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But I am arguing that itвЂ™s Friday, IвЂ™m at work, and if Ariana Grande were to take on a typical billionaireвЂ™s grating posture of frugality, not only would I know sheвЂ™s lying, IвЂ™d also be watching a boring music video. IвЂ™m not arguing that a multi-millionaire buying expensive jewelry for a few members of her inner circle constitutes wealth redistribution. вЂњIвЂ™d rather spoil all my friends with my riches,вЂќ Grande promises, midway through the song. She is telling me IвЂ™m successful and beautiful, neither of which is as true as it could be, but feels good to hear all the same. She is not stealing my personal information or fudging the tenets of democracy. The public good they purport to serve is almost always actually their own business interests, even when theyвЂ™re boasting major charitable donations, and each time they speak weвЂ™re reminded only of the eyeball-popping tension between their enormous sense of self-importance and simultaneous refusal to accept responsibility for anything that results from their actions.ДЄ person like Ariana Grande, on the other hand, has been publicly put through the wringer for events that were in no way her fault and which caused her extreme personal pain, yet the sole objective of her career is to dole out three-minute reprieves to the rest of us. The tycoons and tech gods sure arenвЂ™t letting us have any fun with their money.

(Heads up: You might be asked to sign in to Google first.) Become a member of the Vox Video Lab on YouTube today. Following a year of discussion about rich people hair maintenance, she leans into the joke: вЂњYou like my hair? Gee, thanks, just bought it.вЂќ вЂњHappiness is the same price as red-bottoms,вЂќ she explains patiently. вЂњLook at my neck, look at my jet,вЂќ Grande orders. вЂњI see it, I like it, I want it, I got it,вЂќ goes the chorus, propped up by a list of specifics. SheвЂ™s also, I hope, the only pop star who would dare to put a Barbie palace and an homage to Two ChainzвЂ™ pink trap house in the same video.Д«ut more importantly: The plot of the song is Ariana shopping, for herself and for her friends - six of whom she gifted matching Tiffany diamond rings last fall. Part of the fun of вЂњ7 RingsвЂќ - which is based on The Sound of MusicвЂ™s вЂњMy Favorite ThingsвЂќ - comes from the fact that Ariana Grande is perhaps the only person in the world who could credibly release a trap-infused rework of a Rodgers and Hammerstein joint.

What could possibly make more sense this January than the princess of buoyant, life-affirming choruses bragging about Louboutins and borrowing her ad libs from Travis Scott? Vevo Or, most optimistically, we are all broke, but вЂњ7 Rings will fix the economy.вЂќДЇive years after Lorde appeared on the scene co-opting the sonic textures of hip-hop while sneering at its wealth fascination, eight months after the first sugary rap-pop collaboration from Tiffany & Co, a few weeks after even the New York Times came to the realization that rap is popular culture and Cardi BвЂ™s Cinderella story will appear in future social studies textbooks, вЂњ7 RingsвЂќ is such a crystallization of its moment that it feels like the only logical first bop of 2019. They are broke, but they are ordering a fancier coffee today. They are broke, but they are going to spend their last dollar. Or they are broke, but they are going to pretend to be rich.

Search the term on Twitter, and youвЂ™ll see what I mean: droves of people expressing that they are broke, but they are happy that Grande is rich. Ariana GrandeвЂ™s new song вЂњ7 Rings,вЂќ and its accompanying video, both of which serve as a three-minute crash course on what itвЂ™s like to have endless money and no qualms about spending it, debuted to a fairly one-note response.

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