Last week, Ariana Grande released a music video for her newest single, “7 Rings.” Now, being a fan of Sound of Music, I wasn’t set up to like the song, and after hearing it, I found seven reasons to say “no thank u, next.”
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Right when the song began, I was not here for it. The first notes are from “My Favorite Things” from the 1965 musical The Sound of Music. Yet, this sounds way too modernized for my taste. Also, she took a song about cheering yourself up with “raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens” and made it about cheering yourself up with money. So…diamonds on roses and her friends get ten kittens?
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Literally, one of the lines in the song is “Whoever said money can’t solve your problems must not have had enough money to solve ’em.” Yeah, that’s most people in the world. Basically this a song sang by a rich girl and does not apply to most people. Congratulations top 1%. Lucky you.
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The music video is gross and pink. There are diamonds and champagne and butts and pink fur coats. Oh, and more pink. Not counting preparation for this article, I’ve already seen it more than necessary, and the pink doesn’t get better. It looks like Rachel’s horrendous bridesmaid dress from Friends got glamified.
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Don’t get me wrong, I was on board for “Thank u, next,” but I thought we were going to get a little bit away from songs by Ariana Grande about Ariana Grande’s life that are not applicable to anyone else but people sing them as if they are. Unless everyone almost married a guy named Pete and then went on a shopping spree at Tiffany’s, you know, the usual.
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By singing a song about how much money she has, she will make more money…to then sing more songs about her awesome life being a rich person. Cool.
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Is she trying to be Nicki Minaj?
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When I listened to it again, I realized that this is an Ariana Grande song, and it will be played a lot, and I will inevitably know the words by the end of the month.