celeb news Pitchfork calls Ariana "Pop's Teflon princess" in new single review

[GentleDance]

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/ariana-grande-yes-and/

 

Pop’s Teflon princess is improvising her way out of a scandalous press cycle.

 

 

January is where major films go to flop. Pop stars are a different story: After years dominated by Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” (January 12), The Weeknd’s Dawn FM (January 7), and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” (January 8), it feels like anything could happen this week. Nobody needs the narrative shift more than Ariana Grande, whose on-set romance with Wicked costar Ethan Slater is the headline that just keeps headlining. But she theater-catchphrased herself out of a sticky tabloid situation once before, so why not go for an encore? The chipper new single “yes, and?” cribs the golden rule of improv for a lightweight dance shuffle with a few barbed words for the critics, culminating in the line, “Why do you care so much whose ! I ride?” The critics, depicted in the video as a bunch of frumpy whiners, are all predictably won over by the end. Close your eyes, tap your heels together three times, and repeat Madonna’s ad-lib from the top of “Vogue”: What are you lookin’ at?

[fridayteenage]

Princess of teflon

Edited January 12 by fridayteenage

[Blue Monday]

The way they called this a review but didn't even really critically engage with the song itself 

[jqnetto]

spot on

[Zefierce]

Teflon?

 

Did they go out of their way to dig through a list of adjectives to find that word?

[Archetype]

That's not a song review, more like a "she put out a song"

[Oxygen]

This reads as a news article rather than a review  

[jqnetto]

2 minutes ago, Zefierce said:

Teflon?

 

Did they go out of their way to dig through a list of adjectives to find that word?

it is a slang for being able to avoid criticism and keep a good reputation, even after doing something wrong

[Dula Peep]

This generations Paula Abdul  

[KatyPrismSpirit]

the fact someone went to college and studied journalism to end up writing this garbage

[Daddy]

4 minutes ago, Zefierce said:

Teflon?

 

Did they go out of their way to dig through a list of adjectives to find that word?

Everybody knows what Teflon is. It's not an adjective tho. 

[GentleDance]

6 minutes ago, Zefierce said:

Teflon?

 

Did they go out of their way to dig through a list of adjectives to find that word?

Meaning she gets away with way too much 

[Aaron]

This is so annoyingly written  

[channel orange]

4 minutes ago, Daddy said:

Everybody knows what Teflon is. It's not an adjective tho. 

except it is (as others have already mentioned)

• denoting someone whose reputation remains undamaged in spite of scandal or misjudgement.

  modifier noun: Teflon

  "acquittal earned him the nickname ‘the Teflon Don’"

[James_Dean]

Okay but what did they think of the song?

[NEX]

26 minutes ago, GentleDance said:

is the headline that just keeps headlining

What kind of writing is this

[Digitalism]

A non review

[Cain]

1 minute ago, =NEX= said:

What kind of writing is this

It’s a nod to popular internet usage of ‘the face is facing’ etc, signifying they’re in the know with that terminology, the thing that music journalism needs to do to cater to their audience made out of specifically that age group 

 

Some of you are so out of it

[Dolce Vita]

i've noticed the majority of p4k reviews talk in-depth about the artist's lore + the cultural landscape of the song's release instead of actually reviewing the song in question 

[Venice B]

Teflon as in those teflon pans that won't let things stick in them? Are they trying to say the song won't stick?  

[M.R.]

They can’t even drag the song properly because Condé Nast owns them.

[Daddy]

26 minutes ago, channel orange said:

(as others have already mentioned)

Yeah, the meaning is self-explanatory, just didn't know they made an adjective out of the name/noun. 

[shookspeare]

Does anyone even read p4k reviews  they literally never say anything. just look at the number or if it got BNT/BNM and go

[NEX]

25 minutes ago, Cain said:

It’s a nod to popular internet usage of ‘the face is facing’ etc, signifying they’re in the know with that terminology, the thing that music journalism needs to do to cater to their audience made out of specifically that age group 

 

Some of you are so out of it

I'm familiar with the lingo and use it occasionally, but seeing it in an article of an esteemed publication is never not gonna look bizzarre. 

[Redstreak]

23 minutes ago, Venice B said:

Teflon as in those teflon pans that won't let things stick in them? Are they trying to say the song won't stick?  

They’re saying negative rumors or negative headlines don’t stick to her