Why Ariana Grande is my Favorite

[JustinTheGreat]

I've been a huge Ariana Grande fan since like 2014.

Wanna know how big of a fan I am? I have an Ariana Grande tattoo..it's not of her face or anything. She got a tattoo of a moon under her ear, so I also got a tattoo of a moon under my ear 🙃

Plus there's another Ari related tattoo that I kinda want.

Also I have a daughter and her name is Aria...after Ariana...yeah

Everyone always asks me "Why do you like her so much? She's not even that good. She's just another crappy pop singer"

Well children, I'm about to educate you on why Ariana Grande is so amazing and why I love her so much. Here we go.

The guy on the right is an actual picture of me worshiping the queen

She has the best vocals of all modern day pop artists

She sounds exactly the same when she sings live, actually even BETTER, than she sounds in the studio.

To really hear Ariana's voice at her best you need to watch videos from her tour or private concerts. Her televised performances where she's singing at award shows are always her worst ones. Which sucks because those are the performances that all the non-fans see.

Even if you aren't a fan of her or her style of music, you can't deny that she's extremely talented.

(These are my three favorite songs by her btw)

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I was at this concert. I cried when she sang this song lmao. So somewhere in the crowd is me crying.

All the things she's done for the victims of the Manchester attack

She became the very first honorary citizen of Manchester after all she did

-Put together 'One Love Manchester' benefit concert and created merch to raise money for the victims

-Donated $1 million of her own money

-Donated all proceeds from her song 'One Last Time'

-She gave the families of the victims free VIP concert tickets for life

-Gave everyone who attended the Manchester concert free tickets to OLM

-Visited all the injured children at the hospital

-Made sure there were counselors for those effected by the attack

-Paid for the funerals of victims

Her huge support for the LGBT community

I know a lot of people don't give a shit about this, but I do sooo

"Make some noise if you think the four Supreme Court justices that voted against gay marriage should get their heads out of their fucking asses and join the goddamn celebration" - Ariana at Pride 2015

-Called out supreme court justices who voted against gay marriage (quote above)

-Converted to Kabbalah after her gay brother was shunned from Catholic church

-Has gay and lesbian couples in the visuals of her concert

-Talks about gay/equal rights frequently

-Brings gay flags on stage often

-Encourages fans to keep loving who they want to love and be themselves

-Performed at 2015 Pride in New York

She genuinely cares about her fans

-Most fans have nothing but a good experience when meeting her

-Remembers fans she has met in the past

-Brought a fan backstage and talked about her self harm/drew pictures over her scars

-Gave a fan 15k dollars for college

-Bought hot chocolates and cookies for fans waiting outside in the cold (picture below)

-Follows 60k fans on Twitter and interacts/dms them constantly

-Has an album on her phone filled with pictures of her and fans

-Reads fan mail

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All the charities and causes she's contributed to

-All the Manchester contributions mentioned before

-Worked with MAC cosmetics and donated all proceeds form her lip stick to the MAC AIDS/HIV fund.

-Hosted dog adoption events at her concerts and paid for all the dogs herself to make sure they got a home

-Bought Christmas gifts for everyone at a woman's shelter

-Had a humans right campaign set up at her concert

-Visited sick children for the Make-A-Wish foundation

-Supports 10 different charities

She's outspoken on issues she's passionate about

She's adorable

The fucking cutest.

She's extremely successful

Her success is not a reason why I like her, I would like her even if nobody knew who she was. I'm just adding this in in case someone is like "she's a flop" because no she isn't

-Ariana is the only singer EVER to have her first single from each of her albums debut in the top 10 of the Billboard Top 100

-'My Everything' is the most streamed (female) album in Spotify history with over 2 billion streams

-One of the only foreign artists to have their hand prints displayed at Tower Records , which is a huge and rare honor in Japan. (The other two artists being Michael Jackson and EXO)

-46.5 million records sold worldwide

-139 award nominations (including 4 Grammy nominations) and 47 wins.

-Collaborated with legends like Stevie Wonder and Andrea Bocelli

-Had a song go to #1 in less than 40 minutes of its release

-4 sold out shows at Madison Square Garden

That's pretty much all

If you still don't understand why I like her so much, then honestly fight me. Let's go.

G'bye

[lumos]

<3
Not to mention that she's able to not take everything (including herself) so seriously all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77AIKXS3NVQ

Plus she's great at impressions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss9ygQqqL2Q

I went to her concert in Sweden :D and was honored to be among the ones to hear her song Quit with Cashmere cat live for the first time.

[JustinTheGreat]

Omg on snl when she went "some got caught licking a donut they didn't pay for"
I diiiiied

You're lucky, i love Quit. I went to the concert in Boston and it was before Quit even came out.
Did she perform Focus at your concert? She didn't at mine :(

[lumos]

She did! Not the full song though if I remember correctly :)

[Cccgala]

This is a very heartfelt appreciation post :)
I hope Ariana would read this.

[JustinTheGreat]

Haha I wish

[EclipseoftheHeart]

Yeah you wish so that maybe she would send you tickets to one of her concerts.

[castratedwhiteguy]

I hate to burst your bubble here but AG is no angel. Beginning at 0:53 in this video she says that she hates Americans. Watch and learn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJBSZE1ie-Y&spfreload=10

And...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku54aGtq8vc&spfreload=10

Also we have 10 Celebs Who've Dissed Ariana Grande. Although this is admittedly a case of the pot calling the kettle black:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pm5krXSr8k&spfreload=10

And it gets even worse - WTF! Ariana Grande Caught Wishing Death Upon Fans?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC_QPNB-D08&spfreload=10

[JustinTheGreat]

I've seen all those videos.
I don't care about the "I hate America" thing because I hate America too lol
I'm Kidding (well sorta) but when she explained why she said that, I understood. She just chose the wrong wording, plus I think she was trying to be funny around her friends. I was more concerned about her licking the donut and being rude to the employee. But we have all done and said stupid things in our life, haven't we?
The second video is an apology video, that's actually a good thing from her. Admitting to her mistake.
And I do believe Ariana went through a diva phase like everyone said. I know 100% that her 'left side of her face obsession' thing was true. A lot of the rumors are probably partially true but exaggerated or taken out of context to make her look worse than she actually is.
Plus all this is from 2-3 years ago. Diva rumors haven't come out about her in a long time, so I don't think she's like that anymore. She's done more good than bad

[castratedwhiteguy]

Being a fan of Aria Grande, I can see why you would say this, but her behavior in the donut shop is really hard to defend. Nevertheless, one of my issues with judging the talent level of today's singers is the autotune and over production factors. It's just hard to tell what's real and whats fake these days:

Ariana Grande's Real Voice (Without Autotune) Reaction

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOZPwlwouII&spfreload=10

My favorite singers didn't need all that studio shit in order to sound great. Witness Maddy (pipes) Prior of Steeleye Span singing Lovely On The Water:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=heK4ZMANA68&spfreload=10

Having said that, this my take would have been more convincing if you had posted some of her official Vevo music videos along with her live versions. I do like the song One Last Time, but I didn't even recognize the live version until I searched for it on Youtube. One Last Time and Break Free are two very good music videos th

[castratedwhiteguy]

For some reason my last post got cut short. I'm sure you've already seen these videos but they should be included here:

Ariana Grande - Break Free ft. Zedd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8eRzOYhLuw

And - Ariana Grande - One Last Time (Official)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPgEgaPk62M

[JustinTheGreat]

there probably is a little bit of pitch correction in some of her songs, but I don't understand why because she sounds so good live

and yeah maybe i should of included comparisons of the studio and live versions. But i just figured you wouldn't need the studio version to hear that she's a good singer. plus

[JustinTheGreat]

ignore that "plus" lol

[DarthLadyKiller]

I have only recently discovered Ariana, I think she is so beautiful! Her voice is amazing. Thank you for posting those songs, I will have a listen because One Last Time is the only song of hers I like. Even though I love her voice, I am not really keen on many of her songs like side to side and dangerous woman. Maybe I will like these! One thing I would love to hear her sing is Love Me Like You Do from Ellie Goulding, Ellie's voice is good but not as good as Ariana's. by the way, my favourite is Adele.

[DarthLadyKiller]

Oh, and you have to see Ariana when she sings for Obama!

[JustinTheGreat]

Yes I saw her perform for Obama, she sang that Whitney Houston song. She sounded great, she sang the song on her last tour too and she sounded even better.
And I agree I think she would sound great singing Love Me Like You Do. (I can't stand Ellie Gouldings voice)

[Maxine_Payne]

I think she's a good singer/performer and has a very good voice. I was very surprised the first time I heard one of her songs on the radio because at first I thought she'd just be "another crappy teeny bopper".
That, and I do think she's very hot and pretty.

[Bleh-___-]

K but why can't she enunciate a single word in her live performances
It's like amazing vocals and then the lyrics: "djffksjdjwsnwoaaaaaaAAAaaaaaohhhohsjdjsnsiandnaii". Girl has a major slur going on.

[JustinTheGreat]

True but she improved that. It used to be way worse

[Anonymous]

If she wasn't pretty you wouldn't care about any of this. Literally you exaggarate everything. She is great and I like her but come on. Her vocals are great, but not the greatest. She is not that charitable compared to a lot of famous people I look up to, and most of what she does is for publicity. If she did nothing for Manchester victims she would be shamed for it, so she had to obvs. a lot of people quit working for her because of her diva attitude. and I see posts online from what she types on twitter or instagram, then quickly deletes simply because she does not want it to ruin her image. she dated a guy with drug problems, left him for that, got engaged to another guy after weeks, that was supposed to be for life and broke up even quicker. and from the songs she writes herself its quite clear she is a very shallow person.

[JustinTheGreat]

Why is everyone commenting on this mytake all the sudden, it’s literally two years old.

There are other celebrities I find way more attractive than Ariana. She’s beautiful obviously, but I can name singers who I personally think are better looking. If I only cared about looks, I would stan someone else lol

Obviously she’s not the greatest vocalist of ALL TIME. But can you name 5 artists of THIS generation who can sing better? For real. Beyoncé, and Lady GaGa definitely out-sing her. Demi Lovato is about equal to her when it comes to vocals. (Demi has strengths Ari doesn’t have, and vice versa) Other than that, there’s not many pop vocalists who have a nearly as impressive vocal range, agility, or ease as Ariana.
And don’t name off any male artists, because male vocalists can not compare to females. That’s facts.
Half of the charities she’s donated to she didn’t even publicly post about it. If she was doing it to get good press, she would post it all over twitter and ig. Which most of time, she keeps it’s low key.
She deletes things on twitter because lately everything she’s posted has been over analyzed by the public. For some reason all she has to do is breathe and then people are attacking her on twitter for it.
As for her relationship issues, that’s the one thing I’ve never agreed with. She’s always moved on from relationships way too quickly. But she’s currently been single for like 4 months. Which is a record for her. And she keeps saying she won’t date anyone for a long time so I’m glad she came to her senses and is taking time for herself.
And what specific song lyrics come off as shallow do you?

[Opinion Owner]

Christina Aguilera, Adele, Mariah Carey..
well lets hope she stays single for longer until she figures out what she really wants in a man for a long term relationship.
and I liked one of your opinions, so I clicked on your profile, this take was at the top of the list of what you posted, so I came to take a look. G@G is annoying they stop showing time of post or replies after about a week.
lots of her lyrics are shallow. from new ones 7 rings, it's just all about money. Thank you next, if she just sang thank you it would've been a very meaningful song thanking for her life lessons, but she added next so it's like she sings about used kleenexes. thank you, I used you for what I need to learn, now bye. a lot of her songs are about a fantasy, or just cute lyrics, relatable but I cannot think of one with deep meaningful meaning. ''one less problem'', ''focus on me'', ''into you'' and so many more... I don't know ALL of her songs obviously. all sound good and vocals are awesome, but they are regular pop, no soul in them

[Kylesar]

Eh. I like a few of her songs. Huge emphasis on FEW
She's cute

She's not really all that much different from other singers. Most love their fans. If something happened at one of their concerts, most would take some action. Most support Pride

Good take though

[Anonymous]

I can see why you love her! I don't really know much about Ariana but I do love her songs because of how talented she is! :) This MyTake is awesome :)

[JustinTheGreat]

Thanks!

[FatherJack]

My daughter is both a fan of hers & looks like a mini version of her , when she has a ponytail. My ex is Italian , she looks like her mothers side , she has the eyes , lashes & skin tone too. Ariana knows how to be feminine & have class too.

[Anonymous]

Give me 30 seconds alone with her. Splooge!!!

[Kaneki05]

Loved her as cat but hate her so much afterwards she went from a great actor and funny to a bad pop singer who only sings about sex and money.

Honestly one of my most hated people in this world she went from greatness to this rubbish.

[JustinTheGreat]

She was never a good actress tbh...
You never liked the real Ariana. You liked the character she played. But not her, herself

[GayHowellMeme]

She is really pretty, I love when people speak out their minds about what they like.

[player0696]

Email this post to Ariana, she might be fall in love with you.

[JustinTheGreat]

lol I wish

[player0696]

Send it now, bro!!!

[judyy324]

I can relate! I've followed her journey since Season 1 of Victorious (so 2010ish, when she was fresh off Broadway) and was so excited when she finally got that record deal :)

[EclipseoftheHeart]

Jesus, someone has a major jones for her. I get the vibe of stalker here.

[JustinTheGreat]

This mytake is like 4 years old lmao

[JustinTheGreat]

And I don't see how admiring a celebrity and appreciating their talent and their personality is stalkerish lol
I'm just a fan. You act like I said I wait outside her house and shit.

[EclipseoftheHeart]

Seriously? I just saw it on the feed today. :(

[AleDeEurope]

Haven't heard much of her, tbh, but I've heard people have a blast at her concerts

[dH8x9x3LcrTplJ7KFqeY]

Fucking legend

[Iron_Man]

She's proof Good things come in small packages

[Anonymous]

She's a donut licking attention whore who dresses like a slut to sell record. Her leaked nudes were hot though

[DizzyAster]

I think she is adorable.

[Anonymous]

What is a "butt bicycle" anywho?

[JustinTheGreat]

Dick bicycle * lol

[Opinion Owner]

Really? Is that how the song goes?

OK, what is a dick bicycle? That makes even less sense because when you're on a bicycle you sit on your butt.

[JustinTheGreat]

Its about riding dick. The whole song is about riding dick or getting fucked to the point where you're sore

[Opinion Owner]

Wow. I truly envy the guy who inspired her to write that song... can you imagine? I wonder who her man is.

I swear I heard butt bicycle though, it was on the radio however, so maybe they thought dick was just too graphic of a word and edited with a butt version.

[JustinTheGreat]

She's dating Mac Miller, who is a rapper.
But at the time the song came out, she was dating her back up dancer, Ricky.

And yeah on the radio they edit it so it says "ride b-bicycle" and it does sound like butt haha.

[Opinion Owner]

So I need to become a "back up dancer" or a rapper. Shouldn't be too hard.

[JustinTheGreat]

Good luck 😛