A Grand(e) Album With Sweet Beats

Bring some of that sugar rush into your music playlist! Inspired to uplift the spirits of her fans in the aftermath of the 2017 Manchester attack, Ariana Grande dropped her “Sweetener” album in mid-August. The pop-disco track “no tears left to cry” alone accomplished this feat. It won international acclaim, hitting top charts in countries across several continents. Nationally, it was an album that enabled Grande to win numerous awards at the MTV VMAs that commemorated her accomplishments this year.

Though Grande is most commonly associated with the pop genre, throughout the course of her discography she has demonstrated a willingness to fuse genres in her songs. The trap music in “God is a woman” made it her album’s experimental piece. Despite temporary backlash over the suggested blasphemy of the track, it’s a song that bears the orgastic, sexually empowering vibes from Grande’s previous album, “Dangerous Woman.”

Regardless of whether “Sweetener” is to your musical taste, it’s undeniably one of the most emotionally charged albums of 2018, if not of Grande’s career to boot. These passionate heights, coupled with an ethereal musical atmosphere induced by the timbre of Grande’s voice, are more than enough to have fans wondering what she’ll procure from inspiration next.