Ariana Grande is president in new music video, and that's a world we'd like to live in

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Ariana Grande is president in new music video, and that's a world we'd like to live in
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Ariana Grande has blessed us with a brand new music video for her latest single (and certified bop) "Positions," — and it presents an alternate universe that we'd like to live in.

Grande is President of the United States in this Dave Meyers-directed video, in which she can be seen running the Oval Office (no doubt making excellent decisions), putting a medal on a USPS worker, and walking her dogs across the grounds of the White House.

Oh, and we even get a cameo from Ari's mum, Joan Grande.

Grande's song seems to be about the myriad different roles that women take on in relationships — even those in the most senior positions of power. While Grande is occupying the topmost position of power in the country, she's also "Switching the positions for you/ Cooking in the kitchen and I’m in the bedroom/ I’m in the Olympics way I’m jumping through hoops."

She must be exhausted.

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.


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