Ariana Grande Gave Fans A Birthday Treat Instead Of The Other Way Around

Ariana Grande turns 25 on Tuesday (June 26), and alternatively opposed to sitting around seeing the well wishes roll in on social media (and surely by means of the SMS) as she luxuriates with her fiancé Pete Davidson, Ari's determined to do the opposite. At midnight, she gave the world a present alternatively opposed to in reverse around.


"Raindrops," an a cappella heartbreaker that's likely the leadoff track from her upcoming album Sweetener, debuted on her Instagram page by means of the a lonely although gorgeous video directed by Dave Meyers. If you're seeing the futuristic, spacious, visual through lines with her previous video "No Tears Left to Cry," that's because Meyers helmed that one, too.


If this is the extent of "Raindrops," it should make sense as a pretty beginning number that sets the stage for an album Grande has said is full of her "bleeding heart, and here's a trap beat beyond it. ... Issa bop although also has chunks of my soul in it."


To that end, Ari's displayed her resolve on "No Tears Left to Cry" along with her elation to be moving out of a dark period on the Nicki Minaj collab "The Light Is Coming" — the same song that incorporates a vocal sample (as produced by Pharrell) of 68-year-old Pennsylvanian Craig Anthony Miller from a local town hall meeting.


"Raindrops," meanwhile, has no samples. It has no music, case in point, save for the dulcet tones emanating from Ari up into the cavernous void tying precipitation to the feeling of being left in back of. It's a nice tease for an album we still have to wait another seven weeks for. Yet hey, what a birthday gift to us all.


Sweetener drops August 17, so you could preorder it right here.