She gets the reflected frisson, while still largely maintaining innocence,” Caramanica wrote. Grande’s go-to strategies is to use collaborators to say what she can’t quite, and it’s effective trickery. In 2014, New York Times writer Jon Caramanica profiled Grande ahead of the release of her second album, My Everything, and she was still very much coy about sex in her music at the time.

On another track, the highly anticipated “Nasty,” Grande sings, “I just wanna make time for you / Swear it’s just right for you / Like this pussy designed for you.” All while asking her would-be admirer, “What you waitin’ for?” “Can you stay up all night / Fuck me till the daylight?” she asks her paramour throughout the track. Frankly, it’s quite nice and fun to hear her being so explicit. The clever metaphor for one of the most culturally recognizable sexual positions continues with Grande milking the moment, gliding through the next verse as she sings, “You drink it just like water / You say it tastes like candy.” The sexual innuendo is purposefully unmistakable, and the authority with which Grande sings about sex is refreshing, especially for a singer who often toes the line between being subtle and risqué. For the few people who may still be struggling with what Grande means, she makes it very clear when she sings the opening line: “You might think I’m crazy / The way I’ve been craving / If I put it quite plainly / Just give me them babies.” “34+35,” the second track on Ariana Grande’s new album, Positions, begins with a giggle.Įven if simple math isn’t necessarily your forte, if you've ever been on the internet for longer than five minutes, you might instinctively mutter “nice” once the reference clicks.

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