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Originally posted by Pitchfork
Grande has never touted herself as a Swiftian friend to all fans, but her slight reserve means that Dangerous Woman, paradoxically, feels safe, which acts in contradiction to the at least 19 times she sings a variation of “danger” or “dangerous” on the record.
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http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...ngerous-woman/
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Originally posted by Pretty Much Amazing
Ariana Grande is not dangerous. She’s not dangerous to such a degree that I’m still wondering whether she was even trying for danger here, or whether she was trying really hard and failed. I’m leaning toward the latter option at the moment, because to be frank, I’m not sure it’s even possible to make this style of singing sound dangerous. Everyone acknowledges Ariana as the Disney star who can Actually Sing, and though to a lot of people “singing” just means projecting loudly and hitting the notes (the more melisma the better), she certainly has tons more grace than Miley Cyrus or Selena Gomez. (As an aside, can we bask for a moment in the fact that we’re still not seeing think-pieces on Selena Gomez yet? I mean, I know it’s coming, but let’s just enjoy the open space while it’s still here.) Good singing’s also about how you inflect the notes; how you shade them, how you offset them against whatever arrangement you’re working with. Ariana’s way of singing is one that, while still carrying a tune (usually), lifts to the high notes very suddenly and stretches them out to fade into a coo. Sometimes it can be really pretty, especially when she harmonizes with herself. And yet she doesn’t seem like a singer who’ll ever have the potential to truly bust out and work a hook as viscerally as, say, “Cool for the Summer”, let alone “…Baby One More Time”. That’s why 1989 was such a great album: for all the chatter about Taylor’s “reinvention” of her sound, there was no pandering there; those of us who’d been following her career beforehand knew that her worldview remained very much her own. It was a change of sound, not necessarily of vision.
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http://prettymuchamazing.com/reviews...angerous-woman
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