Arianators, rejoice!
‘Dangerous Woman,’ the highly anticipated third LP of Ariana Grande, has finally made its way onto shelves.
After weeks of endless teasers, some of which included the pint-size powerhouse dropping full versions of the tunes that line the album in the days before its release, the once embattled project has become available for streaming and purchase via wide release on its first day.
The step is a departure from most of the year’s bigger-named projects which have limited their availability to certain platforms. Will the move pay off?
Fans undoubtedly remember ‘Dangerous’ was off to quite the dangerous start. The era, originally titled ‘Moonlight,’ was literally kicked off weeks after the songstress was engaged in the worst publicity of her short, yet storied career. Not exactly touching a sweet-spot in America’s heart after a donut-licking stunt also saw her spew anti-American sentiments, Grande forged ahead with the release of the not-so-well received ‘Focus.’
Despite fair streaming power and a history-making top 10 debut, the song’s brief impact encouraged Ari and team to quickly shift their focus to changing the direction (and release date) of the new project. Evolved to ‘Dangerous Woman,’ the songs and concept of the album shows the singer making a much desired (and probably much needed) step toward artistic and personal growth. Leaving behind the pure pop-friendly bops that lined her first project, Grande is making a grand entrance into more unadulterated R&B/soul sounds.
Tapping ‘Bang Bang’ co-star Nicki Minaj (click here to listen), Future (click here to listen), Lil Wayne (click here to listen), and surprise guest Macy Gray (click here to listen) along for the 15-track ride, ‘Woman’ sees Ari try to embrace – more than ever – being just that…a grown woman. More importantly, she’s hoping the buying public gets the memo.
With that in mind, tell us:
Your thoughts?
Am smelling a Megan Trainor follow up sales.
The only song that I really like on this album is “Into You”.”My Everything” was a better album as a whole.
Nothing about this person says woman to me; just a child in a ridiculous costume. The album should be called privileged jerk. I won’t be buying it.
Nope. I don’t buy music from donut licking midgets.
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Ctfu
its an overall good album, i like moonlight, be alright, thinking about you, and my fav is i don’t care. its a solid album although at moments she does sound like a chipmunk version of mariah
So far I enjoyed Moonlight, Let Me Love You, Be Alright, Greedy, Leave Me Lonely, Sometimes, and Thinking about You. Its a solid piece.
What can I say? The album shows a lot of sonic growth. Somehow I still can’t get into it. There’s always something about her that leaves me underwhelmed. The album is cohesive. It’s pleasing to the average listener. I just wanted something more from her. She could be the total package. But her visuals, promo, releases….they are the things that lack cohesiveness. I still feel like I’m watching a Disney character perform bops. When Britney did this, her growth felt so natural. I feel like Ariana is still 12 years old, and it’s because of her team.
Effort: B+
Execution: C
I actually don’t even think the music is cohesive. The album is pretty monotonous. Of course when you sing about the same thing in the same dance heavy pop tart genre, it’s gonna sound cohesive. There are 1 or 2 tracks that stand out, but as a whole, the album lacks variety. I’m just using Lemonade as an example. Making songs like Don’t hurt yourself, Daddy Lessons, and Hold up, and Sorry on one album, without it being all over the place, and it working, that’s cohesiveness. That’s an album. Ariana doesn’t have to dabble in several genres to achieve this, but the point is, I just don’t think you should get points for cohesiveness if you’re just making several different versions of the same song. I mean, Everyday, Let me love you, Into you, Touch it, Bad Decisions, Thinking of you, eh, they really aren’t that different.
Hell to the No!
She’s 3 albums in and hasn’t released a classic yet…Nothing memorable. Streamed it today, cute songs but nothing to press replay, other than “Into You”.
Oh oh oh poor Ariana can’t she do some serious music than this wrongly copied back to basiscs
This literally sounds nothing like Back to Basics. The ultimate reach
No. The entire album with the bonus songs leaked days ago, but I don’t like the album as a whole anyway. I like I don’t care, leave me lonely is okay, and I find myself listening to touch it and moonlight pretty often. Gave it away is also a good vocal performance. But the album is still too generic for me, though it’s better than My Everything. There is absolutely no narrative to this album. It’s a bunch of songs that sounded cute and she threw them on the album. No story. No actual rhyme or reason. You’d think with the title “Dangerous Woman” the music would be more bold, assertive, dark, daring. I’m not getting it. It was named moonlight and she said she liked Dangerous Woman (the song) so much, she made it the lead single and retitled the album. That makes no sense. I can get with Ariana, the singer. But I’m not too fond of Ariana, the artist.
SHE CAN KEEP ITTTTTT!
Im only going to buy the Be Alright track, half the album had already been released, but no other songs really interested me
I won’t be buying. Unfortunately i find her voice annoying and more so on this album. I like some songs but imagine them sung better by other artists.
I wish her luck though.
Lol this bìtch even has a pop up ad for this album on Grìñďèr
Already a metacritic score of 77 just from 6 reviews. She’ll be just fine. The tour will gross more than the last one too.
No….
I wasted my money ?
KIIIIII LMAO this made me actually LOL!!!! serves you right!!
Her best overall album to date in my opinion. What I love the most is the growth she has shown. She’s participating more in the creative process, her sound is more cohesive and mature, and the vocals are on point as per usual. I’m expecting another critically acclaimed album and hopefully her first Grammy. I’m sure sales will be solid too with the tour knocking it out of the park. Ariana continues to impress me musically. I’m glad she didn’t go all out on the pop side either.
She and Sean were such a good looking couple, why did she let him go?
His d*** was to big for her tiny hole. OH GOD!!
Ponytail can send him my way then! KIIIII!
This undeveloped lil b*tch can keep it…
Good album but I’m tired of girls who aren’t black trying to use AAVE.it’s unsettling. Meghan Trainor just did the same thing on on “thank you” talmbout she on a”low hater diet” like I’m really sick of this. And then meghan says s*** like “be like” or whatever and it’s offensive considering that’s literally not how you speak on a regular basis until you get in the booth. Anyway Ariana did the same think talking about she got that hood love when we know good and well that she’s not hood at all. Lol that’s what makes you a dangerous woman? The hood? F.uck outta here. Then she said that she was a bad b**** like WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO PROVE ARIANA? lol its comical but it was a nice album.
Point blank period I’m tired of black culture being used as a stepping stone for artists to have a “bad” phase in their career. I’m so sick of this.
Arando Grando is a sad little chica. Remember take hair advice from Erykah Badu next time when you put a towel over it! Erykah knows how to do it justice! SHE WOULD BE OFFENDED BY THAT “WHITE TOWEL”. Only Gwyneth Paltrow would do such a thing! The Irony is this article was written by Chris Martins. I rest my case!
Nice