For Ariana Grande’s “Into You” lyric video, which we needed because apparently no one can understand her consonants, the 23-year-old singer basically stood in a room akin to a bathroom stall and sang that shit a cappella to prove these vowel-freaks wrong. She sounds GREAT.
The thing about her voice is that it comes from the diaphragm, and she doesn’t need such mortal-ass trappings as Cs and Rs and Ts, but also she uses them nonetheless; hearing this great clip is a chin-check that the original, this sensual joint with a little dancefloor juice and modulated synths, is essentially a great love song and doesn’t need all kinds of floss to be effective.