, although less overtly. Even intro and eternal sunshine reference new relationship. Seems like an even split to me.
I feel like even the songs about falling In Love could be about Dalton too. Because the movie starts off with the breakup, but then goes in reverse chronological order and shows how they fell in love, etc. so starting with “bye” but then ending with “ordinary things” still could be about the same person
The album starts with intro though, referencing that a new connection is what’s inspiring her. I know she wrote the album in the fall of last year, I don’t think those are retroactive love songs.
I fucking crieddddd, this song hits SO MUCH DIFFRENT now 😭😭😭
I didn't cry when I listened to the song earlier but goddddd I was bawling in the pre-chorus with the scene where she was panicking. I felt the song even more. Andddd is it just me???? the resemblances of the characters???? like were those intended??? another andddd was the beat from her heartbeat or the beat just matched the heartbeat shown in the lifeline monitor????
maybe her best MV??? definitely in the top. complimented the song so well, and Evan Peters was a great surprise.
Am I the only one who did think the guy represented dalton? In my eyes since the song is about us not understanding the reasonings behind her decisions that got her such a bad rep and lead to her having to “wait for our love” the little bit of it being sour (the guy laying angrily in bed) might refer to how bad or lonely things were sometimes behind the scenes with them and we’d never fully understand that. and the end where they’re both coupled with other people ties into eternal sunshine when she refers to them both being with someone new.
Evan Peters and Ariana Grande starring in a music video together was not on my 2024 bingo card. But the mv is AMAZING and it had me tearing up. Stunning work.
This MV was a masterpiece. Wow.
Gosh, love is so scary
Wow Evan Peters staring as the love interest is so spot on. Ugh she did such a good job and it’s so visually appealing!!! I loved the snow scene
Oh jesus, it got me in a nerve that was never touched before, the way she shows regret and sadness over her decision, her memories slowly being manipulated to erase him completely, and them crossing paths, with him entering the inc., which probably he wil do the same as Ariana, not knowing that they had an amazing life together... BITCH, IT'S AMAZING!!!
Loved it on the first watch... Anesthetics are on point, it's beautiful to see something so cohesive. I've felt emotional watching it
I've never experienced a song that both made me wanna dance and cry at the same time. Oh my god.
The theming of the video is great, it ties in really well to the movie. I really liked how the house slowly changes in the end. Side note: I LOVE that 4K MVs seem to FINALLY be the new standard
I was bawling the whole time. This song already made me cry and this video??? FUUUUCKKK! The pop culture references AND MY MAN EVAN PETERS??? Feels like 2013 again ugh
Oh my god amazing! I'm so glad I watched the movie last week, there were so many references
EVAN PETERS!!!!
I enjoyed the MV. Love the theme.
one of her best music videos, she served many crazy looks
Did not expect to be crying before noon but here I am
the guy in the video definitely does not represent dalton
Uhm the guy?! You mean Evan Peters??😭
it does represent someone else very accurately tho heh
Who?
Spongebob…
You think Evan Peter's is representing SpongeBob? Evan is representing Dalton and if it must continue to be literal, the new guy at the end would be spongebob
I mean he looks the most similar no?
seeing ariana cry after watching her memories made me start crying. so powerful and heartbreaking.
EVAN PETERS?!?!? IM DONE 😭 i was sobbing the entire time it was so sad
omg ur so right its him
When does next Zach sang interview come out?
in 9 hours at 7pm
Thank you!!
I think, “we can’t be friends (wait for your love)” is for the public/fans and not about a guy at all. She definitely sounds like she’s just watching everyone judge her and assume and she’s aware that once it blows over, the public and fans will love her again. This isn’t her first time getting cancelled, so she knows how mercurial the public can be to her
I think that's what true story is about
I like how it really fits with both interpretations. You can interpret it as talking about always loving someone even after they don't love you anymore, but it also makes so much sense if you interpret it as being about the GP/fans. I think it's actually my favorite song she's ever done. Like ever. It's truly a masterpiece I can't stop listening
When does this MV come out?
LMAOOOO I thought it came out , I was like HUHH. That was quick.
10am EST tomorrow?
its out now
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I felt the exact same way! it feels like her reaction to all the backlash an feeling torn on what to do
I AM READY BABY
will the MV drop at midnight along w the album?
I doubt it. Probably tomorrow morning
This is for sure going to be the best weekend of my entire life
real af. my friends tried to make plans but hell no. I'm staying home, buying champagne and listening to the album multiple times
I love this. 1 hour left, hope you make it through! I don’t know how much longer I can wait 😭
hahaha thank u! we are all.so excited it feels like sweetener eve
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