{"id":263568,"date":"2018-12-14T13:34:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ariana-grande-fans-think-imagine-is-about-mac-miller\/"},"modified":"2018-12-14T13:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T20:34:17","slug":"ariana-grande-fans-think-imagine-is-about-mac-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ariana-grande-fans-think-imagine-is-about-mac-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Fans Think &#8220;Imagine&#8221; Is About Mac Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.654919236417\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2016729\/rs_634x1024-160829082401-634.Mac-Miller-Ariana-Grande-VMA-After-Party-JR-082916.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Mac Miller, Ariana Grande\" alt=\"Mac Miller, Ariana Grande\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">247PAPS.TV \/ Splash News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.225609756098\">\n<p>Is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ariana_grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s new song &#8220;Imagine&#8221; about the late <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mac_miller\">Mac Miller<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>At midnight, the 25-year-old singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/us\/news\/996441\/listen-to-ariana-grande-s-romantic-new-single-imagine\" target=\"_blank\">released her latest track<\/a> off her upcoming album, <em>Thank U, Next<\/em>. After listening to the lyrics, many fans are convinced the song is about Grande&#8217;s ex, Miller, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/966506\/mac-miller-dead-at-26\" target=\"_blank\">passed away<\/a> in September at the age of 26. Miller and Grande dated for about two years before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/934042\/ariana-grande-and-mac-miller-break-up\" target=\"_blank\">their split was announced<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Grande described &#8220;Imagine&#8221; to her fans on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArianaGrande\/status\/1072704816219086848\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, explaining\u00a0that it&#8217;s like &#8220;pretending&#8221; a relationship &#8220;never ended&#8221; and being in &#8220;denial.&#8221; While she didn&#8217;t call out one specific relationship, there are a few references to Miller in the song.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.590361445783\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11.132530120482\">\n<p>&#8220;Staying up all night\/Order me pad thai\/Then we gon sleep til noon,&#8221; Grande sings on &#8220;Imagine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As fans on social media have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samanthabarlow_\/status\/1073495448378400768\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a>, these lyrics seem\u00a0to be a reference to Miller&#8217;s song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0fcsGS1dEro\" target=\"_blank\">Cinderella<\/a>,&#8221; which Grande <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArianaGrande\/status\/999314187384901633\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> back in May is about her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And when you hungry, I can chef you up a stir fry,&#8221; Miller raps in &#8220;Cinderella.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63.130097087379\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17.755339805825\">\n<p>Other lyrics to Miller&#8217;s song include, &#8220;You used to tell me all the time I ain&#8217;t your type\/Now you always wanna spend the night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Imagine,&#8221; Grande sings, &#8220;Knew you were perfect after the first kiss\/Took a deep breath like &#8216;Oooh&#8217;\/Feels like forever, baby, I never\/Thought that it would be you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the &#8220;Cinderella,&#8221; connection, Grande and Miller also shared their first kiss on camera for their 2013 &#8220;The Way&#8221; music video.<\/p>\n<p>Fans on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lufftheway\/status\/1072649922376318982\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0have also pointed out that Miller\u00a0had an &#8220;Imagine&#8221; tattoo.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>&#8220;A lot of this album mourns failed yet important, beautiful relationships in my life (as well as celebrates growth \/ exploring new independence),&#8221; Grande\u00a0told her fans on Instagram Story. &#8220;But for those of you asking about &#8216;Imagine&#8217;: I would say if &#8216;Thank U, Next&#8217; = acceptance&#8230; &#8216;Imagine&#8217; = denial. Hope that makes sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the lyric video for &#8220;Imagine&#8221; above!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/996769\/ariana-grande-fans-think-imagine-is-about-mac-miller?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>247PAPS.TV \/ Splash News Is Ariana Grande&#8216;s new song &#8220;Imagine&#8221; about the late Mac Miller? At midnight, the 25-year-old singer released her latest track off her upcoming album, Thank U, Next. After listening to the lyrics, many fans are convinced the song is about Grande&#8217;s ex, Miller, who passed away in September at the age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 03:48:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}