Most modern big-budget albums, including Sweetener, are front-loaded or fat in the middle before tapering off. ![]() “You’re used to hearing her singing pop records, maybe a soul-based record,” Roberts explains. The resulting album stands out from the rest of Grande’s catalog. “Then we spent the next week cleaning them up, adding more things, doing production, cutting a few more songs.” “The first week we already had nine songs or so,” Monét says. In New York, Grande and company were wildly productive. “It was a good distraction to be in that space. “I was still grieving the loss of one of my best friends,” adds Njomza Vitia, a co-writer on both “Thank U, Next” and “7 Rings,” and also the first artist to release music through Miller’s label Remember Music. “That’s what we were holding on to - along with some champagne glasses.” ![]() “It goes without saying that it was a very trying time, but music naturally is a healing mechanism,” explains Monét, who co-wrote six tracks on Thank U, Next. “It was like, ‘the next few months are cancelled, this is really hard for me, I don’t wanna move.'”īut roughly two weeks after Grande thought about cancelling work, the singer flew to New York to write with another pair of longtime collaborators, Max Martin and Savan Kotecha. ![]() The day before the album’s release, the full album leaked online.“She wasn’t gonna tour,” Monét acknowledges. Two days before the album’s release, on February 5th, 2019, she revealed the third single would be the newly added final track, “break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored.” The track list and cover art were eventually revealed on the ‘Sweetener’ Instagram account on January 22nd, 2019. Finally, Ariana confirmed the final release date to be February 8th. A fan then tweeted stating that he hopes the album would be released in February, to which Ari replied “hbd” meaning Happy Birthday. Additionally, she confirmed the album would have no features. There, she confirmed that the pre-order would be available that Friday, and that she would reveal the cover art and official tracklist. On January 21st, 2019, Ariana held a Q&A on her Twitter. “7 rings” was eventually released on January 18th. A week later, she announced the track’s release date along with its cover art. On January 3rd, 2019, “7 rings” was announced on Twitter to be the second single from the album. A day later, she released the album’s first promotional single, “imagine.” On December 13th, 2018, Ariana annouced on Twitter that there would be thirteen tracks on the album. This video broke two YouTube records, becoming the biggest global-debut and becoming the fastest video to reach 100 million views. On November 30th, 2018, Ariana released the official video for “thank u, next.” The video interpolated several 2000s movies including Mean Girls and Bring It On and featured cameo appearances from several celebrities like Kris Jenner and Troye Sivan. In the video, she teased this album’s tracklist. On November 7th, 2018, Ari released the official video for “breathin,” a song from her previous studio album, Sweetener. On November 3rd, 2018, the same day she confirmed the album’s name on Twitter, Ariana released the album’s title track, “thank u, next.” The song was released 30 minutes before the airing of Saturday Night Live-in response to where her ex-fiancé Pete Davidson works. On October 4th, 2018, Ari tweeted a snippet, for the song “Needy,” and the following weeks, she continued to tease pieces from the album. This is Ariana’s first album in which she co-wrote every track, and that doesn’t include any features. The album revolves around its lead single and titular track, which is based on a since-deleted tweet Ariana made in response to a joke Pete Davidson made on the two’s failed engagement in a promotional clip for Saturday Night Live. Coincidentally, 5/22 was the date in which the Manchester arena bombing occurred. ![]() Thank u, next is Ariana Grande’s fifth studio album, which arrives just 5 months and 22 days after the release of her fourth studio album, Sweetener.
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