Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer When Ariana Grande first debuted back in 2013, she showed immediate promise. A theater kid with a Nickelodeon pedigree, she entered the music space fully formed on her first album, “Yours Truly,” a seamless blend of pop and R&B cemented together by her crisp, bell-ringing voice.
Grande was different from other pop singers of the time. Her voice was pliable enough to reach melismatic heights, and she seemed to have an innate understanding of how to traipse genre lines while keeping one foot firmly rooted in pop.
It’s something she’s explored as her music has progressed throughout the years. Across her six studio albums, the 30-year-old has mixed and matched styles and sounds by bringing them into her world.
There are dabbles in EDM, trap, hip-hop, trop house, showtunes and house music, as evidenced by her Madonna-indebted latest single “Yes, And?,” a preview of her seventh album “Eternal Sunshine” releasing on March 8.
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