Ariana Grande recreates a scene from ‘Forget About Me!’ in her new single: ‘we ca n’t be friends (wait for your love)’

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Now, yes! There’s nothing left before we can listen to Ariana Grande’s new studio album. Good things take a long time to come, and the American star hasn’t released a new album in four years, so we’re looking forward to hearing the full result of Eternal Sunshine!

After the release of the first single, Si y?, last January, and its remix with Mariah Carey in February, on March 8 we will be able to listen to Ari’s seventh studio album. The thirteen corresponding songs. After knowing the name of the thirteen songs that make up the album (where the only featuring es with his grandmother Marjorie Grande), we were missing the last unknown: what was going to be the next single? Well, doubt resolved!

This same Friday, March 1, when there is only one week left until the album is released on all platforms, he has revealed the lead single with which the album will be released. It is, nothing more and nothing less, than we can’t be friends (wait for your love). What would be translated “We cannot be friends (I hope for your love).

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A tribute to cinema

But the thing Don “t stay there. Ariana Grande has also shown a preview of what appears to be the video for the single. And yes, it seems that it is going to be a tribute to one of the romantic films of the early 2000’s that marked an entire generation. ‘Forget about me!’ (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), the 2004 film starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey, has been a source of inspiration for this new musical era of Ari. In this way, the artist wanted to pay tribute beyond the name of the album.

For this reason, in the video images we can see Ariana Grande in the waiting room of a medical clinic. A place that, as in the movie, serves to erase a person’s memories. A way for the film’s protagonists to forget about each other.

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But the nod to the film does not stop there. Ariana Grande, who is a true movie buff, has recreated the legendary coat worn by the protagonist. A blue design full of hair.

It is by no means the first time that the artist has recreated a scene from a movie from the 2000s. The entire video clip of her Thank you, Next is full of references to Mean Girls, The dream of my life and Go for it all.

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