Ariana Grande Would Rather Listen to Miley Than Kanye and Drake's Beef

Last night, while some ventured into holiday revelry and others followed along holding their breath as online drama unfolded, Kanye West aired out his grievances with Drake through the a tweetstorm. The full thing took hours. Kim Kardashian West eventually weighed in, also. And all of the while, Ariana Grande was readying the release of her latest single, "Imagine."


To back up for a moment, Ari's been downright prolific lately, dropping her fourth album, Sweetener, in August and starting essentially an entire new campaign with the mega-viral "Thank U, Next" in early November. She's got an album of the same name prepared to go, and "Imagine" was due to be our next taste of it. She was pumped. Each person was pumped.


And then Kanye tweeted about Drake. Ari, though, was understandably more focused on her impending song, so she sent out a fast reminder on Twitter because the hour approached. "If y'all could please jus behave for just like a number of hours so the ladies can shine that'd be so sick thank u," she tweeted. "Imagine" soon followed.


It's a good song, one that captures a certain sort of affection and attraction and aims to sustain it because the perfect, most celebratory memory, the kind you desire to keep coming back to again and again. Some fans think it's about Ari's late ex Mac Miller because he had the word "imagine" tattooed on his right arm. She also called the song the "denial" to the acceptance noticed in "Thank U, Next," nevertheless later clarified it was meant to be wide open to interpretation among her fans and their own experiences.


Grande's tweet also shouted out pal Miley Cyrus, who was gearing for a release of her own: a cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" featuring Mark Ronson and John and Yoko's son, Sean. Cyrus underscored the point with a fast tweet cosign: "Didn’t they hear the news?! War IS over! Thank you, next!"


Interestingly enough, "Happy Xmas" is indeed a John Lennon cover, while Ari's "Imagine" isn't — it just happens to share the title. Was this offered? A masterstroke of social marketing? A coincidence? Who understands, man. Yet both songs are out, and also you could (and should) listen to them now.