12 nowhere, nobody

Gah this album is so damn short

Ariana genuinely left the best until last for me

In her Imogen Heap bag with the vocoder <3

The swerve of the 2-step garage switch-up floored me on that first listen *.* and is still a great transition

Then the lyrics are so emotional. Just stunning ❤️

nowhere, nobody is a great way to close the album.

I usually want to hear her vocals in all their glory but the vocoder effect is used perfectly and makes it sound haunting.

This is such a sad song considering recent events

Vocoder adds to the atmosphere so much

Thank you @Henessy Lake and @LewisGT for joining! ❤️

Was fun. Love this album so much.

Really enjoyed that. ❤️

Thanks for hosting Jade and thanks for joining Henessy!

Overall, this is my favourite album of hers since thank u, next. I would love an extra 10 minutes though! (deluxe please!!!)

My current ranking:

1. hate that i made you love me

2. petal

3. big feelings

4. like i do

5. stay

6. kiss me

7. never get over me

8. bad thing (bunny hop)

9. nowhere, nobody

10. oh well

11. warning signs (interlude)

12. freak

Did give this album a second listen yesterday although wasn't quite in time with the listening party oops (not that I ever comment along live with these things anyway).

My opinions on the album are mostly not too different from what I thought on first listen, although I'll dump them here as I haven't posted on the forum about the album at all yet - the first and last songs are two of my favourite tracks on the album so a very strong start and finish, happy that 'kiss me' got to be a top 15 hit, not sure how likely it is to get a single push (I expect that if they go with another single at all 'like i do' might be the more obvious choice, and that is also a highlight for me so wouldn't be mad x). I really like both of the singles, 'petal' took a couple of listens but I actually like it more than 'hate that i made you love me' now. 'oh well' and 'bad thing (bunny hop)' are welcome moments of slightly more energetic production on the album, the 'Blinding Lights' formula has tired on me a bit by this point but am still enjoying the latter. 'stay' is solid as well and the interlude is pretty cool for what it is. The other few songs I've not mentioned didn't do much for me - although will say that on first listen I thought 'big feelings' was comfortably the worst song on the album and I take that back now, still one of the weaker songs but has a bit more to it than a couple of others.

The whole album feels very The Weeknd-coded to me which is not a bad thing, it could perhaps do with a little bit more sonic variation but a good number of highlights and no songs that I outright dislike or anything.

Ranking the songs after 2 listens ~

1 kiss me

2 petal

3 nowhere, nobody

4 hate that i made you love me

5 oh well

6 like i do

7 bad thing (bunny hop)

8 stay

9 warning signs (interlude)

10 big feelings

11 freak

12 never get over me