Ariana Grande's new video just smashed YouTube's record for single-day views
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Capitalizing on our shared loves of dreamy pop ballads, 2000s-era female-led comedies, and being pretty much completely over Pete Davidson, Ariana Grande has just shattered YouTube’s record for most views in a single day with her new music video, “Thank U, Next”. The video—directed by Hannah Lux Davis—is a loving homage to a whole bunch of classic comedies of the 2000s era, including Legally Blonde, Mean Girls, Bring It On, and 13 Going On 30, and apparently that, combined with Grande’s self-empowering singing and lyrics, was catnip for internet audiences, who watched the video more than 50 million times in its first 24 hours on the web.