with TU,N, Grande is swaggering with the confidence that comes with stardom

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Three months after the August 2018 release of Sweetener -- her fourth album, delivered in the wake of the 2017 tragedy at Manchester Arena -- Ariana Grande released "Thank U, Next," a clever pop song celebrating how each ex turned her into a better person. The refrain of "one taught me love, one taught me patience, and one taught me pain" quickly turned "Thank U, Next" into something more than a hit: it was a meme, eating up all the pop-cultural oxygen at the end of 2018, confirming Ariana Grande's position as the pre-eminent pop star of the moment.[...]

The difference with Thank U, Next is this time Grande is swaggering with the confidence that comes with unquestioned stardom.

This freedom can be heard in "Thank U, Next," which flips heartbreak into empowerment, and is effectively the keynote for its parent album. Grande does delve into explicit darkness more than she did on Sweetener -- Miller's death haunts the album, specifically surfacing on "Ghosting" -- but she never loses sight that this is a pop album, designed to provide a soundtrack for good times as well as the bad. To this end, Thank U, Next benefits from its quick execution. Conceptually, the album feels slighter than Sweetener, which was designed to be a grand statement, but the loose ends and crass commercial cul-de-sacs scattered throughout Thank U, Next seem human -- perhaps she's appropriating several cultures on "7 Rings," yet its celebration of healing heartbreak through consumerism suits a singer who also urges a crush to break up with a girlfriend just because she's bored.

Such sentiments are the product of a singer who not only knows what she wants but knows that she's wanted, and that attitude unites and propels Thank U, Next through its ballads and R&B jams, turning it into an album that embodies every aspect of Ariana Grande, the grand pop star.

9/10

https://www.allmusic.com/album/thank-u-next-mw0003246119

I mean would AllMusic, a reviewer which counts for metacritic, lie?? 

[Regina George 59,387]

I see what you did with posting this article  and I love it! 

I agree and would give it 10/10.

[techhausmonster 175]

I love this. I don't understand why people don't like this album? This album is easily her best in my opinion.

[SCHEISSEMONTRE 2,783]

She can have criticism now?

2 minutes ago, ReginaGeorge said:

I see what you did with posting this article  and I love it! 

I agree and would give it 10/10.

 

[Regina George 59,387]

Just now, SCHEISSEMONTRE said:

She can have criticism now?

 

Where did I say she can’t?  Literally no where. - As long as it’s not offensive and rude ofc. All I mentioned in other thread is constant negativity from some members that I noticed here. That’s all. Also wasn’t talking about you in particular so...  

[SCHEISSEMONTRE 2,783]

1 hour ago, ReginaGeorge said:

Where did I say she can’t?  Literally no where. - As long as it’s not offensive and rude ofc. All I mentioned in other thread is constant negativity from some members that I noticed here. That’s all. Also wasn’t talking about you in particular so...  

Oh okay

[Galagala 4,607]

This is my favorite Ariana album. 

But it's still not that good like other pop queens' works. 

[pedrohemg 7,802]

[Eddie 2,518]

1 hour ago, techhausmonster said:

I love this. I don't understand why people don't like this album? This album is easily her best in my opinion.

Because when you listen to it it gets repetitive with the trap beat in all the songs and there are people that don't like the production and the more hip hop/rap sound and it definetly has cringy lyrics.

I think is a more cohesive album and it has good songs and really really bad songs...nothing that blows you away like God Is A Woman or NTLTC but with better songs than half of sweetener