Touch It

Touch ItSong by Ariana Grande
General information
Artist	Ariana Grande
Release date	May 20, 2016
Recorded	January 21, 2016
Studio	MXM Studios & Wolf Cousins Studios (Stockholm, Sweden)
Genre	EDM, synth-pop
Length	4:20
Album	Dangerous Woman (Deluxe)
Label	Republic Records
Songwriter(s)	Ali Payami, Max Martin, Peter Svensson, Savan Kotecha
Producer(s)	Ali Payami, Max Martin
Credits	Touch It credits
Dangerous Woman track list
"Bad Decisions"
"Touch It"
"Knew Better / Forever Boy"
Music video

"Touch It" is the thirteenth track from Ariana Grande's third studio album, Dangerous Woman. It was released through Republic Records on May 20, 2016.

The song was featured as a remix in the new Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius mobile game in which Grande had a character as Dangerous Ariana.

This song is about a relationship. The guy in the relationship is distrusting or cautious of his new partner. Ariana is enjoying the relationship so much and is reassuring the guy that no one is going to mess it up - no one is going to 'touch it'. She wants to get to the part in the relationship where they can trust each other - she wants to fall in love.

Trivia

• At a Q&A of her Sweetener World Tour, Grande said that "Touch It" is a boring song and she doesn't like it.
  • After Grande said that, the song started to trend on Twitter.
  • Grande prefers "Borderline" over this song, as stated as a reply on Twitter.
• On September 28, 2019, Ariana posted a snippet from the recording of "Touch It" titled "opera-ish shit on a pop shit", referring to the high pitched vocals in the bridge, revealing that the vocal was recorded on January 21, 2016. It is a part of her #voicenotesseries.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
How do I make the phone ring?
Why do I even care?
How're you all around me when you're not really there?
Mmm, when you're not really there?
Oh, yeah, mmm
How do I feel you on me when you're not on my skin?
Why do you say you want me, then tell me "I'm not coming in"?
Oh, yeah
Baby, just come on in
Ooh, yeah

[Chorus]
'Cause every time I'm with you, I go into a zone
And I remember all the places you wanna go
Take me all the way
Ain't nobody gonna touch it, touch it, touch it
'Cause every time I see you, I don't wanna behave
I'm tired of being patient, so let's pick up the pace
Take me all the way
Ain't nobody gonna touch it, touch it, touch it

[Verse 2]
How do you know I'm breathing, when I'm holding my breath?
Why don't we face the danger just for the night and forget?
Baby, let's just forget

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Now remind me why we're taking a break
It's obviously insane
'Cause we both know what we want
So why don't we fall in love?
Baby, let's fall in love, oh

[Chorus]
'Cause every time I'm with you, I go into a zone
And I remember all the places you wanna go
Take me all the way
Ain't nobody gonna touch it, touch it, touch it
'Cause every time I see you, I don't wanna behave
I'm tired of being patient, so let's pick up the pace
Take me all the way (Take me all the way)
Ain't nobody gonna touch it, touch it, touch it

[Bridge]
Oh, ain't nobody gonna (Oh, ain't nobody gonna) touch it, touch it, touch it
Baby, ain't nobody gonna touch it, touch it, touch it (Aa-na-ba-dee-bae)
Baby, ain't nobody gonna touch it, touch it, touch it (Ooh, ain't nobody gonna)
Ain't nobody gonna touch it (Oh, no, yeah)

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Remind me why we're taking a break
It's obviously insane
'Cause we both know what we want
So why don't we fall in love?
Baby, let's be in love

[Chorus]
'Cause every time I'm with you (Every time I'm with you), I go into a zone
And I remember all the places you wanna go (All the places you wanna go)
Take me all the way (The way)
Ain't nobody gonna (No, ain't nobody gonna) touch it, touch it, touch it (Ain't nobody gonna)
'Cause every time I see you, I don't wanna (See you, I don't wanna) behave (Behave)
I'm tired of being patient, so let's pick up the pace (Patient, so let's pick up the pace)
Take me all the way (The way)
Ain't nobody gonna touch it, touch it, touch it (Ooh, ain't nobody gonna)

[Outro]
Baby, ain't nobody gonna touch it, touch it, touch it, touch, touch (Baby)
Baby, ain't nobody gonna touch it, touch it, touch it, touch, touch (Woah, oh, yeah)
Baby, ain't nobody gonna touch it, touch it, touch it, touch, touch