Overview
- Grande changed the Ricky Alvarez line during her Barclays Center show on Monday night, singing “Wrote some songs about Ricky, we always find our way back,” a shift captured in viral videos and reported across outlets.
- This Brooklyn change follows earlier tweaks on the Eternal Sunshine tour, including a June 26 Austin performance where she sang “I know he still got my back,” which Alvarez reportedly attended.
- Photographs and paparazzi footage place the pair together in recent weeks, including a July Fourth grocery run in Boca Raton and a post-concert meal in Austin, which outlets say has driven renewed reunion speculation.
- Neither Grande nor Alvarez has publicly confirmed a romantic reunion and Grande’s representatives have not responded to requests for comment, while unnamed sources tell some outlets the two are reconnecting slowly and keeping things casual.
- The lyric matters because the original 2018 line is a well-known cultural touchpoint from “thank u, next,” so live edits are read by fans as personal signals and are now being viewed in the context of Grande’s recent split from Ethan Slater and her 2015–2016 relationship with Alvarez.