Earlier this month, Our Lady Of Strictly Pop Bangers, Ariana Grande, released her latest single and music video for "God Is a Woman," and the internet quivered.
View this video on YouTube
It's a music video heavy with visual references, especially to the female body and ancient art — in one of the first scenes, for example, we see Ariana in a bath shaped like a vagina.
After that, we see Ariana striking a pose that's very reminiscent of the famous sculpture "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin.
Here, Ariana is wearing the iconic cone bra that Madonna made famous in the '90s. Behind her is a three-headed dog — i.e. Cerberus, the mythical dog who guarded the hates of hell according to Greek mythology.
We see plenty of other symbols of fertility and female power throughout the video — at one point, she appears to become pregnant while being surrounded by flowering plants.
Plus, the scene where all those tiny men are nursing at Ariana's torso calls to mind the Capitoline Wolf, a sculpture of the mythical she-wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.
There's more Roman references, too: At one point, Ariana is on a set that looks a lot like the Pantheon, which is a temple in Rome. In the music video version, the light is coming between two legs spread wide.
And of course, in the most overt display of feminine power, Ariana then swings a sledgehammer labeled "power," and breaks a literal glass ceiling overhead.
That's when we hear the voice of Madonna as God, reciting the Bible verse Ezekiel 25:17, which was famously popularized in Pulp Fiction. The music video changed the line about "brothers" to "sisters."
One Twitter user pointed out that the gospel choir that surrounds Ariana later could be a reference to The Handmaid's Tale, especially since all of the women are wearing hoods.
Towards the end, we see Ariana making the shape of a vagina with her hands and sitting in a very Illuminati-esque triangle:
And finally, in one of the video's most memorable visuals, we see Ariana recreating Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" fresco painting, except of course, she has replaced Adam with a woman and swapped herself in for God.
Oh and BTW: That bizarre scene with the screaming beavers? It's probably a reference to the screaming beaver/marmot YouTube video. Since "beaver" can be a nickname for vagina, it still kind of makes sense...we think.
For more translated content and BuzzFeed International goodness, subscribe to Inter Webz: our new bi-weekly newsletter bringing you the best of the 'net from around the world.
Note: if you can’t see the signup box above, just go here to sign up.
This post was translated from Portuguese.