This is ranked last because Grande is absent on the track. “Saturn Returns” is an interlude that finds astrologer Diana Garland explaining the concept of a Saturn Return: a phenomenon where the planet Saturn completes its cycle around the sun and reaches the same point it was at during a given person’s birth.
, the persepctive-shifting changes of her Saturn Return and the messiness of memory. Also informed, in part, by the writers’ strike that temporarily upended production on her upcomingarrives at critical juncture for Ariana’s career and person. Now seven albums deep, she’s something of an elder stateswoman of pop music. She also entered her thirties amid the demise of marriage that occured against the backdrop of a global pandemic. Clearly, she’s had a lot going on.
“How can I tell if I’m in the right relationship/ Aren’t you really supposed to know that s–t?/ Feel it in your bones and own that s–t/ I don’t know,” she ponders. Grande immediately places us in the throes of a relationship that’s been crumbling for much longer than she’s realized. It’s that sense of imminent doom that warrants a title as flashy as “End of the World” and a vocal performance that’s equal parts cavalier and utterly distraught.
With a vocal performance that oscillates between an evocative tone reminiscent of her “Still Hurting” cover to staccato delivery that emulates the whimsical background synths, Grande unpacks the pesky desire to wish an ex-lover was worse to you, so that it’s easier for you to move forward and find closure. It’s really heavy, heady stuff, and probably the most personal she’s gotten on wax since 2019’s “Ghostin’,'” but it’s refreshingly honest.
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