I just hope she’s OK. :heart:

 

I feel worried for her on a personal level. She’s had so much constant S#!T lately like one thing after another :(

Back to the top 10 this week in the UK!

I think this has become my favourite album of hers now.

 

My taste with a few artists on here seems I’m in the minority and my fave is the majority’s least fave.

 

A 10/10 album and aside from the light is coming I love every track.

 

 

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Up ten places this week! #21.

Ariana's just got her first Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album for this :wub:

amazing :wub:

 

i mean, regardless of what you think of sweetener, her vocals were outstanding on this record.

YESSSSS!!

 

So pleased for her :heart:

 

 

I'm very pleased for her! I still think it's quite petty that she refused to appear/perform what the Academy requested her to perform but it's about time that she's finally rewarded for her work on her fourth album! Here's to thank u, next sweeping up at the 2020 Grammys!

i get the feeling she’s quite sad she’s not there now she’s won..

i get the feeling she’s quite sad she’s not there now she’s won..

It's a classic example of cutting one's nose off to spite one's own face. I'm sure she'll get over it

I'm very pleased for her! I still think it's quite petty that she refused to appear/perform what the Academy requested her to perform but it's about time that she's finally rewarded for her work on her fourth album! Here's to thank u, next sweeping up at the 2020 Grammys!

 

She may well win the same award two years in a row and hopefully perform next year too :lol:

I'm more Team Ariana on this one... I think she's more than earned the right by now to perform the songs she wants to perform, over what she's told to perform. Taking a stand and not letting herself be stifled is something I'd commend, I don't think that's petty behaviour.

 

I'm not sure why Grammy's would have put their foot down anyway. 7 Rings is the #1 song from the #1 artist in the world, why wouldn't they have wanted that to be performed? It doesn't seem like they were so difficult with artists in the past, I mean, did they genuinely request Nicki Minaj to perform Roman Holiday, of all songs? :drama:

 

Glad she won a Grammy despite her no-show, very deserving. :wub:

I do kind of get the feeling that she doesn't actually really like this album much :(

I do kind of get the feeling that she doesn't actually really like this album much :(

 

I can't blame her for that if it's true.

I don't get that feeling, but maybe I've missed something?

 

All I've noticed is her being a bit "lol rly :')" when the public gravitated strongly towards breathin; she made it evident that it was far from being her favourite song on the album. She may understandably be iffy towards Everytime given its subject matter. Otherwise, I think there's still plenty she likes from the album? The tour is called the Sweetener tour, so I'd be surprised if there's not a healthy representation of the album in the set list.

I guess, but I've just noticed/felt like she's brushed it under the carpet - I agree her album isn't the strongest but the singles were so good. I'm happy for her if she's releasing more music that she likes, I just can't and never will quite understand why NTLC and GIAW aren't getting the massive success 7 rings and Thank U, Next did. I like them all and I'm happy for her, it just has always felt odd to me!

I don’t see why the biggest artist in the world right now shouldn’t be able to perform exactly what she wants to imo. I don’t think she needed to draw as much attention to it as she did though, like she wanted to make herself the focus of the headlines without turning up?

 

I don't get that feeling, but maybe I've missed something?

 

All I've noticed is her being a bit "lol rly :')" when the public gravitated strongly towards breathin; she made it evident that it was far from being her favourite song on the album. She may understandably be iffy towards Everytime given its subject matter. Otherwise, I think there's still plenty she likes from the album? The tour is called the Sweetener tour, so I'd be surprised if there's not a healthy representation of the album in the set list.

I can’t argue with her on that aha, I’d put Breathin’ only above Get Well Soon, Blazed and TLIC on the album ;o Never got the fuss for it 😊

 

I see why you think that but I really hope she hasn’t, it’s her best album for me :(

I don't think she dislikes the album at all - quite the opposite. It seems it due to how fast she's moved onto another album, but I think that is more about her mentality changing (wanting to release music in quick succession) rather than disliking Sweetener. She was probably more annoyed at the response to the Pharrell tracks than anything.

Edited February 11, 20196 yr by blacksquare

I kinda thought the Pete split influenced the quick move too.

 

R.E.M. was obviously about Pete at the time it was recorded and it was mentioned loads before the album release as being her favourite. Tracks like goodnight n go, blazed and the title track i took to be about him too and obviously the interlude literally named after him. So already that’s like 1/3 of the album. I don’t think she fell out of love with the album but she felt she could no longer connect possibly at that point in her life.

 

If Ariana had her way we may well have had a very different campaign but the single choices for sweetener were completely right.

 

I think Ariana thought R.E.M. and get well soon would’ve been a lot better recieved than what they were and I don’t think she expected the backlash for Pharrell too. It’s a weird one as it’s the album that made many of my friends fans of her who weren’t big fans before hand but generally her fans what she had from day one seem to think it’s her worst album.

 

I love sweetener though for me it’s her best album since her debut.

Edited June 22, 20196 yr by Jordan Lee