Ariana Grande Studio Albums Unboxing

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@UnboxKingsInternational 7 ай бұрын

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@UnboxKingsInternational 7 ай бұрын

I'm curious, which Ariana Grande album do you like the most?

@AT_Samantha 7 ай бұрын

Eternal Sunshine

@rosskierna34 7 ай бұрын

Sweetener

@shannontessaro1753 7 ай бұрын

Sweetener and eternal sunshine

@MrJetix-su7qn 7 ай бұрын

thank u next

@silly_once 7 ай бұрын

Positions!!

@Evolinag 7 ай бұрын

The designs of Ariana Grande's CDs always look like you're holding the album in your hands exactly the way they're meant to be. I mean, look at this collection! Like most artists these days that aren't K-Pop, schlager, metal or old fashioned rock, Ariana surely aims for streaming more than physical sales, but while others throw out CDs in digipacks that appear more like cardboard sleeves with a bare minimum of effort (my biggest pet peeve: no tracklist on the back), all of Ariana's CDs look so worth owning with well conceived overall designs, booklets and coming in jewel cases. When "Eternal Sunshine" came out recently, I also finally bought my "Yours Truly" copy along with it, the only one that was still missing from my collection. The editions I have seem to be the same as yours, with the exception of "My Everything", which has a pink background on my version and includes 3 additional tracks ("Bang Bang", "Only 1" and "You Don't Know Me"). Way more than with Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato or Selena Gomez, it's still hard for me to believe that Ariana Grande, the internationally famous singer, is the same person who played Cat Valentine on "Victorious" and "Sam & Cat". I think it is because the other 3 were strong leads in both their roles and their music, while in both of her shows Ariana played the naive, innocent, thoroughly comical best friend, whereas in her music she's a charismatic and seductive powerhouse and a born leading woman. Like with Beyoncé, I also see a switch from vocally incredible performer to auteur with a more personalized view in Ariana's discography (the cut happens between "Dangerous Woman" and "Sweetener"), although the difference is that Ariana never truly abandoned radio ready territory. Which might also be why Ariana was more successful than ever outside of the USA after her switch in the late 2010s while Beyoncé sorta lost her European audience with her self-titled album. Ariana's style and personality just got more defined. And now, let's quickly state my opinion on the albums: Yours Truly (2013): More than on any other album she'd release in the future, you can hear that Mariah Carey is Ariana's biggest idol. And while soundwise, it's closest to Mariah's "Butterfly" album, where she mixed an urban hip hop sound into her grand diva pop, I'd still compare it to Mariah's first 2 albums most of all, because the songs mostly serve as a showcase for Ariana's vocal talent. Her singing is the star here, not as much the actual songwriting craft or memorability of the tracks, and we don't yet get a full fledged vision of what would become one of the biggest stars of her generation. My Everything (2014): Now this is a damn good pure pop album. There are such bangers that it's no wonder that this was her breakthrough in the European market. "One Last Time" is a grand melody with a grand voice, "Love Me Harder" is super smooth and marked the beginning of a very fruitful collaboration string with The Weeknd (a joint album would be the hit), "Problem" is funky as can be, "Bang Bang" has her and her 2 collaborators as modern day Supremes, "Just A Little Bit of Your Heart" is a sheer masterful dramatic ballad, "Break Free" is a brutal early 2010s dance pop song with thick synths and a loud belted sing along chorus, not to mention that outro where it suddenly switches from a 4/4 to a 12/8 beat (next to 4/4 and 3/4 that's the other easily digestible time signature, but it's one no one really talks about - a lot of late 2000s hit songs had that, like "Womanizer", "So What" or "I Kissed A Girl"). You cannot not enjoy this explosion of bubblegum hits. Dangerous Woman (2016): On here, Ariana truly allowed herself to indulge what she already teased on "Love Me Harder". Where just 3 years earlier Miley needed to pull off big scandals and dramatically announce her departure in order to shed her "Hannah Montana" image, Ariana Grande just smoothly transitioned into the sexy seductress and it felt like it's always been this way. Many view this as her best pre-Manchester album, and it offered a big variety of styles (the reggae on "Side To Side", the James Bond style sound of the title track, the dubstep-ish sounds of "Everyday", as well as her first tiptoes into her trademark trap-ish R&B ...) but I'd personally rank it below her second album. Sweetener (2018): Sadly you can't really talk about this album without bringing up its context of being her first output after the Manchester attack, where the area surrounding her concert was the target of a vicious attack that cost several people their lives. It's all over the album even though she never explicitly mentions it, but the prayer-like intro and the fact that the final song adds several seconds of silence (clocking in at 5 minutes and 22 seconds, the attack occurred on May 22), as well as the album's recurring theme of overcoming something bad (darkness, saltiness, tears,...), they all hint at the events. Nonetheless, this album aged like fine wine and still has some of her best material that impresses even listening to it without any clue of the context. And that's ESPECIALLY because Ariana didn't opt to make an overly sad album, but an album specifically about not allowing the sadness to take over. It's a very silky and velvety, very light sounding album, one where Ariana's voice for the first time weightlessly slides over the beats, which will be her trademark from now on. Ironically, it's also less R&B influenced and poppier than her predecessor, despite that being her main style in the future. It's just not outright bubblegum pop like before, but more mature and understated. Highlights includes the title track, "No Tears Left To Cry" (one of two contesters for her best song), "The Light is Coming", "Borderline" and "Get Well Soon", but actually the whole album is a big highlight. Thank U, Next (2019) Much like with "Sweetener", it's hard not to view this album in its tragic context (this time around her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller's suicide), although it still works perfectly on its own. This time around though, the incident finds a mention in the title track. Here we also find Ariana Grande fully indulging into R&B, more specifically the very trap influenced one that was popular in the late 2010s. It's even far more understated than its predecessor, with many melodies that stick but not a single explosive chorus like those of e.g. "No Tears Left To Cry" or "Breathin". Which is why I always wondered how this album was widely perceived as far more positive sounding than "Sweetener", because the two albums sound exactly like the respective cover artworks look like. It nonetheless has a positive outlook lyrically: she allows herself to meet new men, have fun and finds comfort in the fact that she's well off. I just feels more therapeutic and specific to its context than its predecessor, you always feel like it takes her stand in life at that moment into consideration. Highlights are "7 Rings" (the other song that qualifies as her best), "NASA", "Bloodline" and "Bad Idea". For the longest time this was my favorite Ariana album, because it felt both personal and cohesive, and that's what I expected "Sweetener" to be like back in the day. The late 2010s were big on bleak mid-tempo pop with 808 trap beats and echoing slow melody loops, and it might be the best non-rap album to have come out of this trend. With the 2020s showing however that you can make bigger poppier songs that are just as artistic, "Sweetener" retrospectively got a big boost in my opinion on it, and it's hard to pick a favorite between the two. Both are clear 5 star material. Positions (2020): "Positions" might be her critically least appreciated record, and not because it was bad. It's just that after her previous 2 albums gave us so much material to analyze, interpret and put into context, her sixth effort was a straight up continuation of the seductress persona she pursued on "Dangerous Woman", but in the trap flavored R&B style of "Thank U, Next". Music magazines and fans didn't know what to do with such an album anymore, because the late 2010s were full of albums that also served as big statements and events (notably including Ariana's own previous albums), while "Positions" was in its spirit a conventional pop album. But this was just logical. She made 2 albums about moving on, so naturally she would make an album where she actually moved on. Plus the title track is incredibly strong, a standout among an album that's best enjoyed as a continuous listen. Eternal Sunshine (2024): And now we have reached the current day. In the 3 years between "Positions" and "Eternal Sunshine" the entire pop music scene changed. Whereas before many pop stars performed minimalistic crooner songs on trap beats, this style is now more reserved for rappers again, while the big pop stars increasingly indulged in bigger sounding, extrovert music. Danceability, campiness, rose tinted nostalgia, still a bit of hip hop swagger, some even brought back Avril Lavigne style pop punk, the early 2020s are the wild west of pop. "Eternal Sunshine" did a good job at transitioning from Ariana's previous style to a poppy one, mostly because it always moves on a spectrum. There's clear pop songs like the singles "Yes, And?" and "We Can't Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)" (the latter being the best song on the album, like many others I'd also compare it to Robyn's music), and there's songs like "The Boy is Mine" (not the Brandy & Monica song) or the title track which continue the "Thank U, Next" / "Positions" style as is. But the magic lies in how the other songs work as the glue sticking these polar opposite songs together. "Bye" is an uptempo old fashioned R&B song, "Supernatural" is a rather slow synth pop song, "True Story" uses an organic drum track over what sounds like contemporary R&B, etc. The vast majority of tracks moves within this range, and that's why it sounds surprisingly cohesive nonetheless.

@UnboxKingsInternational 7 ай бұрын

The comment GOAT strikes again 🔥 Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us 🙏🏻

@Evolinag 7 ай бұрын

I have to thank you for contributing to keep people invested in physical media with your unboxings! Also these full discography always seem so neat. Having a full collection by an artist you like is so fulfilling. After having had known her songs for some time without having had any of her releases, I also recently ordered all 5 Kacey Musgraves studio albums, but they still need to arrive (yes, I know she has technically 6, but I didn't order the Christmas album, maybe near the end of the year).

@UnboxKingsInternational Ай бұрын

🙏🏻

@chinocaresx 7 ай бұрын

i own sweetener, positions & eternal sunshine on CD

@UnboxKingsInternational 7 ай бұрын

Good (:

@mcoll87 7 ай бұрын

Ich liebe diese Diskographie videos . Es ist sehr schön zu sehen was in diesem Beispiel die gute dame alles schon raus gebracht hat . Super starkes Video!!. Bester Mann!!!

@UnboxKingsInternational 7 ай бұрын

Kommt noch mehr (: Danke Dir Mario!