The Ari drought is over. Ariana Grande returned tonight with “Sure, And?”—marking her first single in years and the primary style of her long-awaited seventh album.
Shining with dance and home music influences, the music is a transparent, defiant response to the tabloid drama surrounding the singer. However it additionally carries a nonchalant, IDGAF vitality that she’s taking straight to the membership.
Because the web frenzied over particulars about her private life up to now yr, from her divorce from Dalton Gomez to her new relationship with Depraved co-star Ethan Slater, Grande has remained comparatively silent. However tonight, she has responded in the way in which she does greatest: together with her music.
She opens the primary verse with an eyeroll to the rumor mill: “In case you haven’t seen
/ Effectively, everyone’s drained.” And she or he declares within the second verse that she received’t change who she is simply to please different folks: “Now I’m so completed with caring / What you suppose, no I received’t cover / Beneath your individual projections / Or change my most genuine life.”
Although she doesn’t point out particular names, she alludes to the fascination together with her private life within the bridge: “Don’t touch upon my physique, don’t reply / Your enterprise is yours and mine is mine / Why do you care a lot whose ! I trip.”
And she or he explains why she doesn’t waste her time addressing each rumor about her: “My tongue is sacred, I converse upon what I like / Protected, horny, discerning with my time.”
Grande isn’t simply talking for herself. With the inspirational really feel of her choruses, she appears to encourage her listeners to remain unbothered by their very own critics, too. She tells us, “Sure, and? / Say that shit along with your chest….. and / Be your individual fuckin greatest….. good friend / Say that shit along with your chest….. / Preserve shifting like ‘what’s subsequent?’”
That is removed from Grande’s first time addressing her private life in music. Tracks like “7 Rings” and “Thank U, Subsequent” addressed her former engagement and previous breakups. In 2018, she even dropped a music named after Pete Davidson, her then-fiancé. And on a blunter word, she clapped again at public scrutiny with “Shut Up,” the opening monitor of her album Positions.
Grande did briefly touch upon the latest backlash in opposition to her whereas reflecting on her experiences in 2023. “I’ve by no means felt extra pleasure or pleasure or love whereas concurrently feeling so deeply misunderstood by individuals who don’t know me, who piece whispers collectively and make what they need out of me and their assumptions of my life,” she wrote in an Instagram Story in December.
If “Sure, And?” is simply the primary glimpse of Grande’s subsequent venture, there is likely to be much more truth-telling in retailer with the remainder of the album. The pop star sneakily teased the only final week when she was photographed out sporting a sweatshirt with the music title. Days later, she made the official announcement.
Her subsequent album, at present known as AG7, would observe 2021’s Positions, which had singles like “34+35” and “POV” and earned her two Grammy nominations.
Learn the complete lyrics to “Sure, And?” under.
In case you haven’t seen
Effectively, everyone’s drained
And therapeutic from any person
Or one thing we don’t see goodBoy come on put your lipstick on
(Nobody can inform you nothing)
Come on and stroll this manner via the fireplace
(Don’t care what’s on their thoughts)
And if you end up in a darkish state of affairs simply
Flip in your gentle and be like“Sure, and?”
Say that shit along with your chest….. and
Be your individual fuckin greatest….. good friend
Say that shit along with your chest…..
Preserve shifting like “what’s subsequent?”
“Sure, and?”Now I’m so completed with caring
What you suppose, no i received’t cover
Beneath your individual projections
Or change my most genuine lifeBoy come on put your lipstick on
(Nobody can inform you nothing)
Come on and stroll this manner via the fireplace
(Don’t care what’s on their thoughts)
And if you end up in a darkish state of affairs simply
Flip in your gentle and be like“Sure, and?”
Say that shit along with your chest….. and
Be your individual fuckin greatest….. good friend
Say that shit along with your chest…..
Preserve shifting like “what’s subsequent?”
“Sure, and?”My tongue is sacred, I converse upon what I like
Protected, horny, discerning with my time
Your vitality is yours and mine is mine
What’s mine is mineMy face is sitting I don’t want no disguise
Don’t touch upon my physique, don’t reply
Your enterprise is yours and mine is mine
Why do you care a lot whose ! I trip
Why?“Sure, and?”
Say that shit along with your chest….. and
Be your individual fuckin greatest…..good friend
Say that shit along with your chest…..
Preserve shifting like “what’s subsequent?”
“Sure, and?”
Erica Gonzales is the Senior Tradition Editor at ELLE.com, the place she oversees protection on TV, motion pictures, music, books, and extra. She was beforehand an editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. There’s a 75 % likelihood she’s listening to Lorde proper now.
