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Product Identifiers
Record LabelUniversal
UPC4988031294994
eBay Product ID (ePID)5050172718
Product Key Features
Release Year2018
FormatCD
GenreRock
Run Time53 Mins 55 Seconds
ArtistPharrell Williams, Missy Elliott, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj
Release TitleSweetener
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
EngineerEazy $ign
ReviewsRolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's a refreshing, cohesive package....The title track is a bouncy, almost wickedly catchy highlight, while the luxurious 'R.E.M.' is a soulful, sexy romp..." Spin - "15 songs that, together, form an indomitable wall of love, lust, and wistfulness perpetually frozen in the intoxicating, fun period of a new relationship." Entertainment Weekly - "Ariana Grande was looking for a new challenge. She found it in SWEETENER, her most complex project to date." NME (Magazine) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] stunning, sometimes left-field body of work....Dreamy, defiant and driven by hope."
Additional informationAudio Mixers: Ilya Salmanzadeh ; Max Martin ; Phil Tan; Serban Ghenea. Ariana Grande never explicitly mentions the bombing at her Manchester Arena concert on Sweetener, the first album she's recorded since that May 2017 tragedy, yet its presence is evident throughout the record. It's there on the opening song, an interpolation of the old Four Seasons song "An Angel Cried," its title suggesting sadness. It's there in the hopeful closer "Get Well Soon," whose gospel turns of phrase play like a benediction. It's there in the percolating "The Light Is Coming," which dismisses darkness. Most of all, it's there in the maturity and focus Grande displays on Sweetener, an album that broadens and deepens the R&B inclinations of 2016's Dangerous Woman. Grande may still find some space for silliness -- witness "Pete Davidson," a minute-long ode to her fiancé which winds up with her repeating "happy" as if it were a mantra -- but Sweetener never seems frivolous. The love songs carry weight, there's gravity in the effervescent re-creations of disco; the sparkling EDM surfaces of "Good Night N Go" coalesce into a sweet romanticism, and the big club beats seem elastic, not rigid. Similarly, Grande never pushes these songs too hard. Instead of favoring vocal pyrotechnics, she demonstrates restraint, which isn't merely an indication of stylistic maturation but how her songs resonate without such tricks. Such concentration doesn't simply result in a stronger set of songs, but an album that coheres in a way other Ariana Grande albums don't, which means Sweetener is something of a double triumph: she's come through a tough time stronger and better than before. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Number of Audio ChannelsStereo
