Pre-Release
- NOV 22, 2024
- 13 Songs
- Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat · 2024
- eternal sunshine · 2024
- thank u, next · 2019
- thank u, next · 2018
- Sweetener · 2018
- Dangerous Woman · 2016
- Sweetener · 2018
- Positions · 2020
- thank u, next · 2019
- Positions · 2020
Essential Albums
- It’s no coincidence that the cover photo for Ariana Grande’s fourth album is her first not in black and white. She told Apple Music’s Ebro Darden that Sweetener is different because, “It’s the first time I feel more present than ever, and I see colors more.” Her new outlook comes just over a year since the devastating attack at her 2017 Manchester concert that killed 22 people and injured over 500, leaving Grande “permanently affected.” She responded with Sweetener, a gorgeous, pastel album about love, happiness, strength, and womanhood. She’s deeply in love, evidenced on the tropical “blazed,” and “R.E.M,” with harmonies described as “rainbow clouds” by Pharrell, who produced over half the album. She exits a toxic relationship in “better off”; “God is a woman” is a feminine, sex-positive anthem that she told Darden is her “favourite thing I’ll probably ever do”. The album closer “get well soon” is a self-care message she wrote immediately following a panic attack. “It's about being there for each other and helping each other through scary times and anxiety,” she told Darden. “I wanted to give people a hug, musically.” Sonically, Sweetener brings some surprises—sparse rhythms and what she calls “dreamier” harmonies replace many of the huge beats and choruses she’s famous for. She said the album is “more like me as a person. And what I’ve been craving to do.”
Albums
Artist Playlists
- The pop princess with a massive voice racks up some monster hits.
- A high-gloss diva who can play delicate or fierce.
- The singer puts her impressive voice to work on songs about love and loss.
- A huge pop star with huge influences.
- “I have to remember that there is life outside of making stuff.”
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Appears On
- When Ariana Grande put him on—and took over the White House.
- Celebrating Ariana’s album eternal sunshine.
- Ari launches a bold new era with help from her “lifelong inspiration.”
- The pop star on her album eternal sunshine.
- The story behind a modern pop classic.
- Ariana Grande turned trauma into triumph with “get well soon.”
- Featuring music from Ariana Grande’s latest album ‘Positions.'
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About Ariana Grande
Armed with a mesmerizing, nimble soprano—and a vocal register often likened to those of Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera—Ariana Grande began her career as a child star on Broadway and Nickelodeon before transforming into a pop and R&B powerhouse. Instantly recognizable thanks to her signature ponytail and breezy self-confidence, Grande, born in Florida in 1993, has developed a slyly sexual personal brand that has, like that of the Spice Girls before her, become an iconic image of young female power. But Grande is more than a symbol: Over the course of several albums and scores of hit singles across the genre spectrum—beginning with 2013’s R&B crooner “The Way” (featuring Mac Miller) and continuing through to an EDM collab with Zedd (“Break Free”), slinky retro-soul (“Dangerous Woman”), and diva trap-pop (“7 rings”)—she has consistently outshined her male collaborators and deftly parlayed her stardom into activism. An LGBTQ+ advocate and outspoken feminist, she has long used her platform to confront misogyny, sexism, homophobia, and bullying, spreading a message of love over all. Her Max Martin-produced smash “no tears left to cry,” an escapist dance-floor triumph released a year after a deadly terrorist attack at one of her concerts in 2017, and its subsequent album, Sweetener, sent a message of hope and healing, with a dose of hear-me-roar attitude. Grande’s pop vision has since focused inward, using music as a therapeutic tool for spiritual growth. After experiencing a devastating personal loss with the death of ex-boyfriend Mac Miller in 2018, she re-emerged with 2019’s thank u, next, an elegiac album that was as therapeutic as it was dance-ready, with a title track that sends off ex-lovers with a gentle kiss on the cheek. The following year’s pandemic-written Positions highlights Grande’s mellifluous vocals and her desire to be content in love—even when boasting about her sexual prowess (as on the cheeky “34+35”), the real star of her heart is her own self. And on her lush, auto-fictitious 2024 concept album, eternal sunshine, she glides with a coy smile and a heavenly whistle through the emotions of a woman betrayed, perceived, and adored, with a short wave to critics and tabloids on the pulsing house groove of “yes, and?”
- HOMETOWN
- Boca Raton, FL, United States
- BORN
- June 26, 1993
- GENRE
- Pop