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"Positions" is a song recorded by American singer Ariana Grande. The song was released by Republic Records on October 23, 2020, as the lead single from Grande's sixth studio album of the same name. The song was written by Grande, Angelina Barrett, Brian Vincent Bates, Nija Charles, James Jarvis, Tommy Brown, London on da Track, and Mr. Franks, and produced by the latter three.
"Positions" is a midtempo pop–R&B song built around trap beats, plucked guitar, and viola, seeing Grande extend romantic overtures to her love interest. The song was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented its breezy and mellow sound. The song's music video, directed by Dave Meyers, accompanied the song's release, and depicts Grande as the President of the United States.
The song debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande's fifth US number-one single and extending her record of being the first artist to have five number-one debut singles on the chart and for being the only artist to have the lead singles of each of her albums debut within the top-10 of the chart. It also debuted at number one on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S., making "Positions" the first song to simultaneously debut atop both charts and the Hot 100. Additionally, "Positions" topped the charts in Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and the United Kingdom, giving Grande her seventh number-one in the UK. It also peaked in the top-10 of the charts in 30 other countries.
Composition
"Positions" is a midtempo pop–R&B song with elements of trap. According to Musicnotes.com, The song is written in the key of D minor with a tempo of 72 beats per minute, while Grande's vocal range spans from the low note of G3 to the high note of D5. Lyrically, the song is about Grande describing her dedication to her lover and her willingness to try new things for him. Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club wrote that the song is "a tune about settling down while preserving your sense of self". Other lyrics, such as the chorus, in which she sings, "Switchin' them positions for you/Cookin' in the kitchen and I’m in the bedroom" include sexual innuendos. Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos referred to the track as a "straightforward plea to get down and dirty any time, any place". It has been speculated that the song was written about Grande's current boyfriend, Dalton Gomez. Others suspected that one of the song's lyrics ("I'm just hopin' I don't repeat history") was a veiled reference to her ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson, due to a pause in between the syllables in "repeat". The song's instrumentation features pizzicato guitar plucking, viola, trap drums, and the sound of crickets chirping. It was described by Dani Blum of Pitchfork as a "slinky sex jam" which "drape harmonies over hazy synths". The Observer's Kate Hutchinson compared the song's composition to that of Craig David's 2000 single "7 Days".
Music video
The accompanying music video for "Positions" was released along with the song on October 23, 2020. The video was directed by Dave Meyers, and depicts Grande as the President of the United States. Many of the video's scenes were filmed at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. The video received over one million views on YouTube within an hour of its release. On October 26, a behind-the-scenes video was posted to Grande's YouTube channel. As of March 2021, the music video has received over 250 million views on YouTube and more than 500 million streams on Spotify.
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