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Ariana Grande's new album will showcase how new life can come from the darkest of times.
On Thursday (May 7), the Wicked star gave fans a look behind the curtain of her upcoming album Petal, sharing insight into the project on an Instagram Reel about the inspiration and explaining that it's "basically about something that is full of life growing through the cracks of something that is cold and hard and challenging."
"It's kind of about breaking up with all different kinds of negative attachments, whether it's my own monsters in my own head, external voices, things that no longer serve me," she said. "I could be talking about one thing, sharing something, and people could use it however they want and apply it to their own lives."
Grande added that the record, out this summer, is "a little feral" and that it stems "from a place that I've been maybe too shy or polite to tap into before, and this kind of just feels like, 'F--- it.'"
The "We Can't Be Friends" singer, who had teased a mystery project months earlier, announced her forthcoming album last month, a follow-up to 2024's Eternal Sunshine that drops in the middle of her Eternal Sunshine tour, which kicks off in June.
Petal arrives July 31.