{"id":729921,"date":"2026-06-27T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729921\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:23:09","slug":"ariana-grande-changes-ricky-alvarez-thank-u-next-lyrics-at-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729921\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Changes Ricky Alvarez &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; Lyrics at Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/ariana_grande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u00a0is giving a sweet shoutout to her ex-boyfriend Ricky Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, one day after the &#8220;Sweetener&#8221; singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1433397\/ariana-grande-ex-ricky-alvarez-hang-out-after-ethan-slater-breakup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">hung out with her ex<\/a>, she changed the lyrics about Alvarez in her song &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; during her Eternal Sunshine Tour concert in Austin, Texas, on her birthday June 26.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As seen in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@superduperhandsomeman\/video\/7655903252617235726?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">fan footage<\/a> from the concert, which Alvarez attended, Grande, 33, modified the lyrics to the track, sharing a hint about where she stands with the dancer, whom she dated from 2015 to 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In the verse about her ex-boyfriends, Grande sang, &#8220;Wrote some songs about Ricky \/ I know he still got my back,&#8221; the second part of which is a change from &#8220;Now I listen and laugh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the Arianators went wild over the lyric tweak, a concertgoer caught Alvarez&#8217;s live reaction to the change. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@alexisromo22\/video\/7655907202502315294?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">social footage<\/a>, the 33-year-old looked on and subtly smiled while a man\u2014who fans believe is Grande&#8217;s dad Edward Butera\u2014shook his hand. The singer&#8217;s mom Joan Grande also casually gestured to Alvarez during the shoutout.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande\u00a0is giving a sweet shoutout to her ex-boyfriend Ricky Alvarez. Indeed, one day after the &#8220;Sweetener&#8221; singer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-729921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}