A Little Jaded - Episode 13
Speaker 1:
Hi everyone, welcome to A Little Jaded. My name is Jade Zalevsky, founder and President of Jaded Productions. Jaded Productions is an artist management company but we also do a lot of different things such as a music blog, music podcasting which you are listening to right now, Artist Rec Friday, New Music Monday, lots of Clubhouses, and so on and so forth. Joanna, do you wanna introduce yourself?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, hi everybody. My name is Joanna, if you’re a new listener, I am the Executive VP here at Jaded and I am the co-host for this podcast. And I am really excited for this one, we’re doing another artist Spotlight and this time we had to do, none other than, the queen Ariana Grande. So excited, hold for the applause, I’m so excited. But yeah, I guess just hopping right into it, so Jade, what was your kinda first experience with Ariana Grande or first experience knowing who she was?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I watched, I was a big Nickelodeon kid as I’m sure a lot of people were.
Speaker 2:
Yes.
Speaker 1:
SpongeBob, Zoey 101, Victorious, Drake and Josh and the like, and I always watched Victorious but I never knew who anybody was, I kinda was just like, “this is Cat Valentine”, and I don’t know, it’s interesting to now know her, Ariana Grande as Cat Valentine. When she put out Yours Truly and I heard ‘The Way’, like with Mac Miller in it, because Mac Miller is big in Pittsburg and so everybody when that song came out was talking about it, they were like, “you gotta listen to it”, and I’m from Pittsburgh if you didn’t know that, so Mac Miller was huge in my childhood, always listening to his songs, ‘Blueside Park’, ‘Marc Market’. But anyway, so you know, that song came out and I remember listening to it on the bus, in middle school and it was really cool, because then I went back to watch Victorious, it’s like, “oh yes, that’s Ariana Grande”. Now I feel like everybody knows her, if you go back to watch Victorious now, you’d be like, “that’s Ariana Grande, that’s not Cat Valentine”, you know what I mean? And I think, I don’t know, I think it’s interesting. And going back to Sam and Cat, and I don’t know if you’ve watched Sam and Cat but it’s just her whole career that’s just so interesting, the way she was able to flip from Nickelodeon star to extreme pop star, that doesn’t happen often, you know what I mean, and that’s really really cool. That’s how I got started to know about her and it just took off from there. What is that song called? ‘Problem’!
Speaker 2:
Yes
Speaker 1:
I was gonna call it ‘Problem’, ‘Problem’, and from there ‘Dangerous Woman’ was like huge, it was huge and it was the sexy album of the year and everybody was listening to it. Next to it was Sweetener, I wasn’t a big Sweetener fan, I was a huge Thank You, Next fan, you know what I mean, and then now Positions, she’s just the queen of pop and you can’t deny it. What about you Joanna?
Speaker 2:
Hmm, when I saw this question I was trying to think back the first time that I knew of her but I would have to say I know Ariana Grande from Victorious and then from there, I was also a religious Nick stan, I watch Nick all the time and specifically I would watch TeenNick and they would show Drake and Josh, Zoey 101 and they were known for playing a lot of music videos in the commercials and things like that. And I remember, same thing with you, “that was just Cat Valentine”, but I specifically remember she never really sang that much and so I remember in the episode “Freak the Freak Out”, when she does ‘Give It Up’ with Liz Gillies, “Jade and Cat”, oh my god that song, I remember the first time I heard it I was shook to my core, I was like, “this girl can sing, where has she been the entire time?” I remember everybody completely in shock that she was such a good singer because at least before, we have heard the other members sing but we’ve never heard Cat sing and so when I heard her, I was like, “oh my god, is that even her voice? Is she lip syncing? Like what is going on?”, and yeah from then on, it’s insane, same thing with you, she started releasing her own music. I remember she had ‘Put Your Hearts Up’ and I remember they used to show the music video for that on TeenNick and she was a TeenNick star so they were promoting her music and they started showing ‘The Way’, they showed ‘Baby I’, ‘Right There’ with Big Sean. And the Yours Truly album was just chef's kiss. I remember I was obsessed with ‘Popular Song’, because that was just a play off the song ‘Popular’ from the Broadway show Wicked, and that first album was my first experience being an Ariana fan. I kinda fell off after, except for the bops like you know, ‘One Last Time’, ‘Bang Bang’ ft Nicki Minaj, complete bops and then after that, I remember when Dangerous Woman came out, that was her best album, I remember I was just completely in shock with all the stuff that she did where you could tell that she was blossoming outside of that “Nick persona”. And I remember thinking, “wow this girl is really cool”, and when her album just dropped, “I will listen to her.” Back then, I was still a little bit young, I was never the type of person to listen to an album from beginning to end besides 1D, but I listened to it. So Sweetener was my first experience as an Ariana Grande fan and I loved that album. I also love Thank You, Next, obviously. I also went to the "Sweetener World Tour” twice in 2019, she was so good. I cannot wait for her to tour Positions, I am a huge fan of Positions. Overall I am an Ariana Grande stan till the day that I die.
Speaker 1:
No I think it’s so funny that you said Dangerous Woman was the first album that you listened to top to bottom, cause it’s just so funny that I did the same thing, because I wasn’t so big of an Ariana Grande fan, but like something about it, ‘Let Me Love You’, ‘Leave Me Lonely’, I don’t even know. They’re all such good songs.
Speaker 2:
I really think that it was just that era for her was so big in general that for anybody who was or wasn’t a fan, that was when people started looking at her like “that’s not Cat Valentine, that’s Ariana Grande” it was that, it was she was becoming, quite frankly, a woman, so people started paying attention to her more. And although Yours Truly is such a good album, I still listen to every single song, I know all of them, Dangerous Woman was the first song that I wanted to check out Ariana Grande to see if I like her and if I wanted to be a fan. That’s why people always reference Dangerous Woman and how that’s a turning point for her.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I was a big fan of Yours Truly, ‘Tattooed Heart’, all the songs.
Speaker 2:
Top songs.
Speaker 1:
And even now listening to it, I scream ‘Tattooed Heart’ at the top of my lungs, but it’s like you know I feel like girl, girl, and then Dangerous Woman hits and she’s a woman now, which is so interesting. I don’t know, because I listen to the album entire way through, like ‘Bad Decisions’, “Ain’t you ever see a princess be a bad b****”?
Speaker 2:
Dude when she said that I was like, “ohhh okay!”
Speaker 1:
Bro, that lyric was everything. But anyways, we kinda already went through it, but when did you first stanning Ariana Grande for real? Was there an album for you?
Speaker 1:
I would say, probably, well Dangerous Woman, I had that album on repeat, I would listen to it everyday. It was my junior year, it was is 2017, it might have been 2018, i was in high school and actively using Spotify a lot more, and I think to this day, the most streamed song that I have for Ariana Grande is ‘Into You’ as it should be, I don’t care if it’s a single, it’s pop gold and yeah so that album for me was huge. And that’s when I started keeping up with her and started seeing her on Instagram, and Sweetener was my first, I waited for the day that it dropped and I remember I didn’t have Spotify premium because I wasn’t a college student yet, so I went for a free trial for Apple Music, I’m not an Apple Music type of girl, I think you are Jade
Speaker 1:
Yes, Apple Music, not ashamed.
Speaker 2:
*laughs* And I remember I got a trial because I wanted to listen to it from beginning to end and to properly sit down and listen to it. At the time, I didn’t have a license yet so I was busing to school, a 40 minute bus ride, I would listen to Sweetener, and after that I was still keeping up with her like, “is there new music coming? What’s she posting”, now she’s a judge on The Voice, I’m so excited because I love that show.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, definitely. I think it was so weird because I loved Dangerous Woman so much, I was in high school and she came out with ‘Touch It’, ‘Dangerous Woman’, even just ‘Dangerous Woman’ the song, not talking about the album, I was just jamming this morning on the treadmill to ‘Bad Decisions’, ‘Let Me Love You’, it’s an album but like, so it was weird because I was into Yours Truly in middle or high school, and I didn’t really listen to My Everything, besides the big ones obviously, but then I really listened to Dangerous Woman, I didn’t listen to Sweetener, and I listened to Thank You, Next, and now I listen to a couple songs off Positions like ‘nasty’, pov’, all those songs, what’s the song where in the beginning she laughs?
Speaker 2:
Oh my god...
Speaker 1:
I don’t know which one it is...
Speaker 2:
That’s nasty!
Speaker 1:
That’s nasty? I love that one, so there’s that one because the concert that I went to, for the “Sweetener World Tour”, the Pittsburgh one, was really interesting. I was not really forced to go, I love going to concerts so if you ask me to go, I’d go hands down, I’m willing to go to any concert whatsoever. It’s just a fun, feel good place, everybody jumping up and down, and everybody is so inclusive, and be who you want to be in that moment. And I actually still have my ticket, I hung it up. For those of you who can’t see it, that was my Ariana Grande ticket, I hung up all my tickets on the wall behind me. So I was asked by a couple of my friends to go to the Ariana Grande concert, so I said, “I’ll go”, and as long as the tickets are decently priced, I don’t have to pay my whole leg for it, there are only a couple of people I would pay my whole leg for, but anyways, yeah I was like, “absolutely”. But I hadn’t listened to Sweetener that much, but I was like, “let’s go”. And I get to the concert and sing along to ‘Dangerous Woman’, all the ones that everybody knows, and then when she sits down to sing ‘NASA’, it was so good. My friend was. “like you don’t know it?”, I was like “no, don’t yell at me, I have FOMO, I love Ariana Grande and like Ariana Grande, but I just didn’t have the time to get around to.” So after that I started hardcore stanning the album, Thank You, Next is like the best album ever. So yeah, and she really just put on a show, and I was like I need to stan her right now.
Speaker 2:
Period.
Speaker 1:
Not only is she super talented, she also puts on a show. And on top of that, she is socially responsible, she just seems like a good genuine person.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I would agree. I think that it’s always nice when you support somebody, their music because you’re a genuine fan of their music, but also when the person behind making the music, they seem like a genuine person, it makes you feel like, “well now I have to stan even harder now!”
Speaker 1:
Yeah, exactly, that was my thought process.
Speaker 2:
You brought up, something that I wanted to touch on, that some a lot of people didn’t really like the Sweetener album, they just didn’t pay too much attention to it, or they only listened to the hits, or they didn’t really like the genre change, and it’s kinda interesting because I am a Sweetener stan. I love the album so much. I remember I was in my senior math class when ‘No Tears Left To Cry’ had came out the day before, and I told my friend because I knew she really loved her and I said, “you have you seen this music video. It is insane”, she watched it right there in math class, shout out to Arceli, so I was just obsessed with it. And from then on, she released ‘God Is A Woman’, amazing, perfection, and I just kept up to date with her till she released her next album the following fall and I loved it. I remember specifically the first song I was drawn to was ‘Successful’ and ‘Sweetener’, and ‘REM’ is so good, ‘Goodnight n Go’! Even just...
Speaker 1:
Excuse me, um… I love you. Sorry *laughs*
Speaker 2:
*laughs* yes! If you haven’t seen “Excuse Me, I love You” on Netflix, you have to watch. It was interesting because I love Sweetener, and obviously Thank You, Next was undoubtedly one of her most successful projects that she’s done, especially considering how fast it came out after Sweetener, I was in shock, like this is insane. She is so good, that was a major, major peak in her career and it’s so interesting because a lot of people say that "Sweetener is trash”, they’d be talking on TikTok, they say that’s a different genre from her, and I think that’s really interesting topic to discuss. I know we kinda discussed that in our last “Artist Spotlight” with Justin Bieber, in case you guys haven’t seen it, you should check it out, Jade went a little off on that one.
Speaker 1:
Of course, it’s me.
Speaker 2:
*laughs* Yeah, Jade and Justin Bieber. Just… enough said. But when talking about his albums, I named Ariana Grande and Sweetener and how this album, to a lot of people, because it was sandwiched between Thank You, Next and Dangerous Woman, which are arguably just pop albums, and Sweetener was actually fully produced by Pharrell, it had really big hip hop and R&B influences, and he actually won Grammy for Producer of the Year for that album, go Pharrell. And I loved it even though it was a more chiller vibe, it wasn’t Thank You, Next and Dangerous Woman, but I really liked it and I think that Positions is Sweetener’s older sister in that it’s very pop but it’s also very R&B. With Positions, a lot of people weren’t really vibing with the genre mix, and I think it’s really interesting how a lot of fans think that Ariana Grande is pop and she has to stick with pop or else “I’m not going to listen to it”. And I think it’s a very interesting conversation.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and I think it’s a very interesting conversation because a lot of artists like Justin Bieber, you start out with something and you’re labelled as that, even Nicki Minaj says it, “I’m the queen of rap, Ariana run pop” and...
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah!
Speaker 1:
It’s like you get put into these positions of being...
Speaker 2:
No pun intended.
Speaker 1:
Nope, no pun intended... but pun intended, but being assigned an artist and a certain genre and once you get put in that, anything that you put in that is separate from that genre is not going to be popular, but I’m like “why?” I like hearing R&B Ariana Grande, I haven’t listened to the album fully but, unless it is Justin Bieber, but you know, Justin Bieber talked about this, that was just weird because no one does promo for that anyways, but I mean even when he did Changes, it wasn’t even listened to that much compared to Justice or Purpose. So it’s weird because these artists try to do different things and the audience is like, “no, go back to pop”, but I don’t know it’s what you want to do, your artistic vision, and I’ll listen to it type of thing, so
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
I don’t get it. Even now getting into Ariana Grande more, I have listened to the Sweetener album more and I do love ‘REM’ and like ‘Everytime’, I believe, is that one, and ‘raindrops’, I just put ‘raindrops’ on repeat all day sometimes just to hear her belting, there are good songs on there, but I don’t know.
Speaker 2:
I don’t understand it.
Speaker 1:
But like she’s good with whatever, let’s face it, she’s good at whatever she does
Speaker 2:
Oh period
Speaker 1:
No matter what she does, it's such an interesting conversation to have. When you brought it up, I knew I didn’t really follow Ariana Grande that much until Thank You, Next, but I knew that she had come out with Sweetener and hit back real close, and I think that is an interesting conversation to have because artists do an albu, a tour, and back in studio, so I think it’s interesting that she kinda broke the mold in that sense, and I think it’s interesting.
Speaker 2:
It’s not really normal
Speaker 1:
It’s not
Speaker 2:
It’s not the cookie cutter formula that usually artists stick to
Speaker 1:
Well definitely, I think that is part of the Ariana Grande effect, you know her team and label let’s her do that because they know she’ll be successful anyways, because she’s so huge and dynamite so she’s allowed to break the mold, she doesn’t have to go against these things that everybody has to do because they’re not Ariana Grande, it’s so interesting.
Speaker 2:
It is really interesting, and I think that she really shocked everybody. I remember she dropped Sweetener in the Fall of 2018, late 2018, and then all of a sudden she started teasing releasing her next album already, in March 2019, which was a month or two before she was supposed to go on tour for Sweetener, initially the “Sweetener World Tour”. I remember buying the tickets and when she released, I was like “oh my god what’s going to happen? Is she going to rebrand the tour? What is it?”, and she was so genius, like branding her merch was half "Sweetener" and half...
Speaker 1:
I was just gonna say, it was half Thank You, Next and half Sweetener!
Speaker 2:
Oh my god. It was so genius, and the way that she was able to create that tour around not not giving Sweetener enough attention, and giving Thank You, Next just enough attention, and you know the older songs, obviously her hits and everything, she did it so well. I, obviously, am a big Ariana Grande fan, so I kept up with everything in terms of why she released Thank You, Next the way she did, like her whole process and everything. Sweetener was a very much the “I’m in love with you” album, there’s the song ‘Pete Davidson’ so we know who she’s talking about, but there were a lot of songs where she wrote about her internal struggle with Mac and when everything was happening, and Manchester, if you haven’t heard about it, I wanna say there is about 20 seconds of...
Speaker 1:
I think there is a minute and 20s of silence.
Speaker 2:
Yeah there is like a bunch of silence at the end of the song, that was the amount of time the Manchester shooting happened. She wanted to release the album and pay tribute to all the lives that were lost, yeah that album was definitely… it definitely had a lot of themes of things that were going on in her life. And I think that something that Ariana Grande does in general, each album is depicting what’s going on in her life at that moment. Sweetener was like I’m in love, it’s me talking about this person, then everything went down, just as a third party, we don’t know what that happened before Pete Davidson, and then they broke up. And then Thank You, Next was her like, “I’m a bad b****”, and that’ when a lot of people gravitate towards her music, the idea of women empowerment and uplifting, ‘7 Rings’, oh my god, ‘Thank You, Next’, it was so huge, it was almost a revival moment for her after all that went down the past two years, everything that had going on in her life. And it’s so amazing that she was able to put all these feelings into making this massive album that would be Grammy nominated. It was huge.
Speaker 1:
Definitely, like you said that "Sweetener" is like an in love album, I mean the way that I took the album which is almost the way that you took it, like I’m kinda struggling but also in love, like I’m trying to go over it and it’s like she’s actually sitting down to pay tribute to everything that had happened in her life, like the Manchester victims, and got that out of the way and going on to the next chapter. Even with ‘Fake Smile’, she’s still getting real and she’s still like, “I don’t want to fake a smile”, and it’s interesting, I feel like from Sweetener to Thank You, Next, “I’m struggling, I’m in love, I wanna pay tribute to this”, and then Thank You, Next is like, “alright, thank you, next”.
Speaker 2:
Yeah. Even in Thank You, Next, obviously that is an album about this transitional period in her life, but there are still songs that talk about struggle. ‘In My Head’ is one of my favorite songs, you could feel, I wish I could ask her if that voicemail that’s at the beginning of the song, was staged or was it real, because that was *ugh* amazing! It was so real, when I was listening to that song, I could see myself in that, that’s why that whole album just resonated so much with many people. Even with ‘Fake Smile’ she was like, “you know, I’ve been through so much in this past year”, the media won’t let things down, everyone will keep bringing up her past relationships this or that, so...
Speaker 1:
That’s female artists all the time though.
Speaker 2:
Oh, that’s a whole other conversation, we could have a whole discussion about it.
Speaker 1:
Female artists are never allowed to lay down their past.
Speaker 2:
It is just insane, I was actually in a Clubhouse call recently with some girls and they said that Dangerous Woman, being a very pivotal moment in her career, or a very pivotal era in her career, and we were actually discussing that no matter what happens, people are going to bring that up in her career, people are going to bring up her past, and we can definitely save that conversation for another time because that’s a very different conversation to have that I want to get into.
Speaker 1:
We can bring back evidence and lots of different things.
Speaker 2:
Yes! Even songs on Thank You, Next like the ‘Imagine’, like, “imagine a world where we could just live our lives and not have to worry about anything”, and ‘Ghostin’! I wanted say ‘Moonlight’ *laughs* but ‘Ghostin’. That song was like her inner turmoil being with her ex fiance and her situation losing her ex, it’s not just, “I’m a bad b**** album”, it still dives into her, and what she has been going through.
Speaker 1:
The funny thing is that she is able to put all her feelings to make smash hits, top radio songs, it is the Ariana Grande effect.
Speaker 2:
Mhmm. Yeah. Oh yeah!
Speaker 1:
While we’re still on our favorite album and stuff, what’s your favorite album and era?
Speaker 2:
Oh my god, that’s so hard, I think you can come to consensus faster than I can!
Speaker 1:
Okay, then I will! *laughs* I’d have to say... Dangerous Woman was really...
Speaker 2:
So good.
Speaker 1:
I wasn’t really stanning her at the time, it’s so weird because it’s tied to good memories, tied to high school, not that high school is a great memory, but it was things that I did with actual people that I liked, it’s just tied to a bunch of different things. But I also have to say Thank You, Next because of the concert. I love this album so I’d have to say it’s a tie between Dangerous Woman and Thank You, Next, it’s just nostalgia and fun and it’s just a really good album.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that was my biggest struggle, whenever people would ask me what’s my favorite album, I want to say Dangerous Woman because that’s the album that really got me into her but also I’m so so into Yours Truly, still love every single song, top to bottom, everything is amazing. I remember back then, even though I didn’t know all of the songs, I didn’t really know everything there was to know about her, just enjoying her songs. I remember I used to watch the Youtube videos, ‘Baby I’, ‘Right There’. I used to watch and look up “Ariana Grande iTattooed Heart’ live” *laughs* I remember I wanted to watch all these videos and her songs. I was getting into her a lot but then I fell off. Yours Truly was such a nostalgic album for me, I watched her perform ‘Right There’ on the "Sweetener World Tour”, I went off. If you know the Big Sean rap, I love you because I do too.
Speaker 1:
Me! I love it.
Speaker 2:
Yes! But also, I also feel like I almost want to lump Sweetener and Thank You, Next together because I envision, I always picture them together, they went hand in hand. Especially considering the tour, seeing all those songs performed back to back, Sweetener and Thank You, Next all of that is just hard to put them against together. But also, Positions, we haven’t even gotten to positions but it’s such a good album. It’s definitely another piece that is very relevant to things that she’s going through right now… and oh my god I love that album. It’s hard to choose one!
Speaker 1:
It’s hard because she’s just great at it.
Speaker 2:
Her entire discography is just solid.
Speaker 1:
For the time period especially, like she always has one or two huge hits out of every album.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I think I’m going to have to say … I was about to give an answer but then was like, “wait, I can’t.” If you will allow it, I’m going to lump Sweetener and Thank You, Next together because to me they are one.
Speaker 1:
Won’t allow it! Okay. I will.
Speaker 2:
Because obviously Sweetener had ‘No Tears Left To Cry’, ‘God Is A Woman’, it had ‘Goodnight n Go’, oh my gosh, so good, and then ‘Thank You, Next’! My favorite Ariana Grande song is ‘Bad Idea’.
Speaker 1:
Really?
Speaker 2:
Yes.
Speaker 1:
We’ve never talked about this.
Speaker 2:
Yes, I love ‘Bad Idea’, I know the choreography. I love that song, it’s so good. That one and ‘Bloodline’ were two standouts right away when I heard the entire album. But... I think that off of Thank You, Next, my favorite is ‘Bad Idea’, ‘In My Head’, but all in all, ‘Tattooed Heart’ and ‘Bad Idea’ are my top two Ariana Grande songs.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, okay all right. Let me pull up my top two songs. We’re totally off script right now, I didn’t prepare this but if I have to say... ‘Everyday’ ft. Future, literally such a bop. I’m not gonna lie… ugh this is hard! I wanna say… I loved ‘NASA’ for a long time and I overplayed it.
Speaker 2:
*laughs* I feel that.
Speaker 1:
‘Honeymoon Avenue’.
Speaker 2:
Oh my god, so good, so so good. The second time that I saw her was the second leg of her "Sweetener World Tour”. I saw that she had performed ‘Honeymoon Avenue’ at a couple of shows and was like, “oh my gosh, is it on the list now, what’s gonna happen?” She actually got rid of ‘Goodnight n Go’, which I love ‘Goodnight n Go’ so I was kinda upset about it, but she got rid of ‘Goodnight n Go’ to perform ‘Honeymoon Avenue’, and my twelve year old self was just like, “oh my god!”
Speaker 1:
I loved that. I only saw her once, it was the Sweetener, Thank You, Next thing. I don’t remember what was played, I have a couple of videos but I try not to video, like it’s just a thing with me and concerts. I only take a couple of videos and be there and live it, because I hate watching back and listening to myself screaming.
Speaker 2:
Oh same!
Speaker 1:
So I don’t even remember what was on the setlist but I just know it was a good concert, the choreography was so good.
Speaker 2:
So good! Her outfits!
Speaker 1:
She was putting on a show, literally, I don’t even know, you know, it was just like everybody wanted to recreate her outfits, I wanted to recreate her outfits, it’s so cute! And it was just so good, and the PRIDE flags at the end, it was so good!
Speaker 2:
It was so good. That was one of my favorite concerts hands down that I’ve ever went to, hands down… both of them *laughs* I remember I went to one on the first leg of the "Sweetener World Tour”, and the friends that I went with, they liked Ariana Grande but they weren’t stans, I was a stan so I was standing up, having so much fun, screaming every word, going off, and they were sitting down next to me, and I was like “c’mon guys!”
Speaker 1:
Okay wait, who sits at concerts?!
Speaker 2:
I know, that’s a whole other conversation to be had!
Speaker 1:
Not trying to absolutely smash into Joanna’s friends, I didn’t mean it that way but I’m just saying, who sits at concerts?
Speaker 2:
*laughs* No you have no idea, part of me was like, “guys it’s Ariana Grande!” Like oh my gosh, when ‘Break Free’ came on, I was like, “yeah!” I was jumping and stood up the entire time without fail, I don’t care, I was having a good time. When she announced she was having another leg in San Francisco, I needed to go, especially because I knew that it was in December so she was going to be singing her Christmas stuff. I was like, I needed to hear ‘Santa Tell Me’ live, I needed to do that. My brother, he is such a trooper, he was not a big Ariana fan, he is now, he stans Ariana Grande which we love and he and his friend agreed to go with me. I’d never met his friend but I was like, “hey, if we’re seeing Ariana Grande, I’m there”. And we had such good seats, way better than the first time I had seen her and in ‘Thank You, Next’ they were wearing their Santa costumes, and it was so cute, and… it was just as fun seeing her the second time as seeing her the first time. It was just one of my favorite concerts. That was actually my last concert that I went to before the pandemic, so it was definitely one to remember, it was just so much fun.
Speaker 1:
I think my last one was the Jonas Brothers
Speaker 2:
Yeah, cause I remember they had theirs, they had another tour. You went to the second leg right?
Speaker 1:
Maybe? I’m not sure, but I remember I went in September and they were done in like, i wanted to say November
Speaker 2:
Yeah, because I saw them again, they did their second tour and it was like a week before Ariana Grande.
Speaker 1:
Oh, tea, I love it. I love it. Oh my god they’re actually my first ones to go back to. I think we talked about this
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah, yeah!
Speaker 2:
They were my last one before the pandemic and my first one after.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, we have a concert experience podcast if you guys haven’t gotten to listen to it. That one was one of my favorites, it was one that we talked about concerts, one of our favorite topics.
Speaker 1:
Yeah. I mean, just overall, Ariana Grande is queen. She is, I don’t even know, I have no words, she has managed to make herself relevant for six albums now and I’m pretty sure she’s gonna do it again for number 7. She just, she’s just one of those artists that will live much, much, much longer than, her music will live on constantly. She’s one of those artists that we’ll listen to in 70 years time.
Speaker 2:
I completely agree, almost like a female parallel to Justin Bieber. Whereas like when you hear the name Justin Bieber, you know him, you can name this song or this song, same thing with Ariana Grande, I think they’re very comparable in terms of the longevity of their careers and the ability that they have to just stay relevant in the music industry in whatever way.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and that’s really hard to do. We won’t really get into it, like I’ll talk about it way too much. But that’s partly because they have this manager, Scooter Braun just knows what he’s doing so well, that like literally anybody who gets signs is a huge hit, like Kid Laroi, it’s crazy to think. I don’t know, everybody that Scooter Braun signs is a huge hit.
Speaker 2:
We never even talked about ‘Stuck With You’, their song together. It's so good.
Speaker 1:
They were like my second male female dream collaboration; it did not disappoint.
Speaker 2:
Oh no, I’m surprised it took so long.
Speaker 1:
I know right! *laughs*
Speaker 2:
Like hello!
Speaker 1:
Like um… what?!
Speaker 2:
But hey it was worth the wait!
Speaker 1:
It was definitely worth the wait. So cool... Joanna and I love Ariana Grande…
Speaker 2:
Period.
Speaker 1:
And if you didn’t listen to the whole episode, and just skipped to right now, Joanna and I love Ariana Grande, so with all that being said, this has been another episode of A Little Jaded.
Transcription By: Mai Vo
Edited By: Joanna Serrano