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May 11, 2022 · The 50 Best Ariana Grande Songs. Here are the greatest highlights from the pop superstar's incredible career — from showstopping power ballads to memeable anthems, from "Break Up With Your ...
- Ilana Kaplan
Mar 15, 2024 · The 15-year-old Ariana Grande made her professional debut in 13, written by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown.It was billed as the first Broadway musical with a cast entirely made up ...
- Just Like Magic
- Adore
- Rain on Me
- The Way
- Break Free
- Safety Net
- In My Head
- Be Alright
- Problem
- Positions
After the double whammy of Sweetener and Thank U, Next – albums that dealt with life-changing shocks – there’s something deservedly braggadocio about this Positions album track. After a brief rundown of her daily routine – meeting, meditation, studio to listen “to some shit I wrote” – it expands to pontificate on the benefits of a positive mental a...
Relegated to a bonus track on Norwegian producer Cashmere Cat’s debut album, 9, the offbeat R&B of Adore pits Grande’s grandstanding vocals against a wall of sound that utilises backwards gurgles, metallic twangs and rib-rattling beats. By the song’s end the two are locked together, tumbling down as the song falls off a cliff edge.
Post-lockdown 2020’s summer banger, the stoic Rain on Me is chiefly Gaga’s show. She faces the rain/pain head on and relishes showing it who’s boss with a snarl, while Grande seems to accept its appearance but doesn’t let it stop her. As the song drifts into its third act, it’s Grande who takes the line “I hear the thunder coming down won’t you rai...
The lead single from Grande’s debut album, Yours Truly, the 00s R&B of The Way bounds around like an excitable puppy. Melodies tumbles, Mariah Carey-esque vocal runs rise and fall, while Grande sounds genuinely ecstatic as she and future boyfriend Miller exchange ad-libs. The sound of a star arriving fully formed.
Co-produced by Max Martinalongside German EDM practitioner Zedd, Break Free finds Grande loosening that famed high ponytail and charging towards the party. A synthetic blur of jackhammer beats and vertigo-inducing drops, it comes with an inbuilt drunk-at-3am holler via the nonsensical “Now that I’ve become who I really are”.
Over a heartbeat pulse and a luxuriant melody, Grande muses on that feeling of fully giving yourself to someone else, and the fear that it brings. Pleading with her to let it all go is Ty Dolla $ign, whose raspy vocals ground Grande’s airy flutter. The best moment happens in the final third when Grande, finally happy to hand her heart over, pleads ...
Rather than lay the blame at anyone else’s feet, Grande spends the majority of this plain-speaking breakup song admonishing herself for missing the signs. “My imagination’s too creative / they see demon, I see angel,” she sings, as subterranean beats clank like alarm bells in the background. “Thought you were somebody else, you …” she sighs at the ...
By her third album, Dangerous Woman, Grande was starting to expand her sonic palette, with this fan favourite elegantly dipping its toe in 90s deep house and vogue culture. Proof that uplifting self-empowerment anthems don’t have to be delivered at a snail’s pace, the sashaying Be Alright all but struts away from its problems.
Opening Wannabe-style with the sound of laughter, Problem is a similarly decisive superstar moment. Built around a delirious horn riff, it switches the pop playbook by cramming all the hooks into the verses and the gloriously ascending pre-chorus, before an uncredited Big Sean whispers “I got one less problem without you” in the empty space where t...
While it was her fifth single to enter at the US No 1 spot, Positions eschews the bold pop punch of some of Grande’s other lead singles. This is laid-back, string-drenched R&B with a spring in its step. Reflecting on a new relationship, Positions opens with plucked strings, the sound of crickets and Grande’s giddy “Heaven sent you to me”. The layer...
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- Michael Cragg
The Best is the first greatest hits album by American singer Ariana Grande, released exclusively in Japan.It features songs from her first three studio albums: Yours Truly (2013), My Everything (2014) and Dangerous Woman (2016), as well as her duet with John Legend, "Beauty and the Beast" for the Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2017) and "Faith" with Stevie Wonder for ...
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- Universal Music Japan
- September 27, 2017
Mar 6, 2024 · Ariana Grande is at her best when she’s at her most sonically adventurous. Sweetener — a Billboard 200-topping amalgamation of zany Pharrell Williams productions and sleek Max Martin-crafted ...
- Kyle Denis
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Jun 26, 2023 · Listen to the best Ariana Grande songs on Apple Music and Spotify. 20: bad idea Written in the wake of her break-up with fiancé Pete Davidson, thank u, next , is the antithesis of the dreamy ...
Mar 8, 2024 · Ariana Grande has released seven studio albums since 2013. Business Insider's senior music reporter ranked them from worst to best, using a unique scoring method. "Thank U, Next" took the top spot ...
