Let us set aside for the moment the unskilled Photoshop (MS Paint?) work here, and focus on the content. Mims's supposed surprise and unrest stems from the appearance of 20-year-old songstress Ariana Grande on the music scene. Grande had a hit with "The Way" ft. Mac Miller in early 2013, a catchy single built around a piano hook that always reminds me of Fat Joe's and Ashanti's "What's Luv" (a 2001 stone-cold classic). She released her debut album Yours Truly in June 2013. She is capable of producing whistle register. These are the facts.
What I realized when I listened to her latest single, "Problem" ft. Iggy Azalea, is that Grande's voice, while impressive, is limited -- from what I'm hearing it lacks flexibility, warmth, and expressiveness. She doesn't -- or can't? -- play around with her voice to produce different moods. I have a friend at the gym who always says, when we are required to run, that she has one speed -- doesn't matter if it's a sprint, a warm-up, a mile, whatever. One speed. This is how I feel about Ariana Grande's voice, and this is why it is utterly ridiculous to insinuate that Grande will ever match Mims in vocal and musical quality, the end, forever.
That being said, I do love "The Way." Like, a lot. The video is amusing. At the end, there is an incredibly awkward kiss between Grande and Miller that seems completely apropos of nothing. I read an interview with her where she said that "the director felt like there should be a kiss." You are a person, Ariana Grande. YOU HAVE AGENCY AS A PERSON.
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