Ariana Grande Previews New Album Sweetener: 'Here Is My Bleeding Heart'

Ariana Grande has been by means of the fire and come out stronger. In the last few weeks, the Sweetener singer has weathered the Manchester attack anniversary with a powerful tattoo and spoke distancing herself from her toxic relationship with Mac Miller. She did this, throughout the method of promoting her fourth studio album. In her cover story for The Fader, Grande delves into how she created her most personalized project to date out of the turmoil.


“I’ve routinely just been like a shiny, singing, 5-6-7-8, sexy-dance…sexy thing," Ariana mentioned. Nevertheless right now it’s like, ‘OK … issa bop — nevertheless issa message. Issa bop yet also has chunks of my soul in it. Here you go. Also, I cried 10 hundred times in the session writing it for you. Here's my bleeding heart, and here's a trap beat in back of it.’"


Ari also shared that Pharrell Williams produced half of the album. The legendary producer was instrumental in pushing the "No Tears Left to Cry" singer to show fans another side of her personalized life and struggles.


"There are parts of my life that they [fans] would love to know about and hard times that I've Been dealing with for the past year-and-a-half that they deserve to know about because they love me endlessly and care," she mentioned. "I don't hope to hide any pain from them because I can relate to their pain. Why not be in it together?"


According to the cover story, Sweetener will be released in July. Read the complete interview at The Fader.