{"id":468236,"date":"2026-06-09T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/468236\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:59:11","slug":"ariana-grande-changed-thank-u-next-lyrics-amid-ethan-slater-breakup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/468236\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Changed &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; Lyrics Amid Ethan Slater Breakup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imperfect For Each Other: November 2024<\/p>\n<p>A month after he showed support for Grande\u2019s October 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/saturday_night_live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> hosting gig, Slater addressed their relationship\u2014and the scrutiny surrounding it\u2014for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an amazing year and a really beautiful thing,\u201d Slater reflected on falling in love with Grande while filming Wicked in a Oct. 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1409298\/ethan-slater-addresses-really-difficult-speculation-about-ariana-grande-relationship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GQ<\/a> interview. \u201cI\u2019m just really excited. I\u2019m just really, really proud of Ari and the work she\u2019s done on this. She\u2019s poured herself into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Slater admitted he found it difficult to wait for people to like him again as they clung to their papers and pens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there was something that was really difficult about things in your private life being commented on and looked at by the public,\u201d he added. \u201cThere were a lot of big changes in private lives that were really happening, so it\u2019s really hard to see people who don\u2019t know anything about what\u2019s happening commenting on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he was able to block out the noise somewhat. As he added of Grande\u2019s song \u201cImperfect For You,\u201d which is rumored to be about him, \u201cI love that song.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imperfect For Each Other: November 2024 A month after he showed support for Grande\u2019s October 2024 Saturday Night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-468236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}