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Grande also gives a deliberate nod to the USPS in her music video, placing a medal around a mail carrier's neck as their colleagues watch proudly.

The actual song, however, is about the many faces Grande wears to impress her lover, as she sings \"Switchin' my positions for you/ Cookin' in the kitchen and I'm in your bedroom/ I'm in the Olympics way, I'm jumping through hoops/ Know my love infinite, nothin' I wouldn't do/ That I wouldn't do, switchin' for you.\"

\"Positions\" -- Grande's upcoming sixth studio album -- is the follow-up to 2019’s \"thank u, next.\"

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