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Dangerous Woman Album


Her music is great now, not better than the first album maybe but much bigger. But I think this album it's all horribly autotuned. It has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify but it has only sold 878k hard copies. Dangerous Woman received great remarks from public and critics and was just recently certified Platinum. That means it has an equivalent of sales of 1 million in the US, while it was made of 73% from streams?  This must be a new low and an obvious case that people don't want to buy it. (America still hates her?)
I only just noticed now that Side to Side is a hit that her voice sounds awful in the studio version.
I think the album and the songs are great but they are all underperforming because they are editing HER voice. It doesn't matter if there are other autotuned singers with bigger hits on the charts, Ariana Grande is famous for her voice because she can sing and has gems of songs like these:

https://youtu.be/B9kDbQH4Y_k
https://youtu.be/2phiFw_z7B0
https://youtu.be/Z-oxwhKk2C8
https://youtu.be/K4-8IOIimFQ
or even watch this, which sounds nothing like the studio version
https://youtu.be/EQWorSQdBUo

BTW these are all songs that she wrote/co-wrote. Yeah, at the very least she should have, you may think.

I also noticed the proportion of likes she receives on these videos of live performances are the highest for any popular artist on Vevo.
So SHE, with her name as the artist, can't be autotuning her songs, SHE is not gonna have a bigger hit than the other who do it too. Her followers are not gonna buy it.
So I'm addressing the album because she is huge on Youtube, Spotify (streams, they are free) and also strong on iTunes but for her singles NOT for Album sales. But why would that be if she has millions of fans, she is the most famous for her voice, has hit songs and praised albums?
The album sales are the most important for an artist, only next to concert tickets sales. Now she is going on tour, this is where people should be watching her perform live, where she is a master on. But is people gonna buy tickets if they didn't buy the album? Could that be a case? Or it's just gonna underperform too.

What a waste of huge proportions, don't you think?

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