This is indeed evident on Dangerous Woman, even if the results are uneven at times.Home News Best New Music Reviews Albums Tracks Sunday Reviews 8.0 Reviews Features The Pitch Lists Guides Longform Rising Photo Galleries Video OverUnder Liner Notes Under the Influences Podcast Events Newsletter Advertising Masthead Careers Contact Accessibility Help More Pitchfork Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago Pitchfork Music Festival Paris Pitchfork Music Festival Berlin Pitchfork Radio Pitchfork Podcast Home News Reviews Best New Music Features The Pitch Video Podcast Staff Picks Events Toggle main navigation menu Open search module Expand audio player Home News Reviews Best New Music Features The Pitch Video Podcast Staff Picks Events Toggle main navigation menu Open search module Expand audio player Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman Republic 2016 7.6 by Quinn Moreland Staff Writer PopRB May 25 2016 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Open share drawer Ariana Grandes third album finds the 22-year-old pop star embracing a Sasha Fierce-like alter ego, with the help of Future, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Macy Gray, and others.In that crowd, Grande didnt really seem like the bad girl; maybe she knew one she could fix you up with As she told Complex the year before,I dont see myself as sexy and Im not comfortable being sexy and dressing sexy.
But she seems to have taken the Bang Bang lyric as a mood-board inspiration for her third album Dangerous Woman, which finds the 22-year-old trading in the mini-skirts, go-go boots, and cat ears for a Sasha Fierce-like alter ego. As a result, Grande spends most of Dangerous Woman coyly flirting with desire, bad decisions, and independence. Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman, she sings on the chorus to the slow-burning title track, which is a few qualifications away from actual danger. Theres something about the whole album that feels a bit like Sandy in her skintight leather outfit at the end of Grease, only in Aris case, its a latex bunny mask. Dangerous Woman Tour Live Studio Version Full Of BangersAnd as in her previous album My Everything, which was chock-full of bangers like the Zedd -produced Break Free, the production on her new Dangerous Woman is enormous, full of flirty pop eruptions and slinky dancefloor seductions. ![]() However, the listener comes away from Dangerous Woman feeling like they still dont know much about the ponytailed lady peeping out from behind the mask. ![]() Moonlight offers the albums closest thing to a ballad, all celestial romance and melismas. But its serenity is quickly steamrolled over by Dangerous Woman, the real introduction to the record. Dangerous Woman is a slinky, empowered, Bond theme of a belter; you can practically picture her sauntering down a grand staircase in a floor-length gown and fur on the way to seduce and destroy a lover. After the quake of Dangerous Woman, Be Alright and Into You are appropriately both cool, snappy little thumpers. Nicki Minajs verse on Side to Side is a far cry from the duos Pinkprint collaboration Get on Your Knees which found both women returning to the personalities of Bang Bang, Ariana as a doe-eyed vixen, Nicki as the tough-as-nails Queen. That chemistry is absent here and instead Minajs bored, reggae-tinged verse compliments neither women. ![]() Lil Wayne s appearance on Let Me Love You was one of Dangerous Woman s more surprising features, yet perhaps predictably, Weezy seems sleepy. He manages to throw out the cringe-worthy line She grinding on this Grande, oh lord, and not even the obligatory moolah baby saves him from sounding half-hearted. A majority of his contribution is repeating the songs title, Everyday, making him Dangerous Woman s more minimalist version of Big Sean on Problem. If Futures sexual-devotion-filled verse was taken away, it would be immediately obvious that Everyday is constructed atop a pile of hot fluff. The only exception to this is Macy Grays Leave Me Lonely, which sets Grays raspy pipes against Grandes flawless vocals, adding a welcome change of consistency. Smack in the middle of all these features is Greedy, a romp that announces that Grande truly shines when she is given center stage. Dangerous Woman Tour Live Studio Version Free In ThoughtDangerous Woman Tour Live Studio Version How To Live AndShe continues to sing of growth and maturity from a former self (I used to let some people tell me how to live and what to be but if I cant be me then fucks the point) with the point being that she is now free in thought and action.
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