We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)

"We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)"
Single by Ariana Grande
from the album Eternal Sunshine
Released	March 8, 2024 (2024-03-08)
Recorded	September 2023
Studio	Jungle City (New York City)
Genre	Synth-pop EDM[1][2]
Length	3:48
Label	Republic
Songwriter(s)	Ariana Grande Max Martin Ilya Salmanzadeh
Producer(s)	Ariana Grande Max Martin Ilya
Ariana Grande singles chronology
"Yes, And?" (remix) (2024) "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)" (2024) "The Boy Is Mine" (2024)
Music video
"We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)" on YouTube

"We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)" is a song by American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande. It was released through Republic Records on March 8, 2024, as the second single from her seventh studio album Eternal Sunshine (2024). It is written and produced by Grande, Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh. A synth-pop song with EDM influences, its lyrics dually refer to the demise of a romantic relationship as well as Grande's relationship with the press.

The song was met positively by music critics and debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100, marking Grande's ninth number-one single and her second from Eternal Sunshine after "Yes, And?". The song marked her seventh number-one debut, making her the female artist with the most number-one debuts in history, as well as her 22nd top-ten on the chart. It earned Grande her fourth number-one single on the Billboard Global 200 chart and reached number one in 12 countries in places like Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates. Elsewhere, the song peaked within the top ten in 22 other countries, including Australia, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It ranked as the ninth most-streamed song of the year as of July with 826 million streams worldwide according to Luminate.

An accompanying music video for "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)", directed by Christian Breslauer, was released simultaneously with the single. The concept for the video was inspired by the plot of the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and features Grande undergoing a memory erasure procedure to forget her ex-boyfriend, who is portrayed by American actor Evan Peters. The song garnered five nominations at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year; it won Best Cinematography. To promote the single, Grande performed it on Saturday Night Live and at the 2024 Met Gala.