Ariana Grande’s ‘Petal’ Introduces an Angry and Angular Ari: Album Review
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- Guardian Music·4h agoAriana Grande: Petal review – calm, controlled anger at exes, fans and the media
(Republic) Casting herself as a flower trampled underfoot, the superstar’s eighth album swaps the glitz of her Wicked years for dark blooms of haunted electronics ‘Tell me who’s to blame?” Ariana Grande asks, exasperated, on the title track of her eighth album, Petal. “Is it…
Read at Guardian Music → - Variety·16h agoAriana Grande’s ‘Petal’ Introduces an Angry and Angular Ari: Album Review
On the surface, Ariana Grande’s “Petal” is a sister album to its predecessor, 2024’s “Eternal Sunshine” — it was made with the same two collaborators, Ilya Salmanzadeh and Max Martin, and it also was entirely written, performed and produced by the three of them. Usually, that…
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