
Too common is the scenario where an artist’s talent is belittled just as their star rises, like when popularity invited cynicism to Lil Peep and Juice WLRD until their premature demises rendered their geniuses unimpeachable. If an artist is “lucky,” they will live long enough to have their contributions simply forgotten, as with innovators undersung in their middle age like the late DMX and Shock G. However, a piece of paper allegedly written by Grande also suggests that it was the eleventh track at an earlier point in time.People will take you for granted until you’re gone, a truth hip-hop is intimately familiar with.The song was supposed to be the seventh track of the album (teased on a departures bill board from Grande's music video for " Breathin").This song is referenced in the description of the Thank U, Next album on Apple Music.
This song features background vocals from Victoria Monét. Mac Miller used this exact sample in his song "Blue World" from his 2020 posthumous album, Circles. Most demos of the song sample "It's A Blue World" by The Four Freshmen in its intro. It was said that this was the final pop version, but not the final version overall.Īll of the demos leaked on March 27, 2023, along with the pro tools for the song during the mass leak. An edited version, confirmed to be similar to Demo five leaked on June 28, 2022, along with the instrumental and acapella for it. Demo one of the song leaked on June 22, 2022, in medium quality, but a higher quality version was then later leaked. Another snippet leaked in August of 2021. Ī snippet of this song was leaked back in December of 2020. It is thought that this song is about Grande's ex-boyfriend, Mac Miller who died on September 7, 2018, from an accidental drug overdose. The title of the song was soon teased on a departures bill board from Grande's music video for " Breathin", the third single from her fourth studio album Sweetener prior her decision to scrapping this song from the album. Grande decided she didn’t want to release the song as she felt it was too personal and it was about her late ex-boyfriend, Mac Miller. The song was intended to be on Grande's fifth album, Thank U, Next, but it was replaced by " Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored".