In attempting to fix this tattoo to accurately translate to “7 rings,” Grande inked yet another incorrect translation into her skin, this time “ Japanese barbecue finger. Fans were quick to point out that the Japanese phrase permanently inked into her body actually translates to “shichirin,” which doesn’t mean “7 rings” - it means a Japanese-style barbecue grill. Not long after she issued this apology, she got the phrase “7 rings” tattooed on her palm in Japanese.
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“With ‘7 Rings,’” wrote prominent The Atlantic pop culture commentator Spencer Kornhaber, “the singer wears culture as a costume.” HelloGiggles was even blunter in its accusations : it ran a story titled “Ariana Grande’s ‘7 Rings’ video appropriates Black culture, and we have to talk about it.”Īmong the ways in which Grande has been accused of appropriating black culture include copying: the rapper Soulja Boy’s flow from his game-changing hit “Pretty Boy Swag ” the Pink Trap House that rapper 2 Chainz set up in Atlanta to serve as a family-friendly haunted house and free HIV screening center and the melody and production of rapper Princess Nokia’s “Mine,” which Nokia describes as “about brown women and their hair.” Grande eventually apologized on Instagram, ending her statement with, “It’s never my intention to offend anybody.”īut the cultural appropriation conversation around Grande didn’t end there. Starting with the release of her January single “7 Rings” and its music video, Grande has faced seemingly endless allegations of cultural appropriation. The same headline could apply to Grande (now broken up with Davidson) in 2019, but for entirely different reasons. “To understand culture in 2018,” read one Washington Post headline, “you must understand Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson.”
In November, she released the single “thank u, next,” which was her first number-one song its subsequent music video broke YouTube viewing records. She covered last August’s Elle just as her fourth album, the critically and commercially trailblazing Sweetener, dropped.
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