The American Ariana Grande he transformed the flow of emotions, reflections and, above all in his case, comments from the subsequent audience a sentimental breakup on his first studio album in four years, but far from dwelling on the thickest melancholy, he uses dance as a catalyst.
The seventh album of his career, Eternal sunreleased this Friday all over the world, proposes from that cover, in which the performer and composer seems to lean on her own shoulder, what is another necessary balm in these cases, and this is how she sings it: “Be your fucking best Friend .”
Since announcing her departure less than two months ago, Ariana Grande (Boca Ratón, 1993) has limited information about this work as much as possible, for example with the release of a single, Yes, yes?with which he repeats Taylor Swift’s game Midnight (2023).
According to her record company, Ariana wanted to emphasize listening to her new songs in album format, which acquire all their meaning together and in a specific order.
“They are all different and elevated pieces of the same story, of the same experience,” confirmed the artist in an interview about this “conceptual album”.
What every lover wants to know
Eternal sun It begins with a question: “How do I know if I’m in the right relationship?”, and, after thirteen cuts and just over half an hour, his own grandmother gives him the answer: “Don’t go to bed without a goodnight kiss. It’s the worst thing you can do. And if that makes you uncomfortable, then you’re in the wrong place. Get out of there.”
As a musical personality, with two Grammys and a Estimated sales of over 90 million recordsIt’s hard for Ariana Grande to escape public scrutiny, especially at times like after her late 2023 divorce from real estate agent Dalton Gomez.
Or forget the tragedy in Manchester, when on 22 May 2017 a terrible terrorist attack occurred at his concert which caused 22 deaths and more than a thousand injuries.
A few days later, Ariana organized a benefit concert for the city and the families of the victims, in which she brought together artists such as Robbie Williams, Miley Cyrus, Coldplay and Liam Gallager, among many others.
What he said about his new album
Ariana Grande explained that this album is the result of a very fast creative process (he began to make it last September, in parallel with his sentimental debacle) and in eternal sun It is the artist who takes the initiative to tell the story of his life in front of the tabloid press.
This was the message that already appears in the video clip of Yes, yes?in which mocks gratuitous comments from die-hard fans and criticswhen one of them points out, “Who cares if he’s happy? I don’t want happiness, I want art.”
“In some songs I’m really vulnerable, in others it’s like playing the role that people sometimes expect from me,” he said about these new songs, confirming once again, as in this “single”, that he draws from the culture about “voguing” and what Madonna did with it, which sometimes the dance floor is the best catalyst for evacuating pain.
Against Positions (2020), their previous album, here are more up-tempo and danceable cuts, you see HI OR We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Love)always from that elegant perspective that Grande left his mark, with echoes of Motown music and 90s R&B (there’s also a song called The boy is minebut nothing to do with Brandy and Monica).
Another figure that appears as a reference in these matters is that of Mariah Carey (the vocal comparisons were inevitable from the start) and Grande decided to materialize it with a duet re-recording of Yes, yes? which he released a few weeks ago but which does not appear as part of the definitive edition of the album.
But if there is an important meeting after the parenthesis that his previous album entailed, it is the one established in the vast majority of cuts with the Swede Max Martin, responsible for countless global pop successes of the last 30 years and also collaborator as co-author and co-producer of five of his albums, with hits such as problem, To break free, Dangerous woman OR There are no tears left to cry.
With his hand, and that of other regular collaborators such as Ilya Salmanzadeh or Shintaro Yashuda, he weaves a pleasant mattress of songs, sometimes friendly whispers to calm the mind without having to remove memories, as happened in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. .no memory (Eternal light of the pure mind), to which Grande pays homage in the album title.
Source: EFE/Javier Herrero.
Source: Clarin