3:35 girl… you can feel the pain in that falsetto.

there’s something so beautiful about hearing her best friends’ vocals in this song

Ghostin has the most beautiful synth I've ever heard in my LIFE

i believe that ariana was way too depressed to sing another verse, let alone those hidden vocals so she let victoria do it

these are some time stamps mostly for me later on but have fun :) hope it helped a bit 14:19 - main synth 11:54 - strings 1 12:31- strings 1.2 (I guess?) 12:46 - strings 2 13:46 - more strings ? 14:07 - strings 4 17:41 - actual heaven (synth and strings) 18:20 - ending strings (5) 7:43 - strings 6 8:02 - strings 7 8:38 - strings 8 9:16 - idk what these hits are called 4:48 - harm vocals 3:10 - harm vocals 2 6:20 - this :( 7:00 - pretty shit

IF THIS ISNT PLAYED AT MY FUNERAL IM NOT GOING

17:40 hits different. if I’m going to heaven this better be the soundtrack

4:48 - 5:29 hit different😍😫 i felt ari's pain with her vocals mixed with victoria's vocals ughhh my ears can't take itttt !

0:00 - main vocals 3:10 - background vocals 1 (ariana grande) 3:54 - background vocals 2 (victoria monet) 4:49 - background vocals 3 (ariana grande + victoria monet?) 5:31 - background vocals 4 (ariana grande) 6:19 - synth thing? 6:31 - snare + bass drum 6:41 - synth + instruments 7:23 - bass 7:42 - bass + double bass 8:02 - cello? + double bass 8:39 - double bass 10:13 - background vocals 5 (ariana grande) 11:27 - garbled vocals 11:53 - cello 12:31 - cello + orchestra 14:08 - violins solo 14:18 - main instrumental 17:40 - instrumental + orchestra + synth

I can feel the pain in Ari’s voice :(

Victoria's backing vocalsss make me cry

10:20 she literally started whisper the song in my ear. Am I the only one who felt like she was singing to me in that moment?

i really wished people really got to know the struggles she had to go through with this song, poor baby. you can hear her struggling with some of these. ugh. around 3:30 you can hear her struggling ,,, :(((

i still don't know how she even recorded it, let alone released it. it's been over three years & i still cry LISTENING to it.

3:35 omg that note sounded like a cry..it makes sense why she’s never performed this live. it must be so hard for her

its been a month and i still relisten to it.............her best song ever. i love it sm

11:27 Mac and her's laughter I can't take this😢

I have never in my life heard such a delicate and extremely well made/produced song tbh like how tf did they do this in such a small amount of time especially since there’s soooo much detail down to the most minuscule things and then the ending is so weird and mysterious like when I hear it, it sounds like something straight out of this world it feels like a Easter egg or something I can’t explain it it’s just crazy fascinating this might be the most beautiful and most sad song ever made even if it’s a pain to listen to like even if ur life is going well just the beauty of this song will make u cry and imo this is the best song she as an artist has ever made and I feel like this song doesn’t get the recognition it deserves sadly especially since it was so personal to her :(

05:17 you can feel her pain in the harmonies, sounds beautiful

7:00 - 7:24 There’s just something about this section I can’t quite put my finger on, but it scratches my brain in all the right places.

6:20 It's like seeing someone who passed away a long time ago, only to realize that it's just your imagination...

17:41 its like a dream, a divine dream

hearing the instruments stripped down like that just added another level of pain

12:30 is literally the best instrumental I've ever listened to

3:43 didn’t even know that note was in the song!!

I think I just inhaled a tear

Only Ari and Victoria's harmonies in the last part of the song is enough to make me cry 💔

7:04 I will literally cry myself to sleep-

I literally crying. this is the most beautiful thing ive ever heard

7:00 this guitar sound is just filling my eyes with tears… even the smallest things of this song sound so emotional🥹

i have returned to this video after a while and it still hits esp those strings from 7:58 something abt those strings make me feel very very emotional as if i’ve just lost a life

every single part of this song hit me so hard that I physical hurt from the pain I feel by just HEARING the stems

5:10 is just WOW✋🏼

her voice breaks my heart. i cannot stop crying to this song.

2:11 yo is that a voice crack i love

7:03 reminds me of a movie ending when the main character dies. ghostin was deeper than i thought n my heart goes out to ari

15:53 OH MY GOD THAT THING ON THE SIDE??? IM GONNA CRY

"6:41" sounds like something out of stranger things

17:42 my heart shattered

the love i have for orchestra🥺🥺🥺

17:41 sounds from heaven

this is such a pretty song you can feel all the emotions :((

Here are some highlights of the vid :) 4:47 - the hums 17:41 - bliss 7:00 - really beautiful 11:13 - hums and ending noises 12:45 - strings 3:35 - pain in her voice 17:04 through 17:40 and beyond - opening 4:48 - 5:29 - heaven

*TIME STAMPS* [labeled for musicians] (with correct terms) *VOCALS* 0:00 Lead vocals 3:12 Choir vocals (outro adlibs) 3:54 Adlibs (Victoria) 4:49 Lead choir vocals 5:32 Adlibs (Ariana) 10:14 Adlibs (Ariana) 11:28 Distorted vocals (outro) *INSTRUMENTS* 6:32 Percussion (transition) 7:14 Distorted percussion (outro) 7:43 Double bass & cello (strings) 11:54 Cello (strings) 12:31 Cello with pizzicato (strings) 12:45 String sustain (outro build up) 13:45 Outro (strings) 14:09 Violins (strings) 6:20 Synth (intro build up) 6:41 Brass synth 14:19 Main synth 17:41 Synth (outro with bells and strings)

OH. MY. GOSH. i’ll never be the same.

I saw a few comments about the ending and probably it meaning something very very specific to her, and to me it kind of sounds like a train, as if you were at a station. like when you can hear it approaching in the distance, then as it leaves you get all that wind going past you. that strange sort of eerie twinkling sound mixed with that kind of fluttering idek is also like she feels things disappearing and floating away into the air. the adlibs also sound like this, like the voice effect or filter sounds airy and echoey. yeah I have no idea what it is but it’s so strange but so beautiful at the end, whatever it means to ariana must be special because it makes you feel something so different

I visualize cotton candy, glitches, rain, and pastel pink, lilac and gray while listening to this song.

if music isn't what has literally kept me alive so far, I don't what is/ will ever be. her harmonies don't belong to this planet. Like Woahh

I think what is so telling about this song is how restrained Ari is in her vocal here. Her phrases are relatively short, revealing its very difficult for her to sing this, as though she is about to cry. And then the falsetto closing is like a cry up into heaven. The strings coming in is just an emotional whirlwind. She absolutely gave it her all to give us this song.

Ghostin will forever have my heart🥺

Victoria!!! YES GIRL COME THROUGH!!

her best and most beautiful song

GIRL, VICTORIAAAAAAA

Please tell me I’m not the only one who hears a train track at the very end of the song 😭

14:08 - 17:40 gave me the chills. I was trying so hard not to cry

this has some of the most beautiful sounds ill ever hear in my life

this just made me fall in love with this song even more

This is so beautiful, I wish I could go back to winter of 2019 to listen to this song for the first time🥺🤍

this is one the most beautiful things i’ve ever heard

my tears are just like falls

The strings are dreams coming true just wow!

Call me sensitive, call me obsessed, call me whatever i cried while watching this😂

chills from beginning to end

since the very first time i heard this song i knew it would be my favorite one of all ari´s discography, the feelings, the emotions and the deeply/dreamy vibe this masterpiece transmits is just unique, the way its produced, the dedication they all put in, its the most perfect song to me. i respect her decision to doesn´t want to perform this, but i hope someday she will feel comfortable and enoughly encouraged, because this feels the gates to heaven and live would be the LITERAL entrance to heaven, we all love u queen, thank you so much for giving us this walk trough the stars.

if not for this video, i'd have never know that victoria's vocals are on this one ♥ thank you. the background vocals sound so heavenly

the starting of 6:45 , something i cant explain gave me so much nostalgia as if i've been swimming underwater for as long as i could and ive finally been released, by my own positive mindset and always believing i could do it like they way i want to, slowly reaching the top of the ocean i begin to see the light and how it was worth it trying and i was able.

this just blessed me. u have no idea how much i needed this. i love the person who made this. ty :))

I was crying at 12am and listening to this wonderfull sound and i'm feeling so much better now🖤

What I wouldn’t give to listen to this for the first time again.

im coming back to this to hear her ending vocals AND THOSE STRINGSSS rlly tugged MY heart strings 💔 literally tearing up as i write this gawd i can feel my heartbreaking again…

HEAVEN

since I discovered ghostin stems I can say I sleep happy thank you sm❤️

aw. victoria’s vocals being in ghostin makes it so much more emotional. i just love them and i love this song 😭

This song is the centre of all my break downs

i love this sm

11:53 - 14:07 is so pretty and so is 17:41 , so are the harmonies at 3:10 and 4:48 ☹️ this song makes me so sad but i love it so much. i have watched this video so many times it's not even funny

This is my 200th Time that im listen to this and wwwwwooooooooowwwwww. Im done with my life 😭😭😭😭i cant. All of this is sooo beautifel omg

This should be a crime that it’s not on Spotify

Every part of this song is so beautiful!!! Ari really beated herself on the quality of the songs.

oh my word i’ll cry to this every night

the strings r so incredibly beautiful

i’m obsessed with these

7:43 made my pillow soak with tears

this with headphones 😫 (currently crying)

Everytime I hear the oos in the end of the song touch my heart and make me tear up

Fake shmile thank you for Ariana Grande song Ghostin is absolutely beautiful and amazing always truly enjoy love ya

My ex boyfriend just overdosed last night. We were supposed to see eachother tomorrow...but now he's gone forever...

this is so freaking pretty

My fav timestamps (mostly to help me lol) Vocals: 3:12 (so sad you can hear her pain) 😭 4:04 (Vic has entered the chat) 💁🏽‍♀ 4:50 (lullaby) 🎵 6:06 ( just sad man)🥲 10:21 (we will) 🙃 Instruments: 6:41 (makes me think about the old days) 🥲 7:43 - 8:36 (my favorite part of the song) 🥴 12:31 - 14:06 (play this at my funeral) 🙇🏾‍♀💁🏽‍♀ 14:19 - 18:40 (i could sleep to this) 🦋 😭💗

17:41 IS HEAVENLY 😭😭😭😭😭

BESTFREN WTH- I LOVE THIS😭

god bless the strings in this song.

hello i am a person living in turkey, music is really universal. The USA and the Americans are very lucky, who brought Ariana Grande and hundreds of stars before her to the world nowadays. Whenever I'm sad and I hear this song at the same time and sometimes I don't know the exact words, it makes me sad. Great sound. a wonderful woman. Everything is so beautiful and this is the saddest song I've ever heard from Ariana. Please know your worth, the value of art and peace is paramount. The value of the artists and people we love, who beautify our days in every sense in our short lives, should be as precious as our lives.

I just wanna say that I love these videos sooooo much and I know you haven’t posted in a long time but can keep making these type of videos? I really really listening to them❤

3:29 that's just for me to come back to when i want a good cry

Since Stranger Things is ending next years 17:40 reminds me of everything in the show.

NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY 💔💔💔

Im not crying, you are 😭😭

you can hear the pain in her voice 😭

I know you hear me when I cry I try to hold it in the night While you're sleepin' next to me But it's your arms that I need this time (This time) Look at the cards that we've been dealt If you were anybody else Probably wouldn't last a day Every tear's a rain parade from hell (From hell) Baby, you do it so well You been so understanding, you been so good And I'm puttin' you through more than one ever should And I'm hating myself 'cause you don't want to Admit that it hurts you I know that it breaks your heart when I cry again Over him, mmh I know that it breaks your heart when I cry again 'Stead of ghostin' him We'll get through this, we'll get past this, I'm a girl with A whole lot of baggage But I love you, we'll get past this, I'm a girl with A whole lot of baggage, yeah Though I wish he were here instead Don't want that living in your head He just comes to visit me When I'm dreaming every now and then (And then) And after all that we been through (And after all that we been through) There's so much to look forward to What was done and what was said Leave it all here in this bed with you (With you) Baby, you do it so well You been so understanding, you been so good And I'm puttin' you through more than one ever should And I'm hating myself 'cause you don't want to Admit that it hurts you, baby I know that it breaks your heart when I cry again Over him, mmh I know that it breaks your heart when I cry again 'Stead of ghostin' him We'll get through this, we'll get past this, I'm a girl with A whole lot of baggage But I love you, we'll get past this, I'm a girl with A whole lot of baggage, yeah