Album: k bye for now (swt live) by Ariana Grande (2019)
Record Label: Republic Records
Format: Live

Artist Background: Ariana Grande-Butera (born June 26, 1993), known professionally as Ariana Grande (/ˌɑriːˈɑːnə ˈɡrɑːndeɪ/), is an American singer and actress. She began her career in the Broadway musical 13, before landing the role of Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon television series Victorious in 2009. After four seasons, the show ended, and Grande starred in the spinoff, Sam & Cat, which ended in 2014. She has also appeared in other theatre, television, and film roles and lent her voice to anim... Part of the Boca Raton, Florida music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Pop movement. Known for Urban/R&B style.

Related Artists: Sabrina Carpenter, Madison Beer, Cynthia Erivo, SZA

Music Scene: Part of the Boca Raton, Florida music scene. Emerged in the 2000s era. Associated with Pop movement. Known for Urban/R&B style.

Tags: 2010s, Live, Republic Records


What do you do when things fall apart? If you’re Ariana Grande, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and head for the studio. Her hopeful fourth album, Sweetener—written after the deadly attack at her concert in Manchester—encouraged fans to stay strong and open to love (at the time, the singer was newly engaged to Pete Davidson). Shortly after the album’s release in August 2018, things fell apart again: Grande’s ex-boyfriend, rapper Mac Miller, died from an overdose in September and her relationship with Davidson ended a few weeks later. 
Again, Grande took solace from the intense, and intensely public, heartache in songwriting, but this time things were different. thank u, next, mostly recorded over those tumultuous months, sees her turning inward in an effort to cope, grieve, heal and let go. “Though I wish he were here instead/Don’t want that living in your head,” she confesses on “ghostin”, a gutting synth-and-strings ballad that hovers in your throat. “He just comes to visit me/When I’m dreaming every now and then.” Like many of the songs here, it was produced by Max Martin, who has a supernatural way of making pain and suffering sound like beams of light. 
The album doesn't arrive a minute too soon. As Grande wrestles with what she wants—distance (“NASA”) and affection (“needy”), anonymity (“fake smile"), star power (“7 rings”) and sex without strings attached (“bloodline”, “make up”)—we learn more and more about the woman she’s becoming: complex, independent, tenacious. Surely embracing all of that is its own form of self-empowerment. 
But Grande also isn't in a rush to grow up. A week before the album’s release, she swapped out a particularly sentimental song called “Remember” with the provocative, *NSYNC-sampling “break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored”. As expected, it sent her fans into a frenzy. “I know it ain’t right/But I don’t care,” she sings. Maybe the ride is just starting.

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