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grande verse

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grande versean unofficial ariana grande fan site

a verse is a part of a song and it is also a world. this is both: eight eras you can travel through in order, each one repainting the site as you enter it. start anywhere — the song of the day is as good a door as any.

Ariana Grande photographed in 2016
Pure DOPE Magazine · CC BY 3.0
Ariana Grande performing live

one song, every day, the same one for everybody

Melissa Rose from USA · CC BY 2.0 · credits

song of the day

album artwork for focus

dangerous woman · 2015

focus

released as the lead single for an album that then became a different album. cut from the final tracklist and now a genuine curiosity.

Ariana Grande on stage

thirteen years, eight records

MTV UK · CC BY 3.0 · credits

the spine

in order, oldest first. the colour under each one is the palette that era wears when you open it, so the list doubles as the map.

  1. 2013yours trulythe debut that sounded like 1963 and 1997 at once
  2. 2014my everythingthe hard pivot into dance-pop, one year later
  3. 2016dangerous womanthe record that stopped asking permission
  4. 2018sweetenerpharrell, trauma, and the strangest pop record she has made
  5. 2019thank u, nextwritten and released in the time most albums spend being mixed
  6. 2020positionsthe quiet one — r&b, strings, and no interest in being loud
  7. 2024eternal sunshinea break-up record shaped like a concept album
  8. 2026petalblack and white, twelve tracks, blunter than anything before it

everything else

7 ways in. the catalogue, the eras, the tours, the games, the acting, the argument for why any of it is worth your time — and taste, which listens to what you keep and finds you songs by other artists.

Ariana Grande performing live
Nicki Minaj Headlines the T-Mobile Arena Grand Opening in Las Vegas w/ Special Guest Ariana Grande Pure DOPE Magazine · CC BY 3.0 · credits

200 recordings across 8 eras, 75 of them with credits and a written note. no lyrics reproduced, no audio hosted, every photograph licensed and credited.

further reading

longer pieces on this, written to be checkable — every claim sourced and stamped with the date it was last verified.

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