Ariana Grande followers have clocked what they imagine to be a delicate tribute to Mac Miller on the pop star’s current album ‘Positions’.
The singer launched her sixth studio effort final month (October 30) following on from 2019’s ‘Thank U, Next’.
TikTok consumer Maralee Bell has since shared a video during which she highlights a “hidden reference” to the late rapper Miller, who dated Grande for 2 years earlier than they cut up in 2018.
She claims that the report’s title monitor options the sound of crickets when the star sings the road “Heaven despatched you to me”, with the identical impact showing on ‘Simply Like Magic’ as Grande delivers the lyrics, “Take my pen and write some love letters to heaven”.
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It’s urged that it is a delicate nod to Miller and his unreleased monitor ‘Crickets’.
In a follow-up video, Bell additionally factors out {that a} chord development in ‘Positions’ lower ‘Apparent’ is identical as that heard in Miller’s ‘Come Again To Earth’, which options on his 2018 album ‘Swimming’.
The clips have collectively clocked up over 500,000 ‘likes’ on TikTok, with many followers posting the theories to Twitter and past. You’ll be able to see each movies above.
Miller passed away in September 2018 at the age of 26 following an unintended overdose.
Again in January, the producer of Miller’s posthumous album ‘Circles’ said he believed Grande’s vocals made a secret appearance on the record. It got here amid hypothesis that the singer may very well be heard on the tune ‘I Can See’.
Grande looked back on the rapper’s passion for music earlier this 12 months, saying she believed “nothing mattered extra to him than music, ever”.
“He was the sort of one who awakened, tumbled away from bed [and] into the studio subsequent door. Nothing was extra essential,” she remembered.