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Ariana Grande Celebrates Body Positivity, The LBGT+ And Interracial Love In New Video

Everyone gets some action in the visual for "Everyday."

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Ariana Grande Celebrates Body Positivity, The LBGT+ And Interracial Love In New Video
Ariana Grande - "Everyday"

Ariana Grande dropped the music video for “Everyday” last night, and… boy is it something else!!!

Featuring various couples getting it on in some very public places as bystanders watch in a combination of horror, shock and admiration, this video is unlike anything she’s ever released.

However, despite the comedy, crudeness, and irony of the video, Grande’s latest videos pays a wonderful tribute to plus-sized body types, the LBGT+ community, and interracial couples.

(It's also sort of NSFW... so maybe don't watch it while other people are around!)


"Anytime, I'm alone, I can't help... thinking about you."

The video opens with a man and woman tearing each other’s clothes off on top of a car (with a driver still in the driver’s seat!). They are a bit larger than the average portrayal of couples performing sexual acts in a music video, and it's a refreshing change! The scene shifts into a laundromat where a lesbian couple bounces around the entire building, and when they slam against a vending machine, a patron finally gets the candy bar she was waiting for that got stuck on the way down. Grande also paid tribute to the LBGT+ during her Dangerous Woman Tour performance of "Thinking Bout You."

Grande next ends up in an office space, joined by Future for his verse on the track, where a black man and another woman of color find something much more interesting to do than make copies, all while their boss looks on. Finally, the video ends with Grande on a city bus as an elderly couple strips down in the middle of a moving vehicle!!! This was definitely something no one saw coming, but it’s still hilarious nevertheless. And Grande’s reactions to all of the couples are so nonchalant that it makes it an even more funny, quirky, odd, but overall enjoyable experience.

And, essentially, that’s what the message comes down to: anyone is capable of embracing their sexuality. No matter your skin color, your height, your weight, or your sexual orientation, you shouldn’t feel ashamed or afraid that sex is something you can never be allowed to enjoy.

We too often fall into the trap of letting society tell us that the white, thin, toned body is the only body attractive enough to warrant sex, and that sex is something that happens only between a man and a woman (don’t get me wrong - there is absolutely nothing wrong with a white, thin, toned body nor with heterosexuality). But if 2016 taught us anything, it’s that both of these notions just aren’t true anymore.

Whether you choose to acknowledge that or not is on you!

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