Petal, Ariana Grande’s album of “unfiltered rage”, is not so unfiltered. Ariana Grande is already an anomaly on my list of favorite artists, considering that I’m a lyrics girl and she’s best known for her vocal work. I was curious, going into my first listen of petal, to hear the “unfiltered rage” Grande has spoken of throughout its rollout. I was disappointed when I finished it. Where was the anger? The album cover for petal by Ariana Grande It’s not entirely that the concep

Is it a rite of passage, as a music fan, to go through your first heartbreak and immediately dig through all the music you know of to find the greatest heartbreak songs of all time? How devastatingly beautiful it feels to listen to songs you’ve adored since you were young and finally relate to them. Your brain, overcome with emotion, tries to relate every single lyric back to your specific situation, no matter how much you must twist what’s being sung to make it fit. Maybe yo