Has NTLTC proven Ariana doesn't need features?

[Born To Slay 10,996]

For Ariana Grande, the joke for years has been that she can't sell on her own and that she needs features to be successful. Has No Tears Left To Cry ended that? The single has been quite successful in any metric you can think of and it's a solo single. 

[Ryusei 59,929]

She didn't have to prove anything IMO Baby I didn't have any features. Break Free only has a producer feature. She just likes collabing I guess. I love NTLTC and am glad it's doing well in streams and itunes and radio. 

[Yuuri 21,636]

I guess Ariana ft. Nicki will be the new Gwen Stefani ft. Eve.

[Reginald 13,675]

In my opinion, that was proven since Into You. I think features and rap verses in pop songs are so tired. They were new and fresh for a while but after 25 years of them, *yawwwwwwn* 

[MarryTheAngel 551]

6 minutes ago, Sharyu said:

I guess Ariana ft. Nicki will be the new Gwen Stefani ft. Eve.

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

She's never needed features tbh...

Rap verses impact on female pop singles is very much overrated. Labels act as if putting X rapper on any song immediately makes it more likely to be a single, but the truth is if its not a good verse or a good song, it won't do well, even if it does open them up to be played on Rhythmic, Urban, etc.

(Not there's anything wrong with having a feature on a song... Stans just look for reasons to cause drama and shade people  Who gives a **** if a song goes #1 but has a feature or whatever, it takes nothing away from the song)

[Lucas 20,523]

One Last Time, Break Free (solo vocals right ?), Into You are strong proofs

[Dominic 11,922]

 

29 minutes ago, Born To Slay said:

For Ariana Grande, the joke for years has been that she can't sell on her own and that she needs features to be successful. 

When did anyone ever say that? 

[Skinny Legend 770]

1 hour ago, Dominic said:

 

When did anyone ever say that? 

 

It was a thing during My Everything up until Dangerous Woman that her biggest hits were featuring other artists.  They were just using that to drag her comparing her to Selena Gomez etc on forums like atrl. 

Ariana has proven she's a force long ago.

[ThisGuyTony 23,637]

She proved it a while ago but the tired collaborations with Nicki and other mumble rappers make it hard to convince non-fans.

[Princess Stache 2,066]

One Last Time, Dangerous Woman, and Into You had no features

[sipthistea 21,099]

The only thing it proved it that she needs better songs with deeper lyrics.

She deserves them. Her voice deserves better songs. 

[Bradley 54,906]

She has so many solo songs I think she's doing just fine.

Dangerous Woman, Focus, No Tears Left to Cry, Into You, Break Free, One Last Time.

But yes she's had some really huge hits with features like Side to Side, Love Me Harder, Problem, Bang Bang.