Ariana Grande - AG4 (2018 album)

maybe my vernacular of bubblegum wasnt so appropriate. i just meant that its light, breezy, fun, simple and memorable in the same way songs like 'call me maybe' were - not abrasive, maximalist and full of millenial whoops.

the "My Boo" progression

The much-anticipated (and -teased) video has premiered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl1aHhXnN1k

this is very nice but unfortunately the ellen performance is still the official video

cute video!

Yeah the video is silly and cute but the Ellen performance is the shit !

just got around to the ellen performance, it is indeed very endearing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX_vx_s6Gr0

really don't like the trans gag character in the thank u next video

I was looking up Ariana Grande guitar chords (I don’t have a guitar) and discovered the chords to “Pete Davidson” are just BAE over and over and I can’t believe I just wrote the Da Vinci Code pic.twitter.com/L48k3V7o5i

— Grace Barry (@gracelbarry) December 6, 2018

haha

A new single titled "Imagine" drops tonite, fam

It’s some next-level shit, y’all !

"imagine" is pretty nice, especially the ending section - it's better than most of sweetener

guessing a christmas album release? that feels like something she'd do

as in the album gets a surprise christmas release rather than she's recording a christmas album lol

I know I’m prone to hyperbole ITT; but I feel like this year we’ve seen an already extraordinary artist just “come into her own”... she’s totally in the pocket, every release feels like a minor revelation. I can think of only a few rough analogies — witnessing an artist this perfectly in the zone — in my lifetime of music fandom. I’m so happy to be here for it.

both "imagine" and "thank u next" are better than anything on Sweetener except the lead single

"imagine" def not as effortlessly good as "thank u next" but im just rly happy to hear her over some good production that is not pharrell or max martin

I've listened to "Imagine" a couple of times.
I don't find it particularly good so far (and not better than some Sweetener tracks).
But I'll certainly give it more time. Maybe it'll grow.

"imagine" isn't a smash but kind of revelatory for me as someone who's been listening awhile to hear her release a very good song that isn't straining itself to be a smash

i would contrast with "god is a woman" which to me sounds like it's contorting itself into some truly grotesque shapes in order to go bigger and wider with each second that passes, by the end it's mike teevee at the end of charlie & the chocolate factory, towering overhead but so thin and wobbly that a slight gust of wind might knock it to the ground

"imagine" is much looser, more natural, more listenable, more recognizably human

i knew her music would get a lot better once she left max behind, i just never imagined it would happen so quickly

y’all and your backhanded compliments, lol...

I need to find or establish some kind of community of like-minded individuals... maybe I’ll hand out my card to other adult dudes when I see her perform at Staples in May.

I ordered pad thai tonite in honor of this song

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

Catch her performance on Fallon last night? It was tight

she turned down a damehood, respec!

<3

thank u, yes!

side a - thank u, next
side b - imagine
vinyl available now
🖤https://t.co/DrD7Oi96Ju pic.twitter.com/PITRnapGdb

— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) January 3, 2019

how often do major-label pop artists release singles as 45s, i wonder

**breaking** she’s headlining night 3 of Coachella (both weekends)

...now also Lollapalooza (rumored).

new single, “7 Rings,” out Friday:

indeeeed. but i guess thank u, next is more vulnerable and gentle lol. seven rings is jus like ..... a flex. friendship anthem. how the homies WANT u to feel. what the ‘thank u next’ energy evolves into while embracing a new chapter (even tho both moods /energies are v present).

— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) January 13, 2019

meanwhile, check out my sweet ebay score that arrived today (direct from overseez):

https://i.imgur.com/XL5iFUy.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/2bb0Z7D.jpg

POPS BEST 1000, y’all #reeemixxxx

New song is “My Favorite Things” with some squeaky rapping 😂

yeah, it seems bad after a pair of listens.

It’s def. a cute “flex,” don’t really know what more to say about it...

this song sucks ass

It’s catchy, but I really thought that the awful Carters album from last year signalled a bit of an end in relevance for songs about tasteless, excessive and wasteful consumption / flexing.

Like, compared to how much I enjoyed the overall message of thank u, next and No Tears Left to Cry, I find the “message” here totally odious in 2019.

Destroy capitalism etc.

http://www.katyjon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Rik-Mayall-Rick-in-The-Young-Ones-428x372.png

well she's certainly doing what she's supposed to be doing

such a nothing-y track, its weird how all over the place her quality has been with these albums

it's going to be a huge hit

i will say one thing i appreciate about her right now is the pace of her releases. like if you're in a position to be releasing hit after hit after hit, as she obviously is, you might as well encourage radio to stop being so fucking slow

I think if she had released it soon after recording it (and the now-famous Tiffany visit), it would have had a fun, throwaway immediacy; a document of a moment in time. But to give it the long build-up treatment... idk, I laughed as soon as I heard her singing the melody. It sort of felt like being punked, or on the receiving end of a good-natured grift.

Ugh “7 rings” is such an annoying single.

And no this is not going to be a huge hit.

Or at least I hope it wont.

Time for new thread? AG5 tweets aplenty.

The first three songs have already been discussed here, and it's all sort of the same "era" (as they say) as Sweetener... but I'm cool w/a new thread if someone wants to start one!

just don't call the thread ag5

lemme stay .... in my bag ... cause i like .... when u mad .... issa mood .... issa vibe .... issa look .... issa match pic.twitter.com/5CVYoEDkcX

— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) January 24, 2019

it sure will be interesting to watch all of her critical goodwill evaporate in no time flat now that it's increasingly evident that she's fated to be the industry's female post malone!

My daughter watches reruns of her old TV show Sam and Cat and she is an awful, awful actress.

Really? My kids watch that (and Victorious) and I think she's great as Cat

What’s wrong with 7 rings? Not an anthem maybe, but kind of fun.