The long-term effect of the short engagement of Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson

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It's been a year since the singer and the Saturday Night Live The star is engaged, diamonds and tattoos promising to take the plunge barely a month after the start of their relationship.

However, it has also been eight months since skeptics proved that they were right and that they broke up. But pop culture as we know it would not be the same if these two had not thought of a bright and brilliant moment that they had a long-term potential – like any other couple who has the greatest hopes in the beginning, less the $ 100,000 ring and a $ 16 million condo.

Love and loss inspire art since the dawn of civilization. Even more than happiness and sorrow, it's the chaos – internal and external – and the roller coaster ride of the human experience that has fueled some of our greatest literatures, movies, TVs, and music, and the dazzling seduction of Ariana and Pete was no exception. .

For starters, Grande had a flood of feelings to deal with, having become so serious with Davidson after going through the full range of emotions from the previous year, and she went to the studio to fix the problem.

The first result: Sweetener, including the track "Pete Davidson."

"I believed you in my life, whoa / Look in my head, yeah / No better place or once / see how they line up," says the song.

"Life is too short," she says frankly Zach Sang's show in August, when asked what had been his big delivery in 2018 so far. "Just … this, life is too short, be grateful and be happy, and be happy impulses, and the rest will be able to do it all by myself." Having pure intentions, wanting what is good for others, c & rsquo; Is everything. "

"For example, my mother cries when we are at FaceTime because I'm so happy and I'm fine," she said.

SweetenerThe first single of "No Tears Left to Cry" was released in April 2018 when, as the world was about to find out, Grande was really struggling in her relationship with Mac Miller and still carries the pain of the terrorist bombing that killed 22 people after his concert at the Manchester Arena last June.

By the end of May 2018, Davidson was going shopping.

The fall of the actor then aged 24 a few weeks after his separation with Miller seemed suspicious at the time, but Grande was simply ready to let the light come back after a traumatic year. The music about bouncing soon followed in the form of empowering singles "God is a Woman" and "Breathin '".

"I think it's a personal growth, I spent a ton of time in therapy last year – which is great, me, so recommend it if you need it, "she told Sang. And music and work on yourself, dedicate yourself to your craft, make healthy choices. "

Pete brought his own problems to the relationship (of which he had already spoken frankly before the recognition of his name beyond SNL multiplied by one hundred), but their connection seemed pretty easy on the surface.

"I think timing is essential," said Davidson. Howard Stern in September. "We were both in a similar situation at the same time." He was as single as Grande, barely out of his own two-year relationship with Cassie David.

"I'm a very, very lucky guy," he says, crunching, "Yeah, I do not know what happened."

He proposed, they moved in together and, of course, Davidson – already a rising star on SNL-has become the most used of the series, his appearances in "Weekend Update" and wherever they could add a nod and a wink to inform people of his love life, even if it is subtle, in making an appointment for television (or at least a must watch the clip online the next morning).

"I have to tell you, until about two months ago, if someone wrote about me, I saw it," Davidson said. GQ last summer. "Nobody gave one two months ago, so every time an article is published, I obviously see it, because my mother sent it to me and said," Yaaay! "

On the first season of SNL he called his fiancée "the number one pop star in the world" and himself "this guy from SNL that everyone thinks they desperately need more blood. "

Sweetener made its debut at No. 1 and eventually became platinum, rising from 1 million "units" when you factor in physical sales, downloads and streaming. Everyone, from his mother to Jimmy Fallon, said to Grande that she had never looked so happy.

And while Pete, who shut down his Instagram and then reinstated it, turned it back, he said that many online trolls still pledged to tell him he was bad (most of them seemed Furiously jealous that he was with Ariana & # 39; t), most people really supported him. And for her.

If it's not necessarily rooted for them as a couple, together.

Their relationship was ultimately so short that they never went beyond the stage of quirk, the state of romantic curiosity as a Davidson – both timid and serious – marveling at his incredible fortune and that Grande seemed to take unawares. -fact stride.

"I am not like a very traditional person, so the fact that I am getting married is something that I have never even seen coming," said Grande to Zach Sang. "I've never seen that coming, like, I've never wanted that, like, I was," F-k that, it's useless. " I thought, "What is the purpose?" And then I understood a little when it was as if with the right person. "

Ask by Troye Sivan for Paper She said, "All I know is that I'm happy with Pete, that's all that really interests me."

Of course, we will never know what exact course Ariana and Pete could have followed alone if the tragedy, in all its heartbreaking injustice and disorder, had not interrupted it.

On September 7th, Mac Miller died of an accidental overdose. Very quickly, Great realized that even though life was short, it was time for her to reevaluate rather than dive unrestrainedly forward.

A month later, she and Davidson end their engagement and separate.

"Their relationship was complicated and, while they were enjoying each other, the death of his ex-boyfriend weighed heavily on them both," said a source to E! News at the time.

Both creative, they sought to manage their respective trauma in the best possible way, through their art. Grande was filming NBC A very nasty Halloween special days later, then sent to the studio. Davidson went to LA to attend a charity event, where he admitted he did not want to be there, but still cracked the public with jokes about separation. And he did not miss a beat SNL, automatically turning his heart into comedy sorrow with a conscious and vulnerable glow in his eyes before saying in his first post-split episode that what had happened was nobody's business and that sometimes things do not did not work.

SNL remained a place where he had to record most weeks, never more memorable than in January when, joined by a good friend off camera John Mulaneyhe joked, missing out on the suicidal thoughts he had expressed a few weeks earlier, which at the time sparked a wave of concern and support, including Grande.

His way of defusing the situation while thanking people for their support was not within everyone's reach, with some critics thinking that he looked a little too casual. But Davidson had made a name for himself in the comedy by unequivocally dealing with tragic events, whether it was the death of his father on September 11 or his own struggle against his mental health. Most people understood that he was making fun of the pain. Is. And he always did it very effectively, but this time, for better or for worse, with countless people who could not stand it any more than he did a year ago.

Beyond his brief serious comment on the breakup, then on a one-liners on SNL and in comedy clubs, Davidson has not spoken publicly about what happened with Grande. Earlier this year, he had fun at random with Kate Beckinsaleanother unexpected coupling that had people asking for the Underground world how exactly has that happened.

"I'm surprised by the interest," Beckinsale said at Los Angeles Times in March. "I've never been in this position before – I've never attended anyone who comes with his bag of mischief – it's pretty shocking and you have to go there." I think if you like the person less, you'll be fine, and if this were the main focus of the relationship, there would be a problem, but that's not the case. "

When asked if her review bothered her a lot, the British actress replied, "I would prefer no one to hide in front of my house." It's a bit dated to have a personal life as a woman [looked at like that]. It's a little tired. "

Last month, they began to fizzle amicably before everything became too complicated. Overall, we have heard that he never fails to make her laugh, and who does not like that?

Its most hectic season in history SNL Now finished and the show paused until September, Davidson is busy doing the usual chores, such as the stand-up, and the unusual, like debuting on the landing strip at a show of Alexander Wang last month. He also co-wrote and plays in Judd ApatowThe latest film that, just four years after playing the role of "Dr. Conner's patient" in Railway accident, is listed on IMDb as "Untitled Judd Apatow / Pete Davidson Project".

With that kind of success, his joke about having to live with his mother might start to be a little thin.

Meanwhile, in addition to winning a Grammy nomination for Sweetener (and winning the award for best popular vocal album, her first Grammy win), Grande was busy working on what has been hailed as the best album of her career to date.

The release in November of the single "Thank U, Next" in which she checked the name of several old boyfriends, including Davidson, and the video full of references that accompanied it created a true pop culture, Moment of 2018, I did not unfold in the same way without everything that had happened before.

The Meaning Track was also the title of her fifth studio album, which came out in February and already has Grammy preachers buzzing around the 2020 nominations. She is currently touring and making headlines for Coachella for the first time in April .

While many years of experience in life have inspired the album, what happened to Davidson has not prevented it from influencing what has turned out to be a finished product almost flawless – even if he was going to include it anyway.

Great said last year that Big Sean and Ricky Alvarez I heard the verses that referred to them before the release of the song, but she hesitated between checking her name, especially since her break with Davidson was still fresh, and she recorded two versions of the song.

"I was also trying to be protective," she explained to Zach Sang's show in February. "In my relationship at the time, there were ups and downs, so I did not know what was going to happen, then we ended up, so I had to make a different version of it. , and then we broke up again, so we ended up going with this verse. "

"There is a version where I was to get married, there is a version where I do not get married, there is a version without anything – we are not talking about anything, "she continued. . "

All in all, the entire album is full of clever stories that have been told of the process of falling in love, breaking your heart, doing your best to overcome the problem and falling in love with you.

Some relationships are ephemeral, but art is eternal.