Back in 2018, you may recall Ariana Grande paying homage to Mean Girls in her “Thank U, Next” music video. Well, now the singer has recreated another one of the movie’s iconic scenes.
Grande’s makeup bran, r.e.m. beauty, posted a TikTok video in which the singer was shown makeup-free and wrapped up in a coat. She then mouths the line, “I can’t go out, I’m sick,” while faking a cough. In the film, Amanda Seyfried, who played Karen Smith, said the line as she talked to Rachel McAdams’ character Regina George on the phone.
Ariana Grande transitions into her full glam after she lip-syncs the phrase. The star flips her hair and throws a kiss to the camera as Missy Elliott’s “Pass That Dutch” begins to play. Fans of the film will recognize that this was the song that the Plastics walk down their school’s highway in slow motion to.
Movie references continue as the r.e.m. beauty account captioned the TikTok clip, “get in loser, we’re going to @Ulta Beauty #shopnow #ultahaul,” as a way to promote the line’s new collab with Ulta Beauty. On April 17, the beauty line arrived at Ulta, as well as in select stores in person. The news came five months after the brand launched in November 2021.
“Today’s the day !!!!! @r.e.m.beauty is now available in select @ultabeauty stores nationwide and one ulta.com,” Grande wrote in an Instagram post on April 17. “I can’t even begin to tell you how excited and thankful I am. I so hope you enjoy ! thank you endlessly @ultabeauty.”
