Ariana Grande Goes Heavy-Handed and Provocative in "God Is a Woman"
Not even a week after she appeared next to a sandy mermaid version of Nicki Minaj in "Beds," Ariana Grande released the third single from her upcoming album, Sweetener, and it's a strong contender for the song of the summer. Titled "God Is a Woman," Grande's new song seems to be channeling Madonna circa "Like a Prayer," mixing the pretty and the provocative.
Like Janelle Monae's "Pynk," the video is gloriously heavy-handed, with overt vaginal imagery and Grande towering above trolls, straddling the planet Earth like a colossus while massaging the center of a hurricane, and throwing a gigantic hammer through a dome made of window panels, literally shattering a glass ceiling. In the video's final shots, she even appears as God in Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam."
Meanwhile, model boyfriend Pete Davidson is just as supportive and in awe as you'd expect from someone dating a deity.
