Hours after the visual accompaniment to Ariana Grande’s \u00ab\u00a0Thank U, Next\u00a0\u00bb broke YouTube and Vevo records, the songstress took to Twitter to take her fans inside the making of the chart-topping video, which is modeled after the best romantic comedies\u2026<\/b>
\nHours after the visual accompaniment to Ariana Grande’s \u00ab\u00a0Thank U, Next\u00a0\u00bb broke YouTube and Vevo records, the songstress took to Twitter to take her fans inside the making of the chart-topping video, which is modeled after the best romantic comedies of the early 2000s. In the clip, a pink marabou-clad Grande introduces her Arianators to her \u00ab\u00a0first number one single\u00a0\u00bb before she attempts to perfect the \u00ab\u00a0bend and snap,\u00a0\u00bb hugs Jennifer Coolidge (aka Paulette), and models some of the most iconic scenes from Legally Blonde. If you loved the music video, you’re not going to want to miss this, because the \u00ab\u00a0Thank U, Next\u00a0\u00bb behind-the-scenes video shows Ariana Grande living the Elle Woods life, and I couldn’t be more jealous.
Early on Sunday, Dec. 2, Grande headed to Twitter to show fans that while the \u00ab\u00a0bend and snap\u00a0\u00bb move made famous by the 2001 cult favorite film Legally Blonde might not have been that easy to nail, she had a whole lot of fun trying to perfect it. Simply captioned with a black heart, the behind-the-scenes video shows a montage of scenes playing homage to Legally Blonde and Mean Girls, and the best part of the whole thing is the \u00ab\u00a0God Is A Woman\u00a0\u00bb hitmaker showing her team how the \u00ab\u00a0bend and snap\u00a0\u00bb is done. TBH, it’s no wonder that the OG Elle Woods, Reese Witherspoon, shared her approval a few days earlier, although Grande admitted that she had to slightly tweak the move for legal reasons.
After Witherspoon revealed that Grande had passed the test with flying colors on Friday, Nov. 30, tweeting \u00ab\u00a0Can we please talk about @ArianaGrande’s Bend and Snap?! 10\/10 nailed it! #thankunext,\u00a0\u00bb the 25-year-old was basically all of us with her fangirl response .
She wrote:
Even if it wasn’t quite the same as the original, I think we can all agree that she completely nailed it.
\u00ab\u00a0Thank U, Next\u00a0\u00bb made headlines on Saturday after YouTube revealed that the music video set a new record for the most views in the first 24 hours of its release (FYI, Grande managed to break the all-time record in just 22 hours). The unprecedented success of the music video was due, no doubt, in part to the mysterious teases on social media that the \u00ab\u00a0Side To Side\u00a0\u00bb songstress had been sharing for weeks. Especially in the days leading up to the drop of \u00ab\u00a0Thank U, Next,\u00a0\u00bb Grande shared cameos of Mean Girls actor Jonathan Bennett and stills that hinted that the video was an homage for all our favorite romantic comedies, helping drum up the excitement for the music video into a full-blown frenzy.
It’s further proof that sometimes heartbreak can lead to your best work, and while \u00ab\u00a0Thank U, Next\u00a0\u00bb was penned shortly after the starlet’s breakup with then-fianc\u00e9 Pete Davidson, it looks like Grande had a whole lot of fun getting her closure and is ready to say \u00ab\u00a0next.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n