Ariana Grande’s New Album ‘Issa Bop – but Issa Message’
Ariana Grande talks the evolution of her ponytail, sharing music with fans, and her most “vulnerable” album yet in her The Fader interview.
Ariana Grande is the second of four artists to cover The FADER’s 2018 Summer Music Issue, following hip-hop group, SOB X RBE.
The 24-year-old “No More Tears Left to Cry”singer has reinvented herself with each new music era, and with her fourth album, Sweetener, she serves you her “bleeding heart” with “a trap beat behind it.”
In the midst of her Dangerous Woman era, Grande was already thinking of her new sound and told musician and producer, Pharrell to “take [her] somewhere completely new” with her music.
When the Manchester Attack happened, it gave the project a “hard reset” and led Grande to hit an “emotional rock bottom.”
The aftermath that followed gave context to the emotional depth of her new album and brought the pop star even closer to her fans.
Grande was initially worried that some songs from Sweetener are “too emotionally honest,” but she’s ready to bare all with her fans.
“There are parts of my life that they would love to know about,” she says, “and hard times that I have been dealing with for the past year-and-a-half that they deserve to know about because they love me endlessly and care. I don’t want to hide any pain from them because I can relate to their pain. Why not be in it together?”
