Ariana Grande is—it’s hard to argue otherwise—a pop star at the height of her powers
. She’s put out two hugely successful albums in the past year that spawned two No. 1 singles, and in doing so has pulled off a harder-to-quantify cultural leap, going from someone people were generally familiar with to someoneHer romantic relationships and street style are monitored obsessively on a day-to-day basis, but her music remains the central element of her celebrity and appeal, as Grande has let her lyrics and videos do the speaking on her behalf.
Taking the stage at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night, the first of two shows at the venue on herworld tour, Grande was acting nonchalant about all of this, though.
, cat ears. The mostly teenage and 20-something audience appeared to be rapturously under the spell of their ponytailed idol:At certain points, there was an almost spiritual undertone to the proceedings, as during opener “God Is a Woman”—Grande positioned on a long table with her dancers, evoking—or when Grande held the microphone to the audience to belt the anthemic chorus of “Breathin” but also content to belt along for the slower jams.
Watching her onstage—soaring through every high note as if casually tapping the accelerator on a highway, shimmying playfully next to her dancers, strutting through the fans in the front section in an array of intricate Givenchy outfits—it was hard not to feel a certain sense of endearment and even pride.
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