# @popbase on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdahwlpB_-6
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70638340-popbase-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-18T04:00:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pop Base (@PopBase) — https://gondola.cc/PopBase

## Caption

8 years ago today, Ariana Grande released “breathin.”

Max Martin, Ilya Salmanzadeh, and Ariana Grande worked together on 'breathin,' one of the standout deep cuts from her fourth studio album, 'Sweetener,' which Republic Records eventually pushed out as the record's third and final single. The song had actually built a devoted following well before its official single release, already climbing to number one on the US iTunes chart and cracking the Billboard Hot 100 at number 22 purely off album streams and downloads.

Grande has spoken openly about how the track reflects her own experience processing anxiety and panic, channeling breathing exercises as a grounding tool during overwhelming moments, giving the song's steady, meditative chorus a genuinely personal weight beneath its glossy pop-R&B production. Directed by Hannah Lux Davis, the accompanying video leaned into a surreal, time-bending visual concept, showing Grande manipulating clocks and drifting through a smoky room and a flashing bar as the lyrics describe her mind racing out of control.

The single reinforced 'Sweetener's' broader themes of resilience and healing, arriving alongside fellow singles 'No Tears Left to Cry' and 'God Is a Woman' as one of the album's three defining tracks. A live rendition later appeared on her 2019 concert album, 'K Bye for Now (SWT Live),' further extending the song's presence well past its original rollout and cementing it as one of the most quietly beloved cuts from that era of Grande's catalog.

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