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Ariana Grande Reveals Why the Original ‘Santa Tell Me’ Music Video Was Scrapped

Ariana Grande brought the cozy holiday energy in her 2014 "Santa Tell Me" music video, but the clip was supposed to go in a very different direction.

Ariana Grande brought the cozy holiday energy in her 2014 “Santa Tell Me” music video, but turns out, the clip was originally supposed to go in a very different direction. We did that last minute with, like, no budget just to have something to put out,” she said of the final result, which features Grande and her dancers grooving around a mansion in their pajamas. During the holiday season in 2023, Grande unveiled the previously leaked “naughty” version of the hit, which featured a change in the bridge to: “Oh, I wanna let him unwrap me like oh-oh-oh/ Get on top of him by that fireplace, oh-oh-oh.”

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