| ***** Nur wenige Monate nachdem ihr viertes Album "Sweetener" veröffentlicht wurde, veröffentlichte Ariana Grande letzte Nacht mit "Thank U, Next" bereits eine komplett neue Single. Das gleichnamige fünfte Album soll auch noch dieses Jahr folgen. Ein schöner R&B-Song, weniger kommerziell wie "No Tears" oder "God Is A Woman", was wohl auch der Grund ist dass ich "Thank U, Next" als ihre schwächste Single des Jahres wahrnehme. Trotzdem eben eine schöne Nummer, die 5* ist gerechtfertigt. |
| ****** Al vlug na de release van Sweetener komt Grande met de eerste single van haar vijfde studioalbum. Thank U, Next is een vrolijke break-upsong waarin Grande haar exen bedankt, voor wat ze haar hebben geleerd, in plaats van met ze afrekent. Zeker na een paar keer luisteren een erg leuk plaatje. 6* |
| **** Zeker niet verkeerd. |
| **** ▒ Opgewekt plaatje van de 25 jarige Amerikaanse actrice, songschrijfster en zangeres: "Ariana Grande-Butera" !!! Dik oké ☺!!! |
| **** Vrolijke boodschap richting de ex van Ariana Grande dat goed genoeg klinkt om richting hitlijsten te gaan bewegen. |
| **** Nichts Besonderes. |
| *** Diese neue Single von Ariana Grande empfinde ich als sehr enttäuschend. Ziemlich unspektakuläres Gesäusel, das bis auf ihre Stimme eigentlich so überhaupt nichts Nennenswertes zu bieten hat. Ist mir persönlich zu wenig und eigentlich eher Album-Füllmaterial. |
| * Her worst song. Last edited: 12/11/2018 17:30 |
| **** Sounds good and interesting. Her third UK#1. UK#1 for 6 weeks and Ireland#1. Last edited: 15/12/2018 18:07 |
| **** 3 Monate nach dem letzten Studioalbum bereits das neue anzukündigen, nenne ich mal produktiv. Besonders intensiv habe ich mich mit "Sweetener" nicht beschäftigt; außer der starken Lead-Single und dem Titeltrack blieb mir nicht viel in Erinnerung. Auch Ariana scheint sich mit dieser Ära nicht lange aufhalten zu wollen, kann bei mir die Neugier auf die nächste aber kaum entfachen: Auch mir plätschert "Thank U, Next" zu höhepunktarm vor sich hin. Meine bescheidene Meinung kann Ariana aber egal sein, wenn sie auf tadellose Chartsplatzierungen in den wichtigsten Musikmärkten blicken kann.<br><br>edit: Muss mich korrigieren, das ist längst nicht so übel wie anfangs gedacht. 4+ Last edited: 17/02/2019 13:25 |
| *** <br>Ja, diese müde Nummer ist tatsächlich die neue #1 in UK!? |
| ***** Un nouveau single (déjà) assez sympa. Les hommages dans le clip sont géniaux ! Last edited: 19/01/2019 14:55 |
| ****** Nach Sweetener einer ihree besten Songs. Kann kaum das angekündigte Album abwarten |
| **** gut |
| **** Da hatte sie in letzter Zeit wirklich bessere Songs. Insgesamt geht das aber schon in Ordnung. |
| **** Really neat production on this one, not to mention that of course it's super catchy. 4.5 Last edited: 18/02/2019 07:08 |
| **** ...der "next one" für und von Arianchen - gesäuselt und geklatscht wie eh und je - Langeweile stellt sich ein...+3.5 |
| *** geht für mich leicht Richtung 'black music'<br>ich hebe mal den schnitt |
| ****** Oh, ich liebe sie. Meine Tochter, die auch voll auf sie steht, mag diesen Song aber nicht.<br><br>30.09.19: Jetzt, nachdem ich sie am Samstag in Hamburg gesehen und gehört habe, ist die Höchstwertung fällig, 5 => 6. Last edited: 30/09/2019 21:01 |
| **** Leuk nummer. Misschien wel haar eerste nummer één hit in Nederland? |
| *** Ich mag sie auch, aber dem Song kann ich wenig bis nichts abgewinnen. |
| *** Nein danke, sehr fad. |
| **** ! Last edited: 17/02/2022 07:08 |
| ** Oh, dann darf ich tatsächlich die erste 2 vergeben? Ein Rückfall in längst vergangen und vergessen geglaubte Zeiten des Weichspüler-RnB. Ein Song, mehr gehaucht denn gesungen, melodietechnisch langweilig. Knapp keine 3. |
| * Terrible song from an overrated and unlikeable act. |
| *** DAS ist ihre erste #1 in den USA, in CDN, AUS und NZL? So einfach geht's, klingt aber eher nach schwachem Janet Jackson Verschnitt, dabei hätte Ariana die klar bessere Stimme. |
| * One of the worst & cringiest songs of all time. Just when you think she can't get any worse, she proves you wrong. |
| *** Keiner der schlimmsten Auswüchse in den gegenwärtigen Charts, aber doch eine langweilige und repetitive Sache. Knappe 3*. |
| ****** Prachtig nummer |
| * Vreselijk overschatte zangeres.<br>Niet om aan te horen dat gepiep.<br>Thank you next en dat tig keer achter elkaar.<br>Bijna niet te verstaan ook.<br>Leuk voor meisjes van 4 jaar oud.<br> Last edited: 07/01/2019 20:02 |
| **** Keine schlechte Nummer - nur so ganz umhauen,tut's mich jetzt auch wieder nicht. |
| *** Na da waren wohl No Tears und God Is A Woman,ja wohl bedeutend besser als der hier besagte Titel.Ganz okay,nichts besonderes.Schön anzuhören,ein kleiner feiner Ohrwurm.Zum Glück läuft sie bisher,keinen schlechten Radiotrends hinterher.Dass muss man ihr hoch anrechnen. |
| ** Eine sehr Müde und Schwache Nummer, eher hingeplätschert. Der Refrain geht extrem auf die Nerven. Ich mag die "Künstlerin" überhaupt nicht...<br>Ernsthaft: Woman of the Year???<br><br>Bewertung: 2+ ---> abgerundet auf 2* Last edited: 09/04/2021 22:54 |
| * Ist wohl der schlechteste Song der dieses Jahr rausgekommen ist. Der Text ist so wie jeder andere von Ihr bzw. von anderen Künstlern heutzutage |
| ** schmerzt ab der 1. sekunde. konnte den song nicht komplett durchhören. <br>genau so schlecht und überflüssig wie damals mariah carey zu ihren übelsten zeiten |
| **** ganz nettes Liedchen. |
| ** The video is entertaining. The songwriting is poor and the production is basic. |
| **** Not as good as any of the singles from Sweetener, which makes it all the more bewildering that this is such a massive hit. I do like the lyrics though. |
| **** Its actually good. Should've been on the Sweetener album though to my opinion. But I like the lyrics and show how many ex boyfriends she has ever been and not to mention her parents support. Another great song from Ariana Grande. |
| **** Etas seicht, doch für eine aufgerundete vier reicht es. |
| **** I was disappointed at first but that hook is very effective and I love how simple it is. Nice lyrics too. 4.3 |
| **** Ich könnte schreiben "danke, nächstes Lied", aber so schlecht ist das nicht. Schöner Melodiebogen, angenehme Stimme. Rundherum zu nett für eine schlechte Wertung. das Zuckerpüppchen hört man immer wieder mal aus dem Rundfunk trällern. |
| ***** With every passing year, it feels like pop music as it is thought of, is crossing new milestones in terms of how popular music as the people are experiencing it is overlapping less and less with it. The charts still seem to function, but as if it's held together by duct tape. The sense of urgency that the top of the charts used to hold as a product of being what's hot right now, has started to evaporate as it feels like every song has to go through a 6 month vetting process before it's deemed okay to be heard by enough people to bring it to its highest chart peak. Radio in particular often feels like it needs to work with everything planned 3 months in advance. In all honesty, a lot of this has been the case for decades. It just strikes as particularly faling apart as we now have national charts decided by YouTube & Spotify plays, often with no direct financial interaction which results in a popular landscape which is far more difficult to regulate. It makes things interesting that popular hits feel as though they can be plucked from complete obscurity rather than being selected from the small handful that are presented to the public by the powers that be. What's also happened is that when songs do connect, they really stick. It is completely normal to see a plethora of hits that spend 6, maybe 9 months in the spotlight.<br><br>All this comes at a cost, which is what I was getting at with my opening sentence. I suppose you could say that pop hasn't gone anywhere apart from having to vacate increasingly more seats at the table from less adjacent genres, while pop radio is diving all over the place to latch onto anything that connects with their audience. In that sense I think you could re-phrase the sentence to be more about pop stars as they've been known for at least the last 50 years. When you look at the charts of old, there's a certain level of expectation in that the big names of the time are always there without fail. Especially so in the UK where it feels like every major artist is either putting out a career/era defining single, or whatever else they put out is still at least checking off their streak for top 10, top 20, top 40 peaks. These streaks would often last long after what you would naturally think is the expiration on an artist's hitmaking career, but what I often see is comments from people who were young at the time and were confused at why certain dinosaur acts were always charting so high. Not to say that there can't be a cross-generational appeal (just look at "The Horses") but predominantly these careers were being kept alive by the same fanbase decade after decade, and the less financed youth weren't able to really overpower it.<br><br>What keeps happening over and over again is that major stars of the past release new music, and it sells really well on iTunes, but tanks quickly because there's no audience big enough streaming it, which takes the lion share of chart points nowadays, even if Billboard & the OCC repeatedly try to quell it by adjusting the formula. You see fans of such artists in disarray that the still reputable new material from their favourite artists is falling far short of past performance, and simultaneously baffled that people are instead latching onto a rap artist whose name is 5 steps away from the end for them https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/1090112445882880000<br><br>It's all because the John Mayer - "Waiting On The World To Change" process has been accelerated dramatically for the simple reason that monetisation is favouring a younger, less bourgeois audience with less inclination towards perceived 'value' of music because they're no longer putting their taste at price point. People who buy music, are more likely to do so with the intent that they're going to keep listening to it for a long time to come, whereas if you just stream it, there is zero investment in it after the time you spend hearing it for the last time. So this perceived value that has been indoctrinated in audiences forever has had its spell broken, and chaos ensues.<br><br>I think there's also an element of artists managing to be popular nowadays via a certain relatable tilt. That's been around forever of course but it was always through the filter of eloquent lyricism to capture a mood. The only thing that held it back was the very apparent barrier where the biggest stars felt like literal...stars in comparison to us feeble ants. Like they were groomed for presentation, and after they've done their song, they'll go back to their ivory towers and celebrate through hedonism. Not to say that actually is the case, but there certainly always felt like there was an urge to act like everything was all together, even when it wasn't. I think back to Britney Spears' breakdown, which happened at a point when she no longer seemed like a normal person, and so there was an outpouring of ridicule from people who would never even consider that 'hey, maybe she has feelings too'.<br><br>Times have changed a lot since then though. The rise of social media means that fans can peer into the world of their favourite artists every day, and through the window that they choose to open, rather than what is presented via tabloids and the like. It brings a rise in parasocial relationships which, while not actually as significant as they feel to the person in question, go a long way to bringing the artists back to the level of the people. So many stars of the past just can't connect in the same way, possibly because they're too old, possibly because they're not ready for the shift, but either way, someone who's 16 years old now doesn't really have an affinity for a pop star who had hits 10 years ago, they want someone who feels more like them.<br><br>Which is why after 6 paragraphs I can finally address Ariana Grande herself. I often see her touted as just about the only pop star who still matters. You can run all sorts of numbers in favour of other artists still, but the way I see it, she's a rare pop musician who feels completely in tune with the times of today. People like her songs, but they really like her in general. Over time she's gradually seeped more of this persona into her music and it's paying off extremely well. Her life is filled with nonstop drama that just comes her way because she's in the periphery. She may be the biggest pop star at the moment, but she's living a life that nobody could honestly envy.<br><br>I find myself compelled by the way she spins the drama around in her songs. Songs like "no tears left to cry", "breathin" and this all embody the idea of powering through the worst shit. This song in particular feels more pertinent about it because it was released just two months after Mac Miller passed away, and there's absolutely no way the song could even be conceived prior to that. This in itself is yet another strength in Ariana's deck of cards, that she's so readily adapted to this age where new music is expected more frequently than ever (look at the difference between say Jeff Buckley, whose posthumous releases come sometimes over a decade apart, while XXXTENTACION's label has pushed out two in two months) from younger fans. If you're an artist like Drake whose output regularly sounds like his songs were made in a week (I say this even for the ones I love), but it's more rare for an artist in Ariana's wheelhouse. Yet she keeps doing it, and is about to release the album of the same name only 6 months after her last.<br><br>Honestly though there's no better way to prove her cultural standing than the very status of the song. The titular phrase, to my understanding, pretty much was invented in this song, and yet it's instantly been weaved into popular culture as an extremely flexible phrase of dismissal. She even got in on Drake's other wheelhouse because I personally saw the 'one taught me...' line as an established meme before I even heard the song and found out where it came from. I can't describe Ariana as anything other than savvy. It may not be able to heal all her wounds, but at least the song is a smash. Last edited: 07/02/2019 18:46 |
| **** Ein riesen Hype war dass um eine eigentlich nur durchschnittliche Nummer.<br>Ariana hat viele Songs welche um Klassen besser sind und kaum aufmerksamkeit erhielten.<br>Nunja, ich bin happy dass sie Erfolg hat, für mich einfach mit de falschen Tracks... |
| **** 4 |
| **** Vom Song her für meinen Geschmack her ziemlich schwachbrüstig. Aber Sound und Stimme im Song haben einen sehr luziden Raumklang. Selten was Besseres gehört... |
| * Oooch - wie süß. Ein Liedchen für 8 - 12 jährige Mädels (und Jungs ???). Dazu noch im etwas dämlichen Video als Weihnachtsgeschenk verpackt. Na, wer will den sowas? |
| * Naja die Melodie, die schon vom Anfang ertönt, gefällt mir nicht so, der Beat auch nicht. Irgendwie kommt mir es vor, dass wenn sie "Thank you, next" mehrmals hintereinander singt, wie eine Verkäuferin wirkt, die den nächsten Kunden bedienen will, für mich ist es leider belanglos gesungen. |
| **** i.O. |
| *** ariana grande hat schon eine angenehme stimme. aber in diesem harmlosen titel, der irgendwie freundlich vor sich hin plätschert, kommt das auch nicht so zur geltung. für mich eine höchst mittelmäßige nummer. |
| **** eine nette Stimme |
| ***** Awesome track, shes becoming more credible with every release. The title was ready for memes! |
| **** Kann man sich anhören, aber es plätschert halt so vor sich hin, und zudem fehlt mir hier ein richtiges Highlight! Da finde ich "7 Rings", obwohl das jetzt auch keine Mordsnummer ist, ein bisschen besser! Fan werde ich von dieser überbewerteten Sängerin aber wohl nie werden ... ganz hauchdünn noch eine 4! |
| *** at least i can stand it |
| *** ...weniger... |
| *** Kann mich keinesfalls dermaßen emotional abholen, wie es bei mir immer noch ihr Hitsong "No Tears LeftTo Cry" schafft. Es ist sicherlich nicht Arianas tollem Gesang geschuldet, sondern der melodischen Machweise (zu geringer Spannungsbogen) im Track hier "Thank U, Next", wie auch dem soundtechnischen Zuckerguss. Eine okaye Nummer, doch mehr nicht. |
| *** nicht Fisch, nicht Fleisch, simples Popgedudel<br><br>CDN: #1 (8 weeks), 2018<br>USA: #1 (7 weeks), 2018 |
| ***** This is a good Ariana Grande song and it's because no-one else could've sung this other than her. The song is just so personal down to the lyrics and it's bittersweet in a weird kind of way. |
| ****** 2018+2019 lief das bei mir auf Dauerschleife. Einfach Superklasse. |
| ***** Toll |
| ** Next! |
| *** Haut mich nicht um. |
| ****** good catchy ariana song, but: Can this "Hijinx" retard stfu!? this stupid moron doesnt have any clue and talking big bunch of ****! Last edited: 04/06/2021 18:55 |
| ** Belanglos |
| ***** Einer der besten auf Thank U, Next. Gefällt mir gut bis sehr gut.<br><br>Knappe *5 |
| *** unterdurchschnittlich guter Radio Pop |
| **** Ok pop plaatje. |
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