Sometimes: We’ve heard Grande do R&B and flirt with synth-pop, so the acoustic guitars that open Sometimes suggest a quieter, more unplugged ballad. Touch It: A heavier version of the EDM we hear Grande toying with throughout the record, Touch It channels the dead-eyed darkness of Grande collaborator The Weeknd, but the song's thudding dramatics only serving to bog her down.ġ1. Into You: This languid, beats-heavy song about infatuation and secret affairs doesn't do much to distinguish itself from Dangerous Woman's many others cut from the same cloth.ġ2.
Thinkin’ Bout You: Anthemic yet forgettable, this track could learn a thing or two from R&B recluse Frank Ocean’s song of the same name, which packs in the same yearning, just far more thoughtfully articulated.ġ3. Let Me Love You: The rest of the album transcends this clumsy Lil Wayne collaboration, mercifully stuck at the end of the album.ġ4. Wondering which songs you’ll be listening to all summer? We ranked Dangerous Woman’s 15 tracks from worst to best for your listening convenience.ġ5.
The EDM-toying, brazenly-confident Dangerous Woman (*** out of four), falls more into the same category of Drake’s Views a snapshot of a young superstar finding themselves, an journey of self-discovery spread out over a longer tracklist that has plenty of highs, and, yes, a few lows.
Stacking up Dangerous Woman against some of this spring’s other pop releases (and with so many releases packed into 2016’s first half, how could you not?), Grande’s third studio album is less a sibling of Beyonce’s Lemonade, which packs its heartbreak, revenge and reconciliation into a concise arc. And like its title suggests, it’s a mature portrait of an artist blessed with one of pop’s strongest voices, brimming with potential hits. Ariana Grande’s new album Dangerous Woman is finally here.
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