We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)

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"We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)" is a song by Ariana Grande, released on March 8, 2024, as the second single from her seventh studio album, *Eternal Sunshine*. [1, 9]

Here are some key details about the song:

• Genre: It's a synth-pop, Europop, electropop, and power pop song with EDM influences. [1]
• Writing and Production: Grande wrote and produced the song with Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh. [1]
• Lyrical Meaning: The lyrics have dual interpretations. They address the end of a romantic relationship and Grande's complex relationship with the press and public scrutiny. [1, 2] Some lyrics, like "I didn't think you'd understand me, how could you ever even try?" express frustration, while the chorus, "We can't be friends, but I'd like to just pretend," reveals the struggle between wanting connection and needing to move on. [2, 7, 8]
• Music Video: The music video, directed by Christian Breslauer, draws inspiration from the 2004 film *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*. It features Grande undergoing a procedure to erase memories of her ex-boyfriend, played by Evan Peters. [1]
• Chart Performance: The song debuted at the top of the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande's ninth number-one single. [1] It also reached number one in several other countries and on the Billboard Global 200 chart. [1]
• Other lyrical interpretations The song speaks to acceptance of the end of some relationships. It describes feelings that come from processing a break up, such as missing someone, and the desire to separate from a partner. [2, 6]