Ariana Grande’s New Song “The Boy Is Mine” Is Being Seriously Side-Eyed By Listeners Amid Her Controversial Ethan Slater Romance. Here’s Everything There Is To Know.

You see, both Ariana and Ethan were married when filming for the upcoming movie began, and reports that they were dating first surfaced just three days after Ariana’s separation from her husband, Dalton Gomez, was announced.

Meanwhile, Ethan didn’t file for divorce from his high school sweetheart, Lilly Jay, until six days after he was publicly linked to Ariana — he and Lilly had welcomed their first baby together just months earlier.

Then Lilly spoke out against Ariana in a scathing interview, where she told the Daily Mail that the pop star is “not a girl’s girl,” and her family had been treated like “collateral damage.”

Sources close to Ariana and Ethan have always maintained that they didn’t cheat on their respective spouses when the relationship began, but Ariana struggled to avoid “home-wrecker” claims as people pointed out her decadelong history of being involved in other people’s breakups. 

The two met in 2012, and at the time it was widely reported that Mac cheated on his long-term girlfriend Nomi Leasure with Ariana after they’d collaborated on a song together. 

Mac and Nomi briefly split but ended up remaining together until 2016. Soon after the final breakup, Mac and Ariana started dating.

Then, in 2018, Nomi confirmed in a Tumblr post that Mac had cheated on her during their relationship, but she did not name Ariana specifically. 

“Once, we’d been fighting for five days straight while he was traveling, and then on the one day that he was back in LA, he said he didn’t want to see me. I was like, ‘Well, asshole, I’ve got a key to your house, so I’m just going to come see you,’” she wrote.

“I walk in, go downstairs, and guess what little girl is sitting cross-legged on the couch listening to music?” Naya continued. “C’mon, people, I’m not going to tell you, but you can guess because it’s not that hard! (It rhymes with ‘Smariana Schmande,’ if you’re really have a hard time.)

"I learned that I was no longer getting married from the internet and at the same time as the rest of the world," Naya added. "Not only were we no longer getting married, but apparently we weren’t even together anymore.”

Cazzie later revealed that just days after they’d made that decision, she phoned Pete to tell him that she didn't want the break after all — but was blindsided when he told her that he was the “happiest he had ever been.”

Two days after that conversation, Pete officially ended his and Cazzie’s relationship over text, and Cazzie saw on Instagram that he was dating Ariana.

In her song “7 Rings,” Ariana boasts, “I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it,” and in “One Last Time” she sings, “I know she gives you everything I couldn't give it to you,” before adding in the chorus, “I don't care if you got her in your heart / All I really care is you wake up in my arms.”

In “The Boy Is Mine” — which raised eyebrows before it was even released because of its provocative title — Ariana sings, “I don't wanna cause no scene / I’m usually so unproblematic,” which left listeners scratching their heads.

“ariana calling herself unproblematic and being dead serious like whatever you say sister let's smile and nod," one person wrote on X, racking up tens of thousands of likes and retweets.

“Ariana’s album is cute and it’s a vibe but calling herself unproblematic is fucking hilarious,” another wrote. 

Somebody else added, “ariana….calling herself unproblematic…..ok sister….right.”

The time in 2015 when she was caught licking donuts that were for sale in a bakery while an employee’s back was turned was also brought up. 

Admitting that she very nearly didn’t include the song on Eternal Sunshine, Ariana said, “I think I kind of was like, 'This is a very bad idea, I think.' But there is a large group of my fans that do love a bad-girl anthem, and this is, I think, an elevated version of that."

And this isn’t the only song on Ariana’s album to spark backlash, with lead single “Yes, And?” also being heavily criticized when it was released earlier this year. 

The song is about unapologetically living your life without caring what others think, but a misguided reference to Ariana's love life in the lyrics was deemed to be in bad taste. 

Seemingly hitting back at the media interest in her and Ethan’s romance, Ariana sings, “Your business is yours and mine is mine / Why do you care so much whose dick I ride?” Shocked fans accused Ariana of glorifying being a “home-wrecker.”

In fact, people claimed that Ariana was trying to “gaslight” fans when she suggested in an interview last month on The Zach Sang Show that she had been unfairly targeted by the media.