![]() While Sweetener insists that there was nothing that couldn’t be endured, Thank U, Next offers an amendment, a reality check. So even if we haven’t had to struggle with the complex emotions of losing an ex while being in a new relationship (“Ghostin”) or soothed inner turmoil with the shopping spree to end all shopping sprees (“7 rings”), there’s already a perverse intimacy to these songs.īillboard Woman of the Year Ariana Grande: 'There's Not Much I'm Afraid of Anymore' ![]() ![]() To have shared so much with her audience has given Grande’s songs a kind of emotional shortcut: we can identify instantly, because instead of bringing our own experiences to the songs, we can draw from what we’ve seen in the headlines and on social media. It’s almost impossible to imagine that anyone listening to this record will not know Grande’s recent history: that 22 of her fans were killed in a terrorist attack at her Manchester concert in 2017 that she left a relationship with Mac Miller in the spring of 2018 due at least in part to his struggles with substance abuse that she fell hard and fast (and very publicly) in love with Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson a few weeks later that Miller passed away last fall that her relationship with Davidson ended one month later.
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