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Ariana Grande Channels Madonna, Smacks Haters on Deceptively Cheerful New Single, ‘Yes, And?’
Ariana Grande's first solo single in three years has a sparkling Madonna-esque groove, but the lyrics have a bite (and some well-placed expletives).
Ariana Grande’s first single under her own name in more than three years arrives with a feel-good, bouncy lilt in the melody and rhythm, and a clear inspiration from Madonna’s “Vogue” (along with a splash of mid-‘90s Janet Jackson). As for other inspirations, the Madonna element is clear — there’s even a slightly robotic spoken middle section — although it does not use a “Vogue” sample: the song was written and produced by Grande with longtime collaborators Max Martin (the most successful songwriter-producer of the last 25 years, from Britney Spears to the Weeknd) and Ilya Salmanzadeh. She’s been hard at work on Universal’s big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical “Wicked,” which is due in November, and more quietly, she also split with longtime manager Scooter Braun and is now repped by Brandon Creed(who handles Lovato, Troye Sivan, Charli XCX, Mark Ronson and others).
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