The video makes some fine jabs at Trump and the standards expected of
Women – but the song itself is rather more low-key
Given the timing of its release – it’s 11 days, in case you need reminding, until America goes to the polls – and the accompanying video, you would be forgiven for thinking Ariana Grande’s Positions is a direct statement about the upcoming
elections, in the vein of Demi Lovato’s coruscating Commander in Chief.
After all, the video features the 27-year-old
Singer as US president, chairing cabinet meetings, holding press conferences and walking dogs on the
White House lawn – and she makes some fine political jabs. The meeting she chairs features a distinctly more diverse cabinet than has ever existed in the White House; from the imagery, you could derive a general message that a woman could do a better
Job than the current incumbent; she hands out medals to postal workers, whose service Trump has been hampering.