Sold Date: May 16, 2021
Start Date: May 3, 2021
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Product Identifiers
Record Label    Polydor
GTIN    0602577005954
UPC    0602577005954
eBay Product ID (ePID)    8025070450
    
Product Key Features
Style    Vocal, Pop R&B, Dance Pop, Contemporary R&B
Genre    Pop
Record Size    12"
Duration    LP
Artist    Ariana Grande
Speed    33 RPM
Edition    First Pressing, Limited Edition
Language    English
    
Dimensions
Weight    1.25lbs.
    
Additional Product Features
Featured Refinements    Vinyl Record

    

Product Description
Ariana Grande never explicitly mentions the bombing at her Manchester Arena concert on Sweetener, the first album she's recorded since that May 2017 tragedy, yet its presence is evident throughout the record. It's there on the opening song, an interpolation of the old Four Seasons song "An Angel Cried," its title suggesting sadness. It's there in the hopeful closer "Get Well Soon," whose gospel turns of phrase play like a benediction. It's there in the percolating "The Light Is Coming," which dismisses darkness. Most of all, it's there in the maturity and focus Grande displays on Sweetener, an album that broadens and deepens the R&B inclinations of 2016's Dangerous Woman. Grande may still find some space for silliness -- witness "Pete Davidson," a minute-long ode to her fiancé which winds up with her repeating "happy" as if it were a mantra -- but Sweetener never seems frivolous. The love songs carry weight, there's gravity in the effervescent re-creations of disco; the sparkling EDM surfaces of "Good Night N Go" coalesce into a sweet romanticism, and the big club beats seem elastic, not rigid. Similarly, Grande never pushes these songs too hard. Instead of favoring vocal pyrotechnics, she demonstrates restraint, which isn't merely an indication of stylistic maturation but how her songs resonate without such tricks. Such concentration doesn't simply result in a stronger set of songs, but an album that coheres in a way other Ariana Grande albums don't, which means Sweetener is something of a double triumph: she's come through a tough time stronger and better than before. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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