Music Review
Expect the 'best version' of Ariana Grande from her latest offering
Ariana Grande comes back from the deadly Manchester bombing with a celebration of life and new love, writes Pearl Boshomane Tsotetsi
In comic books, superheroes are often born from traumatic situations. Daredevil was blinded in a chemical accident, which then gave him "radar sense". Superman was born with his powers, fine, but his home planet exploded and his parents died when he was a baby. Dr Strange was a brilliant surgeon whose hands were irreparably broken in a car crash. Batman's foray into vigilantism came from witnessing his parents' murder as a child (haters back off - his super power is that he is rich).
Last May, Ariana Grande - one of the biggest pop stars in the world and a woman with 125-million Instagram followers - experienced a very public trauma of her own. And she's come back from it as the best version of herself yet (musically, that is).
The tragic Manchester bombing, which killed 23 people, happened at her concert, and while the singer was unharmed and didn't lose any loved ones, she was very public about her grief and the guilt she felt.
Soon after, she pretty much went into hiding, before splitting up with her rapper beau Mac Miller.
WATCH | Ariana Grande - no tears left to cry..
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