Ariana Grande - "Thank U, Next" (the album)

if you swap out some of the worse tracks for best ones on sweet that’s pretty close to a classic. just skipped thru sweetener again and it’s crazy how bad the pharrel tracks are lol

I'd keep REM, No Tears Left, Breathin and Succesful from Sweetener, i'd definitely ditch Make Up and 7 Rings from Thank You, Next but not much else. There's surely a good poll of all the tracks to be made, maybe in another coupla months or so tho.

With « breathin » and « better off » instead of « bad idea », « make up » or « in my head », it would be a classic album for me !

idk what people dislike about "make up", it's short but sweet and i love the syncopation

"make up" is not bad but I just never feel like listening to it so it's one of the tracks I always skip.

UK garage remix of 'Bad Idea' as soon as possible please.

Rod Liddle in not a fan shock

Ariana Grande's album is vapid, talentless, derivative, oversexed crap, says Rod Liddle. Pre-teen pop was never much cop. But compare this to the Monkees — or even Vanilla Ice. It's far worse.https://t.co/3eDsPzoAro

— The Spectator (@spectator) March 3, 2019

who?

Former editor of R4's Today programme and loveable racist, misogynist & assaulter of pregnant girlfriend half his age.

Best pop album since

Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It

Ahah Vanilla Ice

"her fanbase is sub-teen" -- maybe when she was still on victorious

Cool/interesting Tommy Brown interview: https://www.complex.com/music/2019/03/ariana-grande-producer-tommy-brown-thank-u-next-making-of

ooh

nice intw, thanks !
I like that, by all acounts, champagne was pretty central in the process !

that is matrix bullet time levels of dodging the "7 Rings" question

haha, I noticed that too 😉

this album is dope

anyone else (but me) have tix for the tour?

Nothing to do with this album but I watched Zoolander 2 yesterday (yeah, don't ask... I have no proper excuse or explanation for that... and it's even worse than I imagined it would be!) and she has a cameo in it : she plays a S&M chick in full leather/latex rabbit suit + mouth ball gag (and 1 line I think) !
That was... unexpected !

i think i had given up on her making another album this good again

"ghostin" is one of the best songs about relationship dynamics i've heard in a while & i can't believe they came up w it on the same protracted timeline as the rest of this album

« Ghostin » is wonderful. I don’t know enough about her stuff before Dangerous Woman but it might be her richest song, both lyrically and musically. What a great album. The more I listen to it, the more I love it, except the 3 songs I pass and have actually removed from my edited version of the album (replaced with « Breathin » and « Better off » which share the same emotional/confessional core as the rest of the album).

Best songs:

Fake Smile
Break Up...
Bloodlines
Ghostin'
Thank U, Next

No "NASA" ? It may be the one with the brightest melodies. Sometimes it's my favourite song of the album.

The tour starts today, in Albany

this is dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGeH483gNOg

she’s on one

love the horns

They had a voting booth last night at the opening show, decked out in the Sweetener colours with "the future is voting" written on it.
Couldn't love this woman more i'm sorry.

..or voting 'stand' i guess. Whatever you call it.

pic.twitter.com/jDWYsFQMaq

— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) March 19, 2019

(Has there ever been an album that sequences the first three singles as the final three tracks??)

Listened to this for the first time today on Spotify without looking at the tracklist and I really liked it but kept thinking "when are the songs I know coming up?"

Looks like new track “Monopoly” coming soon:

You ain’t neva lied and this moment waaay too special!! Let’s dooo it!
🥂✨🍾 😌 🎉 https://t.co/thf78JVA5e

— Victoria Monét (@VictoriaMonet) March 28, 2019

lol this new track is trash

more power to her if she wants to release her music on her own schedule etc but still

No it's fresh and it rules!

A marvelous read:

https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/did-ariana-grande-copy-7-rings.html

xp (it's also "a thank you to them fans" -- so if you're not feeling it, wait for the next one!)

cover art -

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/arianagrande/images/a/a6/Monopoly.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350

This is her greatest video... The song rules, the video rules, it’s all perfecto 👌

ahah, it's a cute video (that reminds me of the videos I was making back in like 93 with my father's camcorder... except for the FX of course)and the song is fun but it's all pretty lightweight and anecdotal imo(and that's fine !).

i might be a few week late but 'imagine' is incredible.

^yeah, it’s remarkable. I’m a little surprised it never got more attention (even after being released as a “promotional single” last fall, performed on TV, etc.)

My copy of that 7” finally arrived (“Thank U, Next” b/w “Imagine”). I don’t normally buy redundant vinyl just on “collector/fan” impulse, but it feels like holding a perfect slice of history.

Cracking set list last night at Coachella. No Bloodline though which is a surprise.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/ariana-grande/2019/empire-polo-grounds-indio-ca-139329cd.html

rinsed this lp the past week. 'ghostin' is the most emotional cut of pop ive heard in the past ten years, fuck. the whole record's texturally gorgeous.

Weirdly, Ariana Grande was one of the first people to know the details of this piece. I was catching up with a friend, in March, and she walked into his flat. Turns out they've known each other for fifteen years. We talked about Abu Hafs al-Mauritani's post-9/11 escape to Iran. https://t.co/s1T6G7H1WI

— Ben Taub (@bentaub91) April 20, 2019

I’m waiting in line to get into the venue for this show... there are ppl wearing literal Ariana Grande costumes in this crowd.

These are my peeps; preteen girls and their moms

I wasn't planning to give my impressions of the show, but since y'all keep asking...

It was pretty fantastic overall; her performance was outstanding. The peak of the set is a sustained string of old & new hits that had the crowd raging; the energy was insane (at least in my section). It takes a little while to build up to that... things start kind of slow (darkened stage, slower songs). In contrast to the Dangerous Woman Tour, the stage is almost totally bare, with no props etc.; just those big orbs and projections (which you've probably seen).

They cram a ton of songs into the set, drawing from all 5 albums -- and many of the songs are abbreviated, to accomplish this, but it doesn't feel rushed or like a "revue." I did think the flow was a little odd in some places, and a few arrangements didn't work so well ("No Tears Left to Cry," of all songs, was leaden). But the core stretch of the show was awesome, beyond satisfying. I kind of wish I had tickets to another tour date!