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Ariana Grande - Yours TrulyAriana Grande- Yours TrulyRelease Date: August 30, 2013
Record Label: Republic
Ariana Grande sounds a lot like Mariah Carey. She was a star on a Nickelodeon show targeted at tweens.
Now that those obligatory notices have been posted, let's get down to the grit of things...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-10-10
★★★★★
Ariana Grande sounds a lot like Mariah Carey. She was a star on a Nickelodeon show targeted at tweens. Now that those obligatory notices have been posted, let's get down to the grit of things. Her debut single "Hearts Up" was a jolt of Stepford smiles and sundresses right to the veins, but Yours Truly is more tempered and less likely to put you in a beaming state of catatonia...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-10-09
★★★★★
With every new episode of Sam & Cat, it becomes easier to imagine the bigwigs at Nickelodeon as nefarious, hand-wringing wicked stepmothers to Ariana Grande's Cinderella, forcing her to say increasingly fucking stupid lines ("Look at this cute dog! It's named Dang-er!" "That's Danger." "Where!?!") before she inevitably soars into full-blown pop stardom, which, by all rights, should be pretty soon. Grande's incredibly easy to root for...
- cokemachineglow.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
Ariana Grande, a teenage actress turned singer, is bubblegum through-and-through-- and she's already changed her preferred flavor. Her debut single, 2011's 4 Non Blondes-sampling "Put Your Hearts Up", was a generic Disney radio tune that she now publicly disavows. Apparently asserting control over her career, she's now dabbling in nostalgia, as is instantly clear when Hollywood strings and doo-wop vocals kick off the 1950s-styled "Honeymoon Avenue", the first song from her debut album...
- pitchfork.com
2013-09-23
★★★★★
At the beginning of her seemingly out-of-nowhere hit lead single "The Way", a voice says, "We gotta go back... back into time." And Ariana Grande, the latest Nickelodeon-turned-pop star, follows this advice enthusiastically on her debut album. To 'when', exactly, in time, is less clear though. The 12 songs on the album are filled with vintage chord progressions and nostalgia-tinged clichés, but from many different points on the musical timeline...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-12
★★★★★
Miley Cyrus wasn't the only kiddie-culture veteran looking to make a grownup splash on the MTV Video Music Awards last month. Though the former "Hannah Montana" star thoroughly dominated discussion of the telecast with the Twerk Heard 'Round the World, viewers tuning into the VMA pre-show could also see Ariana Grande - late of Nickelodeon's "Victorious," now on the network's "Sam & Cat" - flexing her post-Mariah Carey melisma during a performance of her top 10 hit "The Way" on the red carpet...
- www.latimes.com
2013-09-07
★★★★★
ARIANA GRANDE"Yours Truly"Producers: variousRepublic RecordsRelease Date: Sept. 3
Ariana Grande was never in danger of being a one-hit wonder. Anyone who heard "The Way," her Top 10 debut single featuring Mac Miller, when the song was first released last spring quickly understood that the co-star of "Victorious" possessed a musical ability too magnetic to be contained to one radio hit...
- www.billboard.com
2013-09-06