# Do any of you here know an Ariana Grande song? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 26, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514 "2017-05-26T22:36:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/21 "2017-05-27T01:09:02Z")
I picked “Other”. Back when VH1 still showed morning videos and a weekly countdown, I’d see her on and could have probably picked her out at the time but I currently couldn’t say “Oh yeah, she sang [song name]”. She may be better on a technical level than the standard Disney manufactured pop singer but that’s not a genre I’m into. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/22 "2017-05-27T01:12:12Z")
I am sure I’ve heard them as I’ve often let my 15 year old daughter have control of the radio. Naming them? Nah. I do know that when I have listened to her singing I have been _blown away_. An amazing talent. (I don’t think she’s especially “hot”). Damn what a _range!_ I was equally amazed when I first recognized that that singer was the same person who had played the role of Cat Valentine on two Nickelodeon shows my daughter had been a fan of (so hence I saw quite a few episodes of). She also had a role in the broadcast of “Hairspray Live” and was one of the better parts of it, belting it out right along with Jennifer Hudson. Her impersonations of past female pop stars in an SNL sketch were something that just have to be heard to be believed ([here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0WM4CRWO0E) is a compilation spliced next to the originals), and her comic chops are pretty good too. FWIW when I’ve heard her interviewed she seems like a very sweet young woman … just so very young. Sorry that her career is now tied to tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/23 "2017-05-27T01:31:34Z")
I am so happy to know I am not the only one. I swear, I lost track of popular music when Kiss did their “Beth” album. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/24 "2017-05-27T01:42:46Z")
Not to threadshit, but I’ve never heard of her before now. I’m way out of her demographic. I understand she has the same audience as Katy Perry, but I’ll be damned if I could pick one of her songs out. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/25 "2017-05-27T01:43:11Z")
Yes. I have a teenage daughter so hear Grande on the radio. Great voice. The music is fine commercial pop. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/26 "2017-05-27T01:52:01Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I’d never heard the name before the attack at the concert. This. > [@](#): > > (Yeah, and how many of you have heard of Domenico Cimarosa…) 😉 Especially his oboe concerto. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/27 "2017-05-27T02:24:04Z")
No. But then again I’m not the right demographic for terrorists to try to come after. Too old, too disliked, no fans, and just plain difficult. Little 13 year old girls are about the limit of what they can manage anyway. To be fair, they play her music in every place that cuts hair within 3 states of me, so I have heard her music. ---
**Author:** ![Hector\_St\_Clare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@Hector\_St\_Clare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hector_St_Clare)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/28 "2017-05-27T02:41:19Z")
Yes. I’m a 30-something guy, but I quite like a bunch of her songs. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/29 "2017-05-27T03:07:42Z")
I voted “Other” because one time she rocked the Star=Spangled Banner before a Seahawks’ game. 😃 Other than that, I know her for [licking doughnuts and hating America.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kDAzYjbugo) That was a turnoff, so while I like pop music I haven’t pursued any of her work. I do feel for her being in this position now. Poor kid. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/30 "2017-05-27T03:17:07Z")
I have kids, so sure. “Problem” was okay. Her ability to do singing impressions is remarkable and hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/31 "2017-05-27T03:51:24Z")
Not only do I not know any of her songs, before this I had never heard of her. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/32 "2017-05-27T03:58:09Z")
I listen to Top 40 radio in the morning and afternoon so, yes. “Side to Side,” “Break Free,” “Into You.” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/33 "2017-05-27T04:10:18Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Her only talent is being hot. That’s just plain ignorant. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/34 "2017-05-27T04:11:10Z")
When my son was little, he used to love the TV show “Sam & Cat,” so I’ve known about Ariana for quite some time. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/35 "2017-05-27T04:24:57Z")
Living in Taiwan, I had never heard of her. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/36 "2017-05-27T04:32:58Z")
Responding without reading the thread beforehand. No; I’d barely even heard of Ariana Grande until the Manchester bombing. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/37 "2017-05-27T04:40:50Z")
Not only yes, but HELL yes. My eleven year old daughter adores her. I actually have trouble _naming_ songs that are hers, but I’d _recognise_ at least a dozen. Also has a great line in campily hilarious music videos, eg [Ariana Grande - Break Free ft. Zedd - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8eRzOYhLuw) (I’m sure I remember one with her and a brother-figure mixing up a magic potion to freeze all their ‘friends’ at a dinner party and then creatively destroy the resultant statues - but now I can’t find it. Or have I credited her with someone else’s work?) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/38 "2017-05-27T05:09:02Z")
Nope. Not a one. > [@Deanna\_D](#): > > I’m really surprised that so many that answered the poll don’t know her songs. I’m a 50-something gal, and I will admit…I like her work. Sure, it’s pure pop music, Some of us just don’t listen to modern pure pop music :). I say that with neither pride nor regret, it just isn’t typically my cup of tea. Just out of curiosity I tried to figure out the last time I could name a song by a tween idol and I think it would be **No Doubt** -era Gwen Stefani. So mid-1990’s and that only because that band started out on the more non-poppish side of the track. If you held a gun to my head and demanded I name just about any other teen idol’s song from then until now I’d likely be a dead man. Again - not a sneak-brag, I don’t think there is anything wrong with popular music. I like old shit like The Monkees or even ABBA once in a blue moon, which was as pop as it got in its day. But for whatever reason the modern stuff does little for me. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/39 "2017-05-27T07:15:12Z")
I don’t know any of her songs. I know she was Chanel #2 on the first season of [Scream Queens](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4145384/combined), though. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514/40 "2017-05-27T08:16:50Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > (I’m so unhip that I don’t even know enough about Starbucks to be able to mock her name with other coffee sizes. Is the Vinte bigger or smaller than the Grande?) The unhip thing is starbucks trying to make up fancy (and misleading) names for small, medium and large. And I don’t care that this rant is 20+ years late. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-here-know-an-ariana-grande-song/787514.md?page=3)