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Ariana Grande's New Album Eternal Sunshine Boasts 'house Music And A Little R'n'B'... After The Success Of Her Lead Single Yes, And?
Ariana Grande's new album Eternal Sunshine boasts 'house music and a little R'n'B'.
The 30-year-old star's label boss has teased what fans can expect from the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2020's Positions.
Republic Records co-president Wendy Goldstein said in new behind-the-scenes video shared by Ariana on Instagram this week: 'Between you and Max [Martin] it'll just be perfect. The vocals are great.
'The changes, the tempos, the house music of it, then there's a little R'n'B. It's you. It's like an elevated version of all the albums that came before like 'Sweetener' meets kind of a Thank U, Next.'
So far, fans have heard the lead single 'Yes, And?' - which subsequently got a Mariah Carey-featuring remix – and they won't hear anymore singles before the record drops next month.
Ariana Grande 's new album Eternal Sunshine boasts 'house music and a little R'n'B'
The 30-year-old star's label boss has teased what fans can expect from the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2020's Positions' Republic Records co-president Wendy Goldstein said in new behind-the-scenes video shared by Ariana on Instagram this week: 'Between you and Max [Martin] it'll just be perfect. The vocals are great'
The Grammy winner recently insisted she wants her supporters to listen to this LP in full when it's released on March 8, rather than being drip-fed the material bit by bit.
She wrote on her Instagram Story earlier this month: 'We are a little over a month away from 'Eternal Sunshine' and I don't think it's possible to articulate how grateful I am for your love, support and excitement!
'I wanted to say…as hard as it is to resist the urge to share another song or single with you all asap, I would really love for you to experience the album in full this time.
'There will of course be more singles off of this project once it is out (and we may have a little surprise or two up our sleeves to hold you over until then so don't you worry) but waiting a little longer for you to be able to listen fully through first really is my ideal way for you all to experience this body of work.'
Ariana thanked fans for trusting her 'vision and plan' for hotly anticipated album.
She continued: 'You have waited so long for new music from me and I am so grateful for your patience!
'I look forward to savoring every second of this new era with you all and I sincerely cannot wait for it to be yours!
'It's going to be (and already is) so special. I am so excited for all that is to come. More than ever.
'Love you so so so!!! (sic)'
Ariana herself described the record as 'a concept album', noting that a lot of the songs are 'really vulnerable'.
'The changes, the tempos, the house music of it, then there's a little R'n'B. It's you. It's like an elevated version of all the albums that came before like 'Sweetener' meets kind of a Thank U, Next'
So far, fans have heard the lead single 'Yes, And?' - which subsequently got a Mariah Carey-featuring remix – and they won't hear anymore singles before the record drops next month
In a previous post on Instagram, she explained how she invited family, friends and members of her team at Republic Records to listen to an advanced preview of the collection.
She said: 'I'm nervous, but I wanted to share this with you because it's kind of a concept album.
'It's all different, heightened pieces of the same story [and] of the same experience. I'm weirdly emotional but… this is what's going on.
'Some of them are really vulnerable, some of them are [me] playing the part that people expect me to be sometimes and having fun with that.'
The 5 Best Songs Of The Week
Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week's picks below and on Stereogum's Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)
05Cusp - "Window"
Chicago's Cusp was on our list of best new bands of 2023 following the release of their debut album You Can Do It All, a whimsical, engaging shoegaze supernova. Their new song "Window" is a pleasant taste of their forthcoming EP Thanks So Much, and it's an anxious indie rock earworm that tries to calm itself with affirmations that blur into frustrations: "I'm grateful, I'm grateful/ I hate being so hateful." Toward the end, the track fades into a piano interlude before ending with a tame instrumental and Jen Bender still stating, "I'm grateful," though this time it sounds like she really means it. —Danielle
04Hatis Noit - "Jomon (Preservation Rework)" (Feat. Armand Hammer)
Japanese vocal artist Hatis Noit pulls from different global traditions, and she makes vast, sweeping music — the kind of thing that makes you feel like you're flying over snow-capped mountains while the sky burns. She released the otherworldly "Jomon" two years ago, but I was unfamiliar with her game until this week. That's because the New York rap producer Preservation, a master of avant-bap lurch, remixed the track and got Armand Hammer to spit nerve-jangled apocalyptic imagery over it. Now, an epic feels even more epic. —Tom
03Microwave - "Bored Of Being Sad"
Last year, Atlanta pop-punk crew Microwave released "Ferrari," "Straw Hat," and "Circling The Drain." Their new song "Bored Of Being Sad" comes with the announcement of their next album Let's Start Degeneracy, and it's the loudest single so far. It kicks off with a burst of bright guitars, as Nathan Hardy sings about being jaded of the romanticization of misery, not without taking responsibility himself: "Shit's really not so bad/ I created this hell/ I have no one to blame but myself." This attitude is also what sets Microwave apart from their peers. They're too restless to wallow, and surely Let's Start Degeneracy will be full of more fun mayhem. —Danielle
02Bat For Lashes - "The Dream Of Delphi"
We don't have oracles anymore. That's too bad. We could probably use their help. In Greek mythology, high priestess Pythia was a mysterious force who had access to the vast, mysterious forces controlling the fate of mortals. She would tell kings and heroes things that they needed to know, though her prophecies had a way of undoing those kings and heroes. On her first song since becoming a mother, Nathasha Khan meditates on dreams and visions while conjuring her own, her voice floating beatifically over drones and tingles and swooshes. Near the end of the track, when the Björk-style space-dance drums kick in, Khan's voice disappears, as if she's entering a shamanic trance of her own. Maybe we still have oracles after all. —Tom
01Vampire Weekend - "Capricorn"
Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten. For those that weren't vibing with Father Of The Bride (shame on you), Vampire Weekend are ready to give you want you wanted. "Capricorn" and its counterpart "Gen X Cops" sound like the band's discography collapsing in on itself. It's all so familiar, but something's off. It's dense and dirty. The production is willfully difficult, all those layers that Ezra Koenig and his go-to Ariel Rechtshaid built up are a muddle. It's like going to a college reunion and everyone's worse off. Those hallowed halls are dimmer. There's mud on the parquet floors. Fuck, is the mansard roof leaking?!
It's all intentional. Of course it is. Vampire Weekend have long been concerned with the slow march of history, the inexorable churn of time, that low click of a ticking clock. What's old will become new again, and what's new is already dying. "Capricorn," named after the astrological sign that straddles the old year and the new, is filled with sonic allusions to past glories. Koenig sings about "sifting through centuries for moments of your own," and you get the sense that he's been engaging with his own band's mythology, turning it on its head and providing you a haunted-house version of what you thought you needed. And then that sound cuts through — you know the one, mangled and yawning and cacophonous. It's all too much. Welcome back. —James
Learn The Rich History Of Black Folk Music At Free Old Town School Event
LINCOLN SQUARE — The Old Town School of Folk Music will celebrate Black musical heritage and its influence on contemporary folk music during a weekend symposium.
Black History, Folk Futures is 10 a.M.-7 p.M. Saturday at the school, 4545 N. Lincoln Ave.
Some of Saturday's sessions will include discussions on the historical roots of hip-hop culture, Gospel music within Black spirituality and the cultural shifts and musical movements that helped create house music.
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The aim of Saturday's event is to examine Black musical heritage as a living history that evolves across time and space as it influences other genres or creates ones, said Jada-Amina Harvey, Old Town's community ventures program coordinator.
"We really want to push the discourse around the intersections of Black history and folk music traditions," Jada-Amina said.
The Black musical canon is born out of a desire for Black liberation starting in the United State's antebellum period to the present day. That is why there's a through line from hymns and negro spirituals to work songs and Sly and the Family Stone, the Civil Rights Movement and Queen Latifah, Jada-Amina said.
"It does serve as this repository of history, memory, tradition and innovation. Think about how Black folks take Christianity; it was not widely practiced in West Africa. But we took what we were forced to practice and infused our own histories, memories and traditions to create what is now known as Black Gospel music," Jada-Amina said.
Saturday's event will also include activities such as an improvisational jam session led by artists Eva Supreme, Jaden Esi, Julian Otis and Charlie Greene. Attendees can learn about African American hymns as they perform one.
"This is the alchemy of invention, and it's always a continuum," Jada-Amina said. "Watch a documentary on the Beatles or the Rolling Stones and they're going to tell you their 'cheat code' was they were trying to sound like Mahalia Jackson."
The symposium is building off of work Old Town School has already been doing on the West and South sides.
In September, the school's community wellness initiative, Community Ventures, organized Shrines of Brass, a New Orleans-inspired second line procession in Austin to honor the lives of Black people.
"Arif Smith is Old Town's music moves manager and he thought up this remarkable idea of using some of the practices and traditions coming out of New Orleans for that September event," Jada-Amina said.
That event was among programs the school runs on the South and West sides focusing on art from Black and Latinx diasporas, Jada-Amina said.
Saturday's inaugural symposium continues that work and came about after discussion between Jada-Amina and Kate Walsh, Old Town's school partnerships manager.
"Kate and I had a series of conversations and realized we'd never seen anything like this at Old Town," Jada-Amina said. "Really focusing on reclamation and thinking of history and historical context as a way to sort of trace our shared past and reimagine and continue to think about our shared future."
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