On the collaborative track “Almost Is Never Enough,” Ariana Grande & Nathan Sykes play a couple who had a relationship that hadn’t gone right. Ariana would like to say things were going well but she knows that’s a lie and like the title states, almost is never enough to make the relationship work; you need to put full effort in. Both of them state that they didn’t feel the relationship while in it, but the mood of the song and lyrics suggest that they both want to either reconnect or they simply just miss better times.

At the time of the song’s release, Nathan and Ariana were dating. Unfortunately, their relationship ended a few months later.

The song was first shown in a snippet shared via Twitter by Ariana on August 4, 2013, which would be removed later, but can still be found on YouTube: