Pop star Ariana Grande made a serious mistake when she got what she thought was "7 Rings,"
the title of a recent single, tattooed on her hand.
She showed off her new ink in a post on her Instagram page.
But while she may have been expecting fans to compliment her latest tattoo, many instead
pointed out a big error.
In the since-deleted Instagram post, Grande showed off her new ink, a tattoo in Japanese
Kanji characters on the palm of her left hand.
She wrote in the caption, quote, "This felt super good jk," poking fun at how painful
the tattoo was to get, not that pain has stopped her from racking up dozens of tattoos anyway.
She also added a peculiar observation, writing
So, that's cleared up.
But, while Grande may have been expecting her fans to compliment her new tattoo, many
instead pointed out that the ink doesn't actually mean "7 Rings," as the singer reportedly intended
it to.
An accurate tattoo would have read "nanatsu no yubiwa", a spelling which is actually correct
in Grande's "7 Rings" video.
As people fluent in reading Japanese have pointed out, Grande's tattoo actually reads
"shichirin," a term which would refer in English to a small charcoal barbecue grill.
Not the same thing.
"Thank you. I can't read Kanji yet, but I love it."
While the post was still up, Grande replied to one fan who wrote to explain the tattoo's
real meaning.
In the comment, she admitted that she did indeed seem to have left a few crucial characters
out of the tattoo.
Even though she owned up to the mistake, she didn't seem too bothered by having such an
unfortunate spelling error etched onto her body.
As she put it,
Grande also joked that she was a quote, "huge fan of tiny barbecue grills."
But like the rest of the original post, her response has since been deleted, making it
hard to tell just how funny she really finds this embarrassing mixup.
"7 Rings" is a track off Grande's upcoming album, Thank U, Next, which shares a title
with her hit breakup anthem from the end of 2018.
The song, which follows the tune of classic The Sound of Music number "My Favorite Things,"
was reportedly inspired by a moment in Grande's real life when she went on what she called,
quote, "a champagne-fueled Tiffany's shopping spree."
According to Rolling Stone, she hit the high-end jewelry store with six of her friends, buying
herself and each of them matching rings.
The moment notably came after Grande split from her one-time fiancé Pete Davidson.
Grande recounted the story to Billboard, recalling the day she splurged on the rings with a little
help from alcohol.
The singer said,
Since its release on January 18th, "7 Rings" has broken several records, including Spotify's
24-hour streaming record.
The song's music video broke ground as 2019's biggest debut, snagging 23.6 million views
in the first day of its release.
The song also helped the 25-year-old Grande become the youngest female artist to ever
have two Number 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
So, it's pretty clear why Grande would want to commemorate her success with some permanent
ink.
The singer's many tattoos include the Pokémon Eevee on her upper arm, a large crescent moon
on her hand, and the Japanese characters for "Let's Sing" on her arm, and that one seems
to be spelled correctly.
Fortunately for Grande, she's far from the first person to get the wrong words tattooed
on her when dabbling with other languages.
Singer Ed Sheeran memorably managed to get a misspelled tattoo in English, when he tried
to have the title of his song "Galway Girl" inked on him, ending up instead with "Galway
Grill."
Of course, the story later emerged that that misspelling had been on purpose, with actress
Saoirse Ronan, who starred in the song's music video, coming up with the typo for Sheeran
as a joke.
So maybe Grande can take that same route and claim the barbecue grill ink was done that
way on purpose.
If she doesn't want to wait for it to rub away over time, she can just pay to have it
laser-removed.
As she brags in "7 Rings," if she wants something, she'll get it.
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