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Vocals + pen, who's doing it like her

I can't believe we still have over 5 weeks until the album I'm begging for new teasers, but at the same time, her giving us nothing is making me even more curious about the album

Brighter Days Ahead is involved with so many good causes. Amazing to see

The hate boner social media has for her is so lame. People always pick a new female artist to pile on.

Ever since people were throwing out "dreampop" descriptions, I've kind of been expecting a The Sundays / Mazzy Star sound on the album. Like it's possible HTIMYLM is the most radio ready song of the bunch. But then it's also possible Max and Ilya produced the whole thing, so would they go for that far of a departure from ES? It's hard to say because I think ES album tracks being somewhere between TUN and DW sonically was a very intentional return to form for Ariana during a period where she was more focused on acting, not expecting to put out an album, and getting a lot of hate for having changed. And now she might be ready to go an entirely different direction, but that would require pushing not just herself outside her comfort zone but the people she works with.

She should release another song early July to sustain interest. The wait is just way too long until album release. All she has is the tour.

Oh trust, they'll complain the minute they don't hear something super upbeat and instant. There is a loud, annoying subset of her fans that have refused to evolve with her If she simply tried to remake Dangerous Woman again and again, the same people would complain that the new songs don't compare to the originals, that all her songs sound the same, and that she never changes up her formula. And then there are the people expecting her to go back to TUN bad ***** looks and trap pop despite the fact she's about to be 33 now, like of course a lot has changed in 7 years. The TUN album was literally closer to the release of The Way than it is to today, to put that in perspective. I'm reminded of how many people were disappointed when off the table didn't sound like LMH. When it's like, LMH is a perfect pop song and duh they were never going to be able to recapture that magic. She was right to do a 180 with the next Abel collab, and now I appreciate both songs as some of her best. This album is shaping up to be exactly what I want from her. Truly great artists who last take big swings outside their comfort zones. Even if she ends up disappointing people - or even myself - I'll appreciate the fact that she tried to experiment. You really never know what you're going to get from her, and that's what keeps stanning her exciting. Her last few singles from 34+35 to pov to yes, and? to wcbf to htimylm have been completely different.

bunny hop appears a lot in the HTIMYLM video for whatever that's worth

Wait so the whole thing is out there already? And we're sure it's not AI?

This sounds like exactly what I was looking for from her then I can't wait to see more visuals for this era

I mean, forget Olivia, it's probably gonna fall below Billie Jean and Beauty and a Beat Hopefully it can stay above 3M until album release

Waittt someone pointed out that the track list could be giving picking petals off a flower like "he loves me, he loves me not" going back and forth between love songs and sad songs

I can't even imagine what bad thing (bunny hop) is gonna sound like

She better not! I need more things to look forward to until album release

I feel like this album is gonna sound so pretty. That coupled with vocal highlights and her most introspective songwriting.