Ariana Grande’s music video “We can’t be friends” is viral and we absolutely love it! Let’s take a deep dive into each of the sets to unlock Ariana Grande’s style choices in this music video!
You will also find similar products in our Ariana Grande shop page so you can create a similar style!
Ariana Grande: A Phenomenon Shaping Pop Culture
Ariana Grande is undoubtedly one of the most influential and iconic figures in music and overall pop culture. With her astonishing vocals, versatile musical style blending pop, R&B, and soul, and ability to create infectious melodies, Ariana Grande has consistently delivered chart-topping hits. Her advocacy for social and political causes, including LGBTQ+ rights and mental health awareness, has long proved her significance as not just a pop superstar, but also a role model and voice for change. With sold-out world tours, billions of streams, and multiple Grammy Awards to her name, Ariana Grande’s career trajectory proves her unparalleled success and enduring relevance in the ever-evolving landscape of pop culture.
“We Can’t Be Friends” - the song background
Ariana Grande’s song “We Can’tBe Friends (Wait for Your Love)” was released through Republic Records on March 8, 2024, as the second single from her 7th studio album “Eternal Sunshine” (2024).
The song tells a story about a strained relationship, willingness to move on and completely erase the other person from all memories while at the same time struggling with the lingering feelings, finding it difficult to accept the reality, clinging to the past and hesitation to let go.
Released amidst a backdrop of critical acclaim for her previous works, including the Grammy-winning album “Sweetener” and its follow-up “thank u, next” the single “We can’t be friends” proves Ariana Grande’s artistic evolution and ability to create deep narratives. As the video for the song is made as a short movie, it makes the song resonate emotionally even more and it comes as a strong statement of Ariana Grande’s talent in storytelling and artistic vision.
In this post, we will dissect Ariana Grande’s music video “We can’t be friends” from the fashion lens, unlocking her wardrobe choices for you, so if you love her style in this video – keep reading!
Setting of Ariana Grande's 'We Can't Be Friends' Music Video: A Journey Through Memory and Sentiment
The main action of the music video is set in a medical facility “Brighter Days Inc” – invented place, as shown in the video, establishment where people can voluntarily submit themselves for a medical procedure of completely erasing any specific person from one’s memory.
The story begins with Ariana Grande’s character named Peaches sitting in the waiting room filling in her submission form. As she is accepted, the medical procedure of memory erase takes the duration of the whole song.
As each memory, associated with the loved person Ariana’s character Peaches is trying to forget, is being erased, the glimpse of that memory is being revealed, moving the set to a place where the memories took place. This way, the set is moved to 5 other places – mainly the vintage style decor house of Ariana Grande’s character Peaches (in separate memory scenes we see the bedroom, dining room and the living room of the house), as well as a bar with slot machines and a snow covered field.
All of the scenes are portrayed in vintage style decor, with dimmed lights, including candle light, evening-time settings and neon lights of slot machines, which helps deepen the feeling of sentiment and longing for the past, described in the lyrics of the song, even stronger.
Fashion choices
As the stage is set in a total of 6 different places throughout the duration of Ariana Grande’s music video “we can’t be friends”, the wardrobe changes as well. So let’s take a deep dive into each of the sets to unlock Ariana Grande’s style choices in every one of them!
You will find similar products in our Ariana Grande shop page so you can create a similar style!
In the bedroom scene, we see Ariana Grande wearing a navy blue V neck sweater styled with a mini skirt and sheepskin slippers, as she’s watching her lover sleep on the other side of the bed.
The outdoor scene in the snow
The scene changes to outdoors, where we can see Ariana Grande’s character Peaches and her lover lying on the ground making snow angels. Ariana is wearing a sand-colored wool coat. Under the coat we can see that she’s wearing a white round neck button up knit sweater and a mid length white skirt with checked stitching.
The dining room birthday scene
Another one of Ariana Grande’s character Peaches’ memories brings us to the dining room scene, where the character is apparently celebrating her birthday.
The scene is set in the late evening making it more sentimental and romantic. The room is completely dark except for the candles on the birthday cake. The character and her lover are both sitting on the table around the birthday cake, giving a sense that something truly special was shared between the characters and the candle light makes this scene even more intimate.
The living room scene is set in the daylight, and has an overall more casual day feel. Ariana Grande’s character is sitting on the couch in the living room with her lover as he surprises her with a gift – a golden necklace with pink apple pendant. This appears to be the last of the memories, as the necklace quickly changes to a dog’s collar and the lover in the scene is replaced with a dog.
Approaching a music video creation as a short film is a very rare choice these days.
First, in order to do that, the song itself needs to have a strong storytelling, which is incredibly rare, as we see more and more musicians approaching song writing as just finding words that rhyme together, words without thinking too much about the meaning.
Second, of course the production of short movie-like videos requires a solid budget, if done as meticulously as in Ariana Grande’s “we can’t be friends”.
On top of that, of course it’s the artist’s ability and willingness to pursue as an actor. Not many dare to take the challenge and in most cases, we will see the artist simply move around or perform a dance or take yet another path – go ahead with a digital visualisation.
With all of that said, we can clearly see that Ariana Grande’s video “we can’t be friends” is truly an exceptional piece in today’s music video trends.
Decoding Ariana Grande's signature style: takeaways from 'We can't be friends' music video
Ariana Grande’s character Peaches in the video “we can’t be friends” is not too different from the artist’s style that we’re used to. In the video, we can see Ariana Grande’s signature ponytail hairstyle, which establishes even stronger personal connection between the two, and the fashion style picks for the scenes we unlocked above all have the same romantic and sexy look favoured by the artist.
All of the unlocked looks share the trend of mini skirts and long leg high heels with a romantic detail to it – whether it’s flower embroidery on the boots or the flower print on the mini skirt, ribbon tie detail to the puff sleeve dress or the pink apple pendant golden necklace.
Although Ariana Grande has not officially declared the song to be autobiographical, there are enough similarities to make one think that the song creation was at least partially inspired by the artist’s personal experiences.
Outro
We hope this Ariana Grande’s “we can’t be friends” video fashion style review helped you pick up some ideas on how to pull up a similar style.
Check out our Ariana Grande shop page where we have lots of gems picked exclusively for Ariana Grande’s style and music fans. Also, make sure to read our post about Ariana Grande’s biography here as well as our review of Ariana Grande’s debut album “Yours Truly” here.
Stay tuned for our blog as we have some video style unlocks coming up!
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Unveiling fashion elegance: a review of Ariana Grande’s “We can’t be friends” music video
Ariana Grande’s music video “We can’t be friends” is viral and we absolutely love it! Let’s take a deep dive into each of the sets to unlock Ariana Grande’s style choices in this music video!
You will also find similar products in our Ariana Grande shop page so you can create a similar style!
Ariana Grande: A Phenomenon Shaping Pop Culture
Ariana Grande is undoubtedly one of the most influential and iconic figures in music and overall pop culture. With her astonishing vocals, versatile musical style blending pop, R&B, and soul, and ability to create infectious melodies, Ariana Grande has consistently delivered chart-topping hits. Her advocacy for social and political causes, including LGBTQ+ rights and mental health awareness, has long proved her significance as not just a pop superstar, but also a role model and voice for change. With sold-out world tours, billions of streams, and multiple Grammy Awards to her name, Ariana Grande’s career trajectory proves her unparalleled success and enduring relevance in the ever-evolving landscape of pop culture.
“We Can’t Be Friends” - the song background
Ariana Grande’s song “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” was released through Republic Records on March 8, 2024, as the second single from her 7th studio album “Eternal Sunshine” (2024).
The song tells a story about a strained relationship, willingness to move on and completely erase the other person from all memories while at the same time struggling with the lingering feelings, finding it difficult to accept the reality, clinging to the past and hesitation to let go.
Released amidst a backdrop of critical acclaim for her previous works, including the Grammy-winning album “Sweetener” and its follow-up “thank u, next” the single “We can’t be friends” proves Ariana Grande’s artistic evolution and ability to create deep narratives. As the video for the song is made as a short movie, it makes the song resonate emotionally even more and it comes as a strong statement of Ariana Grande’s talent in storytelling and artistic vision.
In this post, we will dissect Ariana Grande’s music video “We can’t be friends” from the fashion lens, unlocking her wardrobe choices for you, so if you love her style in this video – keep reading!
Setting of Ariana Grande's 'We Can't Be Friends' Music Video: A Journey Through Memory and Sentiment
The main action of the music video is set in a medical facility “Brighter Days Inc” – invented place, as shown in the video, establishment where people can voluntarily submit themselves for a medical procedure of completely erasing any specific person from one’s memory.
The story begins with Ariana Grande’s character named Peaches sitting in the waiting room filling in her submission form. As she is accepted, the medical procedure of memory erase takes the duration of the whole song.
As each memory, associated with the loved person Ariana’s character Peaches is trying to forget, is being erased, the glimpse of that memory is being revealed, moving the set to a place where the memories took place. This way, the set is moved to 5 other places – mainly the vintage style decor house of Ariana Grande’s character Peaches (in separate memory scenes we see the bedroom, dining room and the living room of the house), as well as a bar with slot machines and a snow covered field.
All of the scenes are portrayed in vintage style decor, with dimmed lights, including candle light, evening-time settings and neon lights of slot machines, which helps deepen the feeling of sentiment and longing for the past, described in the lyrics of the song, even stronger.
Fashion choices
As the stage is set in a total of 6 different places throughout the duration of Ariana Grande’s music video “we can’t be friends”, the wardrobe changes as well. So let’s take a deep dive into each of the sets to unlock Ariana Grande’s style choices in every one of them!
You will find similar products in our Ariana Grande shop page so you can create a similar style!
Medical facility “Brighter Days Inc” scene
In this scene Ariana Grande is wearing a short puff sleeve grey v-neck top tucked into a pleated denim mini skirt, together with a faux fur lining denim coat and brown high heel boots with flower embroidery. She also has a grey knitted scarf around her neck and a red embroidered detail mini handbag.
Slot machines bar scene
As this first memory is revealed in the story telling of Ariana Grande’s music video “we can’t be friends”, she is wearing a black knit short sleeve turtleneck sweater, flower print mini skirt matched with flower print long leg high heels and a black mini handbag with a silver chain handle.
The bedroom scene
In the bedroom scene, we see Ariana Grande wearing a navy blue V neck sweater styled with a mini skirt and sheepskin slippers, as she’s watching her lover sleep on the other side of the bed.
The outdoor scene in the snow
The scene changes to outdoors, where we can see Ariana Grande’s character Peaches and her lover lying on the ground making snow angels. Ariana is wearing a sand-colored wool coat. Under the coat we can see that she’s wearing a white round neck button up knit sweater and a mid length white skirt with checked stitching.
The dining room birthday scene
Another one of Ariana Grande’s character Peaches’ memories brings us to the dining room scene, where the character is apparently celebrating her birthday.
The scene is set in the late evening making it more sentimental and romantic. The room is completely dark except for the candles on the birthday cake. The character and her lover are both sitting on the table around the birthday cake, giving a sense that something truly special was shared between the characters and the candle light makes this scene even more intimate.
Ariana Grande’s character Peaches is wearing a cream colour puff shoulder round neck dress.
The living room scene
The living room scene is set in the daylight, and has an overall more casual day feel. Ariana Grande’s character is sitting on the couch in the living room with her lover as he surprises her with a gift – a golden necklace with pink apple pendant. This appears to be the last of the memories, as the necklace quickly changes to a dog’s collar and the lover in the scene is replaced with a dog.
In this scene we see Ariana Grande wearing a white cropped fluffy long sleeve cardigan styled with a white vest and camouflage print leggings.
Overall style of the video
Approaching a music video creation as a short film is a very rare choice these days.
First, in order to do that, the song itself needs to have a strong storytelling, which is incredibly rare, as we see more and more musicians approaching song writing as just finding words that rhyme together, words without thinking too much about the meaning.
Second, of course the production of short movie-like videos requires a solid budget, if done as meticulously as in Ariana Grande’s “we can’t be friends”.
On top of that, of course it’s the artist’s ability and willingness to pursue as an actor. Not many dare to take the challenge and in most cases, we will see the artist simply move around or perform a dance or take yet another path – go ahead with a digital visualisation.
With all of that said, we can clearly see that Ariana Grande’s video “we can’t be friends” is truly an exceptional piece in today’s music video trends.
Decoding Ariana Grande's signature style: takeaways from 'We can't be friends' music video
Ariana Grande’s character Peaches in the video “we can’t be friends” is not too different from the artist’s style that we’re used to. In the video, we can see Ariana Grande’s signature ponytail hairstyle, which establishes even stronger personal connection between the two, and the fashion style picks for the scenes we unlocked above all have the same romantic and sexy look favoured by the artist.
All of the unlocked looks share the trend of mini skirts and long leg high heels with a romantic detail to it – whether it’s flower embroidery on the boots or the flower print on the mini skirt, ribbon tie detail to the puff sleeve dress or the pink apple pendant golden necklace.
Although Ariana Grande has not officially declared the song to be autobiographical, there are enough similarities to make one think that the song creation was at least partially inspired by the artist’s personal experiences.
Outro
We hope this Ariana Grande’s “we can’t be friends” video fashion style review helped you pick up some ideas on how to pull up a similar style.
Check out our Ariana Grande shop page where we have lots of gems picked exclusively for Ariana Grande’s style and music fans. Also, make sure to read our post about Ariana Grande’s biography here as well as our review of Ariana Grande’s debut album “Yours Truly” here.
Stay tuned for our blog as we have some video style unlocks coming up!
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