ariana grande - my everything

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.

Loving this.

"thinking bout you" is also incredible

the nicki cod-reggae one is lots of fun

http://www.change.org/p/metacritic-discard-rolling-stone-s-review-of-ariana-grande-s-dangerous-woman

poor whiney

Yesterday I went to a cool bbq and dj'd with friends and discovered a new band I like and met a promising gf candidate and yet by far the highlight of my day was that change dot org petition about whiney's ariana grande review lmao

Look @ how many signatures it has 😂😭

lmaoooooo

finally the future has arrived

http://i.imgur.com/kgv6YAq.png

Great album. Would sign.

gosh that key change in "greedy" is demonic

macy gray's "nina simone pitches to do a bond theme" turn on this album is unexpected

This is exactly why we need Sanders, he'll stand up to these corporate fat cat music critics

this album makes me sooooooo happy & that petition even happier

"utilizing her lower register with superb enunciation"

"Touch it" is a towering achievement

can't think of a recent pop album with better bonus tracks than this one - maybe 1989?

Superb album

yung nicki chim-i-ney delights me

Haven't been struck by her stuff before but "Into You" and "Touch It" and "Thinking Bout You" are so good!

Starting to think that this is a perfect pop album. Hello summer!

can't think of a recent pop album with better bonus tracks than this one - maybe 1989?

idk almost all of the recent pop records i've heard have had bonus tracks orders better than what made the official tracklisting; what makes the ariana bonuses remarkable is that i don't really hate any part of the normal record, and then the cluster of tracks at the end elevate the whole thing considerably, especially "bad decisions" and "touch it"

really psyched to hear a pop record this year that doesn't suffer from overcalculation

i believe whiney
#teamwhogivesashit

It's a four-paragraph review ffs.

Man, "Thinking Bout You"

yung nicki chim-i-ney delights me

― cher guevara (lex pretend), Sunday, 22 May 2016 12:30 Bookmark

WRIST ICICLE RIDE DICK BICYCLE!!!

are people really not here 4 the title track

the guitar tones <3 the heady rush of the pre-chorus <3 the "i wanna savour / save it for later / the taste, the flavour / 'cause i'm a taker / 'cause i'm a giver / it's only nature / i live for dangeeeeer" section <3

my other faves are "thinking bout you" (so intimate & light & warm, mdma vibes 2 me, tryna forget that dr. luke blates ghostproduced it), "everyday" (fucking banger - HEEEE GIVIN ME THA GOOD SHIT; the bananas whistling in final chorus is woah), "into you" (obv), "bad decisions" ("piano"-esque bounce to this), "touch it" (colossal & cinematic & other words), "i don't care" (mmmm). & all the other 1s

It's a four-paragraph review ffs.

― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, May 22, 2016 12:31 PM (2 hours ago)

the problem with the review was apparent before any of the change.org petitioners actually read it -- its score is "too low" and, more importantly, included on metacritic

have not heard this album yet but excited to do so!

This album was reminding me in a good way of Mya's Moodring, and I think the combined sense of largesse and range but lack of over-calculation is a big part of it.

it's super-calculated though, from the styles it encompasses to the guests - it's not a curveball album and it's def tailor-made to today's commercial landscape. it basically has the same aims as the second album, it just executes them so much better (and so much more fitting to her actual voice).

well right I'm not saying it's not precisely calibrated, it just doesn't feel like it's trying to be too many things at once, or trying to be one thing so hard that it becomes lifeless