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MTV: "Into You saved the summer"
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We’ve spent much of the summer basking in the warm glow of J-Biebs’s “Love Yourself," Drake and Rihanna’s “Too Good,” and Shawn Mendes’s “Treat You Better” — all songs characterized by a strange sense of sorrow. Specifically: sorrow at the hands of male singers who just cannot handle their ****.
We need a break. To reflect is one thing, but to lament all over our last days of nice weather is another completely. With summer’s last gasp, we deserve music that asserts itself, boasts confidence, knows who it is (like we do, after weeks of less work and more sun), and goes after what it wants. This is the job Ariana was born for.
[Into You is p]erfect as a pop song in general, but also when you contrast it to the Sad Boy personas 2016 is otherwise favoring. We get to listen, have fun, or use the song as inspiration to go up to whoever and say, “Hello, I like you” (or not — it’s your call). In the four-ish minutes of “Into You,” we get to pump ourselves up through Ariana’s brazen self-confidence, which serves as a reminder that feeling oneself is not exclusive to Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj collaborations; it can be done at any time, anywhere.
Which — according to every teen movie I’ve ever seen — is what summer’s supposed to be about. If we wanted to sit around feeling sad, we’d follow any guy we see walking with an acoustic guitar and crash the party he’s about to ruin with his rendition of “Wonderwall.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but listen: Some of us just wanna dance.
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