Ariana Grande needs to grow a beard or something because watching the baby faced singer dancing the way she did at Radio Disney Music Awards was bordering on the uncomfortable for me.
I suppose it's not her fault she looks so fresh faced, but knowing her real age (20) didn't make it any easier to watch her dance suggestively while performing new song Problem. It really wasn't helped by the deer in the headlights expression she had on her face throughout- if you're gonna go down the "fierce" route, at least commit to it fully with the requisite facial expressions- or childish Mickey Mouse ears she had teamed with the adult leather corset thing she was wearing. I suppose the attitude is something she can work on as she gets used to this new, totally believable(!) image. However, I'm not sure I'll be along for the ride if she continues in this direction. It's just too creepy.
Kudos to the Diva for trying to work on her stagecraft, and for singing live whilst dancing, though. Sure, she still sounded like she was mumbling, but it didn't seem like she was struggling doing the two things together. The song itself, I'm not convinced on yet.
Thoughts?
I agree completely. I have a love hate relationship with this girl for stuff she honestly can't help about herself... She's ridiculously tiny and her face is too cute... She'll never be sexy...only ungodly adorable... Like How da fuq you gonna dance like a thot while making baby faces? You don't see squirrels lookin' cute when they about to pounce on your ass for stealing a pecan from'em... Ariana...learn from the squirrels sweety!!!...-_-
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna go ahead and say the dancing was a bit off. She seemed uncomfortable herself doing it Lol. But then again it was the Radio DISNEY awards. I'm sure she couldn't get too suggestive. The song sounds amazing though. Sounds very radio friendly. She should stick to minimal choreography with her back up dancers.
ReplyDeletethat was some weird ass dancing....
ReplyDeleteWell, personally, I could care less for the song as a whole (as well as this performance) but, if I were to be honest, it does have the potential to be a possible "Summer hit". The chorus is very 'Ying Yang Twins/Crunk Music circa. 2004'- esque which helps it to stand out...
ReplyDeleteNonetheless, I am liking the single cover artwork!!!
http://31.media.tumblr.com/572a1bbc8dc1aa411169c07988ba11a0/tumblr_n471ml1lbL1rbdm12o1_500.jpg
I love her, but that was weird af.
ReplyDeleteWHAT A TUNNEEEEE
ReplyDeleteWell, I gotta say, although her verses, are pretty much like bread in her mouth, her voice does shine with her upper belts, and I'm glad to say she has improved in that area. But those white boots? Lord help me no. And she has very child-like doe eyes. She coulda at least had a really sexy smokey eye, just to downplay how huge her eyes are I mean, she looks like she's having an acid trip on the red carpet HAHHAHAHA
ReplyDeleteLiterally Obsessed with the song. Maybe it is because I am closer to her age that I don't get the "creepy" vibes from her acting sexual, but I didn't get any of that. The boots were atrocious but she is coming into her own style (or at least a more original one) of music and i love it. Praying this wont be another album of the same song again.
ReplyDeleteIn all honesty, all i heard was "dkueihfidvbidvnmldoamcoeiheibvdbvkadmla" god i mean who understood what she was singing? all i understood was "shoulder" other than that, all i heard was mumbling and i didn't even hear the word "promise". Though at least she can dance better than Mariah, I'll give her that but of course my Mimi looks 100x better and sexier
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Mimi and her give me almost the opposite vibe when it comes to this. While Ariana seems like a little girl trying to act as a woman, Mariah seemed like a grown woman trying to look like a little girl...
ReplyDeleteNo surprise in that, Mariah has proclaimed herself eternally 12. So i don't think we will see Maxim-like Mimi anytime soon which is totally fine by me.
ReplyDeleteOMG isnt those horn sounds some other song??????? i hear reductiveness here lol
ReplyDeleteIDK, from the second I saw her, I thought she would go the Mariah route and raunch up eventually.
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget that within the gay community (not assuming you're gay; just using this as an example), the younger you look, the better. It's the same for some older straight men; they love her barely legal look.
She's far too pretty for a record label/herself to not use that as a selling point.
Mariah was also 25-27 when she started the "sex it up" thing. That's still "young" but old enough to look more woman-like.\
ReplyDeleteis that considered raunchy? ...
ReplyDeleteShe just needs to cut her hair / remove her extensions and she's look more mature.
ReplyDeleteI don't quite get what you mean. I understand she's adorable and that is a selling point but...if she's gonna be trying to sexy it up, I need her to embody a woman not a little girl. Tiffany Evans is an equally tiny and cute little thing but when it's time to get dance, this girl embodies a woman... But then again...ah nevermind...
ReplyDeleteThe part I really don't get is that what does the gay community has anything to do with this? Are you insinuating that gay people are her majority fan base? If so I concur because every straight guy I know hates her LMAO....
Also those dance moves were kiddy.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I think an A-cut wrap with a feathered layer cut from the back of her head tapering down to her shoulders would best suit her. It'd give her some years... but IDK...she'd probably make that too cute too.
ReplyDeleteLOL, they truly were....
ReplyDeleteI never know what this girl is saying when she sings! It's just a blur sound! Seriously.
ReplyDeleteHahaha. She could pull off a lot of do as long as she doesn't have more air than body. Idk why she picked Jon Benet Ramsey over normal 20 year old
ReplyDeleteNono.
ReplyDeleteI'm saying that there's a strong niche that like the innocent but sexy look. By "nice" and "some gays," I do not mean all of them. It's very common for young gay men (the younger they look, the better) to be very sought after, hence you see a lot of "twinks," often times more then "men"
Look at the Baby One More Time video or pretty much any early Britney, she was only 16-17, but her sexuality was sold because, for some reason, this niche likes the super-young, innocent, look.
Not really; I think she's transitioning, IMO.
ReplyDeleteAside from the slight enunciation #Problem she has, I honestly don't have much of a problem with this song, and while the dance moves were a little more something I would do at a club, I don't think they were completely sexual. It just seemed like she was having fun, busting a move and wanted to put a little #SomethingMoreUrban into it.
ReplyDeleteI won't get too in depth with how I feel about the song. Because I may or may not have already written about it on this link that I may or may not be shamelessly plugging here. http://mikey-pop.tumblr.com/post/84105335395/ariana-grande-shrugs-off-demons-with-problem
Ok I get you.
ReplyDeletei still cannot get over her way of pronouncing words
ReplyDeleteshes clearly a trained singer and its something you would think she would have already tried solving
but from a technical aspect she blows a lot of mainstream artists away
i didnt think the dancing was sexual tho but i just think it was executed kind of awkwardly
as for the song i was really let down - its somewhat catchy but theres just something off
It's not really about the age, but about the looks. As Diva said, Ariana has a very baby-like face and, on top of that, she's very tiny. Combine that with how the other dancers were like 8 inches taller than her and how sloppy her dancing was that it looked like she was a little girl doing a dance for school.
ReplyDeleteAnd just to clear, I don't have any problem with Ariana, I've seen some videos of her channel and she seems like a really nice person, it's just this performance in particular.
She acts like a kid playing adult.
ReplyDeleteImpressive singing from Ariana, finally i can hear her. Though she seemed nervous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr25UVgYXyA
ReplyDeleteYou can tell she was having anxiety while she danced, she legitimately looked like a deer in headlights. lol Not to mention those boots. The boots were so damn long that they made her look even smaller! The weird thing is she's so f%$#ing adorable that even though the dancing was sloppy it was almost endearing. Not to mention the vocals were pretty on point for the most part. ... still wishing she's practice some diction though.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC1cWrxk_mI this is her original voice
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