In the middle of "thank u, next," the game-changing monster of a hit single that she released last year, Ariana Grande makes an announcement about her romantic life: "I met someone else, we having better discussions / I know they say I move on too fast / But this one is gonna last." It's all a fake-out, of course. The new person in Grande's life is Grande herself. In the midst of a song that finds sly and subtle ways to comment on Grande's own recent tabloid-narrative past, it's a way to assert agency, to take control.