Ariana Grande has fans clinging to their papers and pens to decode her latest lyrics. 

After the Wicked actress released her new eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead track, “Hampstead,” March 28, fans quickly began to dissect its lines, finding it to not only be a nod to the end of her marriage with ex-husband Dalton Gomez, but also to the earliest days of her romance with Ethan Slater. 

In the first lines, Ariana sings, “I left my heart at a pub in Hampstead / And I misplaced my mind in a good way / Threw away my reputation but saved us more heartache / Yes I know it seems f–ked up and you’re right.”

When Ariana first released the track list for her new deluxe album March 17, the title “Hampstead” immediately stuck out to fans, as it was the last place she was spotted publicly with her ex-husband. 

Indeed, in January 2023, just one month before the couple’s date of separation, February 20, 2023, cited on their divorce documents, Ariana and Dalton stepped out in the Hampstead neighborhood of London while Ariana was filming for Wicked.