Post-divorce, the American pop star returns with a sumptuous collection that has just the right amount of bite
, a soft-focus celebration of her future husband, Dalton Gomez. On this loosely conceptual follow-up she unpicks that relationship’s speedy demise, while also contending with new love and the tabloid fallout from it. Lead singleneatly sums up Grande’s attitude towards rumours and parasocial probing: “Your business is yours and mine is mine/ Why do you care so much whose dick I ride?”
The line is delivered with such restraint that its impact goes unnoticed at first. It’s a technique that Grande, who possesses a voice that could strip wallpaper, uses throughout, be it alluding to cheating on the fluttering title track, or asking for clemency on the excellent, Robyn-esque We Can’t Be Friends .
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