Ariana Grande gets horny on main with new album Positions and fans are feeling some kinda way about it

Oct 30 2020
Written by Josh Milton

Ariana Grande juggled being US President and home life in the music video for her new song, ‘Positions’. (Screen capture via YouTube)

Ariana Grande, the reigning monarch of pop music, released her hotly-awaited sixth studio album Positions on Friday (30 October) and it can only be described as Horny on Main: The Musical.

Eclipsing thank u, next, an album that dealt with the trauma and tragedy that the 27-year-old has experienced, comes sex. A lot of sex.

With thinly-veiled euphemisms, the mid-90s-style RnB album sees the singer look to the lighter side of life, which is seriously welcomed considering 2020 is a dumpster fire made out of several thousand smaller dumpster fires which are themselves made out of clusters of subatomic dumpster fires.

And it was safe to say that Twitter felt the same. With winkingly named songs such as “34+35” to tracks that explore post-break-up healing (“Off the Table”), Positions has positioned Grande, once again, as our saviour.

ariana grande released positions because she knew i needed both bad bitch and heartbreak anthems at the same time. i am not saying she did this for me but she did this for me
— rachel zegler (she/her/hers) (@rachelzegler) October 30, 2020

ariana grande said horny rights #POSITIONS
— MOVED ACCS FOLLOW 20SGATSBY (@bvckynxt) October 30, 2020

Okay found my horny album. It's positions (the album) by ariana grande.
— argumentative antithetical dreamgirl🧚‍♀️ (@kutuhateaccount) October 30, 2020

just like magic 34+35, nasty
#positions pic.twitter.com/pRrumiAAjw
— shay (@uaintmybitch) October 30, 2020

ariana grande was horny asf writing this album and i'm loving it 😌 #POSITIONS pic.twitter.com/KXIHCkQ9oS
— erin 🍓 top .005% of ariana grande listeners (@richiehaders) October 30, 2020

Me listening to Me listening to#folklore #positions pic.twitter.com/dzCBpPlqgb
— ∆ (@swiftsheen) October 30, 2020

In other words, after dropping the single “Positions“, which saw the hitmaker become president of the United States, Grande is saying you have the federally-mandated right to be horny.

**Although, some users felt Ariana Grande’s Positions kinda fell flat.**

Unpopular opinion: all of Ariana Grande’s songs on Positions sound exactly the same and her voice is like nails on a chalkboard
— Joel (@gymleaderjoel) October 30, 2020

This new Ariana Grande album is mid at best which is disappointing. Most songs on Positions use the same midtempo trap-pop that is found in Thank U, Next. It’s minimalism was once refreshing but now starts to feel insubstantial.
— Sean Moguel (@TheKid__24) October 30, 2020

Many of the whistle-filled songs appear to be about how Grande may have spent quarantine with her Los Angeles realtor boyfriend Dalton Gomez. The pair have, according to sources, been dating for several months.

She previously acknowledged that they are dating with the music video for her May 2020 song “Stuck With U”, and essentially laid bare about how she feels about him in the single “Positions”.

But that song similarly drew a mixed reaction from fans. Many lauded Grande for not only producing music amid the throes of the coronavirus pandemic but for making a music video full of digs towards US president Donald Trump.

The Dave Meyers-directed clip also finds Ariana signing laws, walking dogs on the White House lawn and meeting with her majority-female cabinet.

While others said that the single didn’t achieve everything it set out to. “I like ‘Positions’,” one user said, “but it’s kind of a painting by numbers Ariana song.

“Sonically it would be good to see more growth and evolution considering she’s definitely in a position (lol) where she could take more risks.”