Ariana Grande, mind your business (★★★★✩), and other albums of the week

Artist and vocalist of coordinates who reach a large audience thanks to his splendid and often seductive voice, as well as for working on compositional architectures that are understandable and shareable by that majority.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
09 March 2024 Saturday 09:33
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Ariana Grande, mind your business (★★★★✩), and other albums of the week

Artist and vocalist of coordinates who reach a large audience thanks to his splendid and often seductive voice, as well as for working on compositional architectures that are understandable and shareable by that majority. Furthermore, in this studio album number seven she has built a kind of sound, instrumental, and environmental architectures that are the perfect background / cushion for her abductor and versatile voice. In theory, the album was recently defined by Grande herself as a “kind of conceptual work,” which was quickly interpreted as a series of compositions about her divorce.

Whether this question is true or not, the truth is that Grande demonstrates in this Eternal Sunshine that her tears have dried up a while ago and she casts a look and a series of reflections on what she understands as an adult life marked by maturity, true humor and a laudable tolerance (although he does not hesitate to put the haters back on the song Yes, and?, which closes the album and which caused quite a stir when he previously released it as a single). All this does not prevent the work from emanating richness, variety and even a certain sonorous and stylistic bombast, although at no point does it reach the change of musical costumes. In this sense, it continues a path begun with the change of decade in which it marries the greatness of film productions (such as the opening theme, Bye), with the R

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The Maresme band, in its fifth album, exudes combative maturity and superlative clarity in its songs-proclamations, and it does so in rock musical coordinates of the moment, that is, with the guitar as a standard bearer and voices that sing without hesitation. This does not mean that it includes more pop forays (Could be friends), something electronic or folk (Heal Hill).

Gratifying confirmation of Mirallas' compositional, interpretive and sonorous ability, from the beginning of Gestos or in her tight collaborations with Mama Dousha or Rita Payés. Riding themes about personal and sentimental insecurities sung and spoken in Catalan and Spanish, she offers romantic pop work, urban kick and some jazz.