Ariana Grande Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/ariana-grande/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:08:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Ariana Grande Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/ariana-grande/ 32 32 ‘Wicked: For Good’ Review: It isn’t easy being green https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/21/wicked-for-good-review-it-isnt-easy-being-green/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:08:18 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042703 A year and a few hundred million dollars later, John M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked, itself an adaptation of the Gregory Maguire novel of the same name, which in turn was a revisionist reinterpretation of characters from The Wizard of Oz (both L. Frank Baum’s children’s fable and the 1939 movie), has come to its curtain call. Somehow, it’s even more culturally omnipresent than it was last time around — brand collabs, tie-in merchandise, (apparently decent-tasting) Skittles […]

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]]> ‘Wicked’ Review: Well, the fans are gonna love it https://vanyaland.com/2024/11/22/wicked-review-well-the-fans-are-gonna-love-it/ Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:24:46 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040157 Before I go deep as to why I’m not too fond of this on principle, I’d like to go ahead and address Wicked fans to give them the information they’re looking for up top: Jon M. Chu has made an adaptation you’ll probably enjoy quite a bit. This is, of course, Wicked: Part One, which extends the act-break of the Stephen Schwartz-composed musical from 15 minutes to a full year – a good choice, given that the big climax makes […]

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]]> Ding-dong, the wicked ‘Wicked’ trailer is here https://vanyaland.com/2024/05/15/ding-dong-the-wicked-wicked-trailer-is-here/ Wed, 15 May 2024 16:15:14 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10038124 You know what, we’ve spent way too long complaining about Lucasfilm recently, so we were delightfully surprised when a trailer for Wicket, which we’re assuming is about everybody’s favorite Ewok — played by Warwick Davis, no less — showed up in our inbox on Wednesday morning. Ewoks have gotten a lot of unnecessary shit over the years, and we’re genuinely happy that someone’s finally doing something with them. Will it be a remake of the Ewoks TV show from the […]

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]]> Well, at least MTV’s 2020 VMAs were interesting for once https://vanyaland.com/2020/08/31/well-at-least-mtvs-2020-vmas-were-interesting-for-once/ Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:30:11 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10022681 Right from the start, it demanded attention: The Weeknd awoke with a bloodied nose pressed against the roof of a skyscraper last night (August 30), outlined in neon for his Video Music Awards performance of “Blinding Lights.” A helicopter creeped nearby, capturing his suave twists and turns for TV, and as the final, synthed-up chorus burst, dozens of perfectly-timed fireworks erupted behind him. It was the most interesting thing to happen during the VMAs in years — and it all […]

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]]> Welcome to Chromatica: A track-by-track recap of Lady Gaga’s new album https://vanyaland.com/2020/05/29/welcome-to-chromatica-a-track-by-track-recap-of-lady-gagas-new-album/ Fri, 29 May 2020 10:35:31 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10021261 In 2013, the world wasn’t advanced enough to accept Lady Gaga’s record ARTPOP. It’s fitting, then, that when she prepared her next album of pure pop seven years later, she took her creation elsewhere, founding the mindset that is Chromatica — both the place and the album. Following the record’s release today (May 29), Vanyaland has prepared your passport to Chromatica with a track-by-track recap, offered in the order they appear on the album (interludes excluded). Earth is cancelled – […]

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]]> Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande sing through the storm on ‘Rain On Me’ https://vanyaland.com/2020/05/22/lady-gaga-and-ariana-grande-sing-through-the-storm-with-rain-on-me/ Fri, 22 May 2020 04:00:46 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10021143 It looks like the forecast on Chromatica today calls for some heavy downpours, either provided by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande’s new song “Rain on Me,” or all the subsequent tears of joy spouting from pop fans across the globe. With only a week to go until Gaga’s sixth studio album Chromatica lands, she unveiled the record’s second single today (May 22), a literal singing-in-the-rain mantra about sweating through trauma on the dancefloor. The tune taps Grande for a full-on […]

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]]> Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand here’s the Lollapalooza 2019 lineup https://vanyaland.com/2019/03/20/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand-heres-the-lollapalooza-2019-lineup/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:03:45 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10005408 Now that we’ve all had a chance to properly digest that Woodstock 50 lineup, Lollapalooza is here to reaffirm the summer music festival season. Because this year’s Lolla, going down August 1 to 4 at Chicago’s Grant Park, is a doozy. Just look at that dang lineup! Headliners include Ariana Grande, Childish Gambino, The Strokes, and Tame Impala, and there’s enough small-font bands and artists in there we’ll all be squinting for days. For real, we’re gonna sto pwriting the […]

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]]> Ariana Grande is bored so it’s time to dump your girlfriend, I guess https://vanyaland.com/2019/02/08/ariana-grande-is-bored-so-its-time-to-dump-your-girlfriend-i-guess/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:42:30 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10003267 After a very public breakup with Pete Davidson and receiving flack over the loss of her late boyfriend Mac Miller, Ariana Grande is beyond caring about anything. Dropping her fifth studio album thank u, next this morning (February 8) — a mere few months since her last release, Sweetener — Ari’s bluntness has reached a new peak with her video “break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored.” Boasting a booming late-night club vibe, Grande’s well aware of the banger she […]

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]]> Year In Pop 2018: The dream is over https://vanyaland.com/2018/12/21/year-in-pop-2018-the-dream-is-over/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:54:32 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10001609 In our society, it is generally understood that music is good, music culture is a positive, that fandom is a fun and worthwhile endeavor for a well-adjusted member of society. However, as our fantasies get darker and darker, adjusting to reality and its encroaching bleakness, music and recorded sound will inevitably shift from being a source of inspiration to one of ironic and depressing nihilism. Take that song you loved from this year, whatever it is, that swooning ballad, that […]

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]]> Ariana Grande shares 2019 tour dates, including Boston show https://vanyaland.com/2018/10/25/ariana-grande-shares-2019-tour-dates-including-boston-show/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 17:22:16 +0000 http://www.vanyaland.com/?p=188259 Get ready to pray at the altar of Ariana Grande. The Sweetener singer has dropped her world tour dates for 2019, and Boston is the second date of the 40-plus shows. Grande kicks off the tour in Albany on March 18, and hits Boston next at TD Garden on March 20. She’ll be back in New York by June to cap things off at Madison Square Garden on the 18th. The set of shows Grande gave us today is labeled […]

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