![]() Unlike 2018’s Sweetener, marked by sonic adventures with producer Pharrell, or last year’s Thank U, Next, with sounds from Max Martin and the duo Social House, Positions finds her mostly in the company of longtime collaborators, led by Tommy “TBHits” Brown. The tightly constructed 14-song collection calls back to the mixture of R&B and old-school balladry that’s been closest to the virtuosic 27-year-old singer’s heart ever since her 2013 debut album, Yours Truly -however much she’s swerved from it to claim more daring or current identities along the way. But that’s not to say Positions is just going through the motions. It returns to more relaxed and in many ways familiar musical postures. On Ariana Grande’s third album in as many years, the dominant pure-pop star of the second half of the 2010s eases out of the stress position induced by the series of public and private tragedies that famously have befallen her. ![]()
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