Simplicity brings insipidity.

Ariana Grande gave fans a first taste of Positions — the follow-up to her most-successful album yet, Thank U, Next. Lead single, title track, and slow-burning bop “Positions” dropped alongside a music video that’s both flirtatious and empowering. In it, Grande traipses around the White House as president, often flanked by her heavily female and diverse cabinet. She switches roles — or positions — between homemaker, bedroom enchantress and leader of the free world. But once simplicity could be relaxing out of the cacophnous edms. Giving too much bland melodies makes people feel drink tons of tepid water without quenching any thirst. Compared with her previous albums, positions is depicted as insipid poses.

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爱莉安娜·格兰德 Ariana Grande / 2020

Simplicity brings insipidity