Positions (song)

“Positions” is a song recorded by American singer Ariana Grande. It was released on October 23, 2020, as the lead single from her sixth studio album of the same name. The song is a midtempo pop and R&B song with elements of trap. It debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande’s fifth US number-one single. It also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand and Ireland.

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Summary Positions (song)“Positions” is a song recorded by American singer Ariana Grande. It was released on October 23, 2020, as the lead single from her sixth studio album of the same name. The song is a midtempo pop and R&B song with elements of trap. It debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande’s fifth US number-one single. It also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Ireland, Israel, Singapore and the United Kingdom. It has been speculated that the song was written about Grande’s current boyfriend, Dalton Gomez. Others suspected that one of the song’s lyrics was a veiled reference to her ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson, due to a pause in between the syllables in \”repeat\”. The song’s instrumentation features pizzicato guitar plucking, violin, trap drums, and the sound of crickets chirping. It received generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented its breezy and mellow sound. It is the only lead single of each of Grande’s albums to debut within the top-10 of the chart. It also peaked within theTop ten of the charts of other 16 countries, with the latter giving Grande her seventh number-1 in the country, and giving her a total of seven number-ones in the UK.

The song has been compared to Justin Bieber’s “Knew Better” and Mariah Carey’s work in the late 1990s and early 2000s, which he identified as a cause for light, breezy, and early Timberlake–style music for young people. The music video, directed by Dave Meyers, depicts Grande as the President of the U.S. and depicts her as the Queen of the United States. The video was released to coincide with the release of her sixth album on October 21, 2020. Grande took to Twitter to announce that her upcoming album was set to be released that same month. On October 17, she posted a slow-motion teaser video of her typing out the word ‘positions’ on a keyboard. The teaser was followed-up by a countdown launched on her website. Later that day, she revealed the release date and revealed the cover art and revealed a snippet of the track to her social media. \”Positions\” was released for digital download and streaming on October23, and was serviced to contemporary hit radio stations four days later. Lyrically, the song is about Grande describing her dedication to her lover.