On the heels of dropping her eagerly anticipated Everlasting Sunshine album, Ariana Grande additionally debuted the futuristic video for the gathering’s new single, “We Can’t Be Associates (Wait For Your Love)” on Friday morning (March 8).
The singer teased the clip final week with a picture from the ready room by which she indicators a consent kind stating, “You could have given intensive thought behind your determination and provides ‘Brighter Days Inc.’ the unique permission to take away this particular person fully out of your reminiscence,” as her pen hovers over the field marked “No,” earlier than the 30-year-old pop star opts for “Sure” on the final second and signing her identify as “Peaches.”
That scene from the Christian Breslauer-directed visible is the opening act of a moody video that finds Grande — sporting a furry gray coat over a mini costume and knee-high boots and sporting some dramatic, tribal-like make-up round her left eye — sitting within the drab, wood-paneled foyer of the Brighter Days Inc. clinic awaiting an appointment with a health care provider. When Peaches’ identify is known as, Grande grabs a white field full of reminiscences and enters a surgical procedure area, the place she lays again on a chair as she begins to sing the ballad’s introspective lyrics.
“I didn’t assume you’d perceive me/ How may you ever even strive,” she sings as a nurse takes a stuffed bear out of the field and a display exhibits the teddy’s mind scan. “I don’t need to tip-toe, however I don’t need to conceal/ However I don’t need to feed this monstrous fireplace,” she continues over the music’s effervescent beat whereas being fitted with a silver headband with glowing pink contacts on her temples.
The scene then jumps to a Eighties-style online game arcade because the tempo builds and Grande and a boyfriend pluck the bear from a claw machine and he or she guarantees to “wait on your love.” The heartbreak ballad about vowing to fake till a love is rekindled is a travelogue of fine instances — together with a shout-out to the ultimate iconic birthday cake scene in 1984 coming-of-age traditional Sixteen Candles — blended with the present-day footage of Grande receiving the love-erasing process.
The storyline of the video — which ends with Grande blithely passing her outdated love and his new girlfriend whereas strolling along with her new man — ought to come as no shock given Grande’s avowed love of Jim Carrey’s equally themed 2004 love removing machine sci-fi drama Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts, which Grande tapped as an inspiration for the album’s title.
In that Michel Gondry-directed film, Carrey and girlfriend Kate Winslet’s characters, Joel and Clementine, bear mind surgical procedure to wipe all of the reminiscences of their painful breakup. So, within the lead-up to the album’s launch, Grande posted photographs and movies by which she dressed up in outfits and hairstyles impressed by the movie’s main girl.
The midtempo monitor is the second single from Everlasting Sunshine, following the January Billboard Sizzling 100 chart-topping hit “Sure, And?” Grande has beforehand stated that she wouldn’t be issuing any extra songs forward of her seventh studio album’s launch. Grande would be the musical visitor on this weekend’s Saturday Night time Dwell alongside Dune 2’s Josh Brolin.
Watch the “Wait For Your Love” video under.
