In the chorus of “Ghostin,” Ariana Grande sings, “I know that it breaks your heart when I cry again / ‘stead of ghostin’ him.” Grande’s partner is sad that she can’t cut ties with her past love — or, that she is focusing more on someone who has passed than on the man right in front of her. Grande is still adamant that she and her current partner will come out the other side stronger: “We’ll get through this, we’ll get past this, I’m a girl with / a whole lot of baggage / but I love you, we’ll get past this […].”
However, if the current partner in the song is indeed meant to be Pete Davidson, their relationship did not make it — they broke off their engagement in October 2018, shortly after Mac Miller’s death.
Despite the two songs being tonally different, the reference to baggage is reminiscent of another track on “Thank U, Next” — Grande’s “7 Rings,” when she sings, “Been through some bad s***, I should be a sad b***h / Who woulda thought it’d turn me to a savage?”
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