Perspective: Ariana Grande reached the height of her fame by making heavy feel light
Ariana Grande performing on the opening night of her current tour in Albany, N.Y. By Chris Richards Chris Richards Pop music critic Email Bio Follow Pop music critic March 26 at 2:31 PM The hardest part of the Ariana Grande concert comes before the beginning, when everybody’s still out on the sidewalk, stuffing their stuff into little plastic bags. The rules are taped to the door.
And you can still see it without breaking the seal — for instance, during “Thank U, Next,” a confectionary rebound anthem where she lists her exes by name, including the rapper Mac Miller , and the comedian Pete Davidson .
And there’s so much to see, hear and wonder about in this moment — how music fuels celebrity and celebrity fuels music in a dizzying loop; how it remains impossible to locate the moment in a song where a human being ends and a media image begins; how Grande’s iconic ponytail keeps swinging from the crown of her head, marking time like a magic pendulum; how she’s bouncing across the stage in impossibly high stilettos, as if the entirety of the Earth’s surface was just one giant Sealy...
Let’s assume that she learned all about stardom as a Nickelodeon kid actor nearly a decade ago, just as she learned how to sing in the age of iTunes — an era when producers began using digital compression to make every track inside your iPod feel as loud as the next one, and as a result, quiet and loud started to feel like the same thing.
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