Ariana Grande tweeted a lyric from her new collaboration with Lizzo and inadvertently set in motion a chain of events that ended with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) putting a progressive policy twist on the pop star’s biggest songs.
It all began Friday afternoon with this post from Grande:
It was a reference to the Lizzo track “Good As Hell,” a remix of which features Grande:
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — or whoever was operating his Twitter account at the time — replied:
Grande responded:
Ocasio-Cortez, who last week endorsed Sanders in his run for president, then reimagined progressive policies “as an Ariana dance party”:
After which Grande upped her “screaming” level:
Inevitably, other Twitter users caught wind of the lighthearted exchange:
Check out the songs Ocasio-Cortez mentioned here: