ariana grande - my everything

(a song Ms. Grande says was inspired by an actual situation).

whew I was beginning to think these were all fictional scenarios.

this album kinda reminds me of 'girl gone bad' in that it has no real "sound" and is mostly about shifting the singer's image via a general sense of attitude and a bangers over everything ethos.

GGGB has a really well-defined "new sound" for rihanna ie 4x4 pop-house - not throughout the album but the first half is pretty coherent, and it's that stretch that really laid the template for her/late 00s pop in general. my everything definitely has fewer club bangers - it's so haphazard that at some points i found myself wishing for a straight-up EDM album - and definitely fewer songs anything like as immediate as GGGB's defining stretch

eh i think it's clear that they wanted to move her out of teen pop and the album definitely succeeds at that.

i feel like if they wanted to do this, what needed to change wasn't her sound so much as her enunciation - that giddy word-slurring fits a lot of this material pretty badly

Have folks heard the "Target exclusive" tracks?

http://rnbxclusive.se/2014/08/ariana-grande-cadillac-song/
http://rnbxclusive.se/2014/08/ariana-grande-close/

The various bonus tracks might be the best on the album.

yeah, i like "too close" a lot. bonus tracks are so often a pleasant surprise after slogging through a disappointing album

Another totally misleading Rolling Stone review: listening to deluxe edition right now---"my baby loves fleas?"---and no way is she a "hyperactive hummingbird" whose Mariah Carey viruosity kicks the ass of every other diva on the charts---she's not even whiny! Not quite: too nerf-monotonous for that. Kind of auto-earnest at most. ASAP Ferg, please call in ASAP Rocky, Rick Perry, grab guests off the street, at gunpoint if necessary. Canned dynamics, but not the good ones.

Okay, "Just A Little Bit of Your Heart" is not bad.

" I heard/A little bit of love is better than none." True, and one good song (so far) is better than none too, thanks A.

Yes yes remixes more A$AP thank you

Close enough to whiny and always earnest enough that sappy ballads should be her go-to, not changes of pace, seriously. She's actually kinda good at 'em.

(A$AP shot the original that sounds like a remix, good) Second good sap is "My Everything," now "Bang Bang" the first up-tempo actually sufficiently bangin', "Only I"--oh I see: yet another deluxe album wrapped around a good EP.

So far, 5 1/2 ("You Think You Know" gave out of gas and kept going a while) possible keepers out of 15. A familiar ratio, but I'll keep listening after belated, by then totally unexpected goodies (the better by contrast, of course).

this is fun: http://conradtao.tumblr.com/post/98033264137/this-time-im-telling-you

i quite like this album. there's been a lot of press in mainstream media here lately about her "diva" behaviour. not sure how much of it is truth and how much is tmz-style spin

ew i clicked on a mashup what year is this

http://www.crushable.com/2014/09/19/entertainment/ariana-grande-denies-telling-fans-to-fucking-die-twitter/

She needs the rumours to be semi interesting lbr.

Album remains impressively consistent at being a workmanlike box-ticking exercise. tries out all tthose different directions and gets 6/10 at all of them. So few genuinely exciting pop-thrill moments...only Problem, really, and the first half of Love Me Harder.

latter is the new single btw

man, I just discovered "love me harder," and just shed a tear around the second gottagottagotta chorus…shit done hit me hard…

great track

Yeah I fucking love "Love Me Harder." Like I have been known to play it repeatedly.

so Max martin wrote it with a cardigans guy and the weeknd…just learned that he's a few months younger than me, 43…I dunno, I tend to think of Lex Luthor/dr doom style masterminds of music as much much older than me…I wonder how a guy like that can truly inhabit a young woman's mindset the way he has repeatedly, like it would fascinating to hear demos of his britney shit…

gottagottagotta chorus

that's a great hook.

very cool

https://instagram.com/p/3ollg0yWZi/?taken-by=arianagrande

*applause*

this popped up on my Facebook:

TRENDING: Ariana Grande: Singer Apologizes After Video Shows Her Licking Doughnut and Saying 'I Hate America'

i love how much of a weirdo she is

I don't care at all about most of her music but Ariana Grande the personality is welcome in my pop culture life 24/7

someone wants her very own "earned it"

Nothing about ILM really surprises me in the grand scheme of things, but I can't find any mention of "Dangerous Woman" which surprises me (it's just great). I've been a fan of her since noticing that she was a comic genius on "Sam and Cat." I might actually watch SNL in real-time for the first time in years tonight.

i didn't really care for this song at all

and i'm really looking forward to enjoying another ariana grande single someday

I'm kind of fascinated by the fact that I like her a lot, and she's simultaneously pretty popular. Very unusual situation. Like I'm probably the only person in the world who hears the new single and thinks about Spectrum during the chorus. Likewise Problem/V-Effect. It's all coincidence, but her stuff crosses some weird lines in a subtle way.

i heard it on the radio and went "who's this? this is really good!" without knowing who it was. glad she's got something different up her sleeve after "Focus" seemed like everything bad about her second album turned all the way up.

the second song she did on SNL tonight sounded great. seems like something that could have been on album 1 but w/ a bit of piano house feel (my guess would be they're trying to nod to tropical house but i guess we'll see what the recorded version sounds like) http://www.gossipcop.com/ariana-grande-snl-be-alright-video-saturday-night-live-watch-performance/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBAHqRnSgRw

This is really great, on a 'Yours Truly' vibe for sure.

Just saw the SNL episode earlier today. Outside of her songs (which were great), super impressed by her just natural ease and charisma in all the sketch work. Rare to see someone killing it like that on all fronts. Crazy talent.

xp yeah "be alright" is a bop but i'm also kind of excited to hear some remixes as i feel like it recycles the same idea 4 times over and doesn't quite become as stratospheric as it could be

i think this is the best of the 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOydselfXHA

it sounds like jeremih

it sure does!

lol

Holy crap, "Into You" is a bop.

Yeah somehow I missed this because of everything else that came out the last day or so but uh, woowwwwww

Adore this

the way the synths go off like laser beams in the middle eight is definitely a ~moment~

it sounds like it was produced by michael mayer

ha it really does! and yeah whoa i was not expecting anything this good from this campaign. i was actually intending to avoid this (i have grown to really hate "dangerous woman", what a clunky song)

FLAMES

that denouement deliquescing into dumblonde delirium damn

So the new album is pretty great, better than My Everything, has more of an influence from the first album

I'm listening to the Japanese version of the album and "Focus" is tacked onto the end and it's sounding a lot better than I remembered to the point that I'm wondering if they changed it for this but I'm not about to watch the video or anything to find out

it's really really good isn't it! i'm kinda shocked, none of the singles grabbed me until "into you" but the album even makes them sound better. feels like the songs are actually tailored for her (surprisingly unversatile) voice this time - unlike the awkward last album this one does a great job of taking the stuff she did so well on the debut and putting it into more varied contexts.

"greedy" really leapt out at first listen, the bonus tracks are all great too.