{"id":342685,"date":"2026-05-29T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=342685"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:44:01","slug":"ariana-grande-fans-say-boring-latest-single-sounds-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/ariana-grande-fans-say-boring-latest-single-sounds-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Fans Say &#8216;Boring&#8217; Latest Single \u2018Sounds AI\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong> is officially back in music mode, but not everyone seems to be loving her latest release. The pop superstar dropped \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me\u201d late Thursday night, marking the primary taste of her upcoming album \u201cPetal.\u201d While Grande called the track certainly one of her \u201cfavorite songs\u201d she\u2019s ever written, some fans quickly flooded social media with harsh reactions, calling the song \u201cboring,\u201d \u201cmid,\u201d and even questioning whether AI had a hand in creating it. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage mobile-image-full-width\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jorge Estrellado\/Image Press Agency\/MEGA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grande officially launched her latest music era by releasing \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me,\u201d the lead single from her upcoming album, \u201cPetal,\u201d due out July 31. The discharge marks Ariana\u2019s first major musical rollout since 2024\u2019s \u201cEverlasting Sunshine,\u201d which arrived amid intense public attention surrounding her personal life and relationship with boyfriend <strong>Ethan Slater<\/strong>, whom she met while filming Wicked.<\/p>\n<p>In recent times, Grande has shifted much of her focus toward acting, earning praise for portraying Glinda in \u201cWicked\u201d and its follow-up film, \u201cWicked: For Good.\u201d Still, fans were desirous to see what Grande had in store as she returned to the studio.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- TargetVideo video matching --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-fans-didn-t-hold-back-their-reactions\">Fans Didn\u2019t Hold Back Their Reactions<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage mobile-image-full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=1152,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ariana-Grande-Oscars-768x1152.jpg\" alt=\"Ariana Grande at the Oscars\" class=\"wp-image-772293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1024,height=1536,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ariana-Grande-Oscars-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=1152,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ariana-Grande-Oscars-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=683,height=1024,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ariana-Grande-Oscars-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=200,height=300,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ariana-Grande-Oscars-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=428,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ariana-Grande-Oscars-scaled.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100px, 100vw\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Newscom\/(Mega Agency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unfortunately for Ariana, not everyone was impressed. Shortly after the one dropped, social media lit up with mixed, and at times brutal, reactions from disillusioned listeners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe song is so boring,\u201d one user said, while some fans admitted they expected more from the lead single of Ariana\u2019s eighth studio album. \u201cKinda underwhelming tbh especially for a lead,\u201d one fan shared, while one other described the track as \u201ckinda mid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others were even harsher. \u201cOmg what possessed her to decide on this as a lead.. it sounds ai generated,\u201d one user wrote as more fans compared the one to material from \u201cEverlasting Sunshine,\u201d arguing that it didn\u2019t feel like a fresh era for the singer. \u201cSo disillusioned. Nothing latest, it could literally fit within the \u2018Everlasting Sunshine\u2019 album,\u201d one other fan shared.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone hated the brand new single, nonetheless. While some listeners slammed the track online, others rushed to Ariana\u2019s defense and praised the singer\u2019s long-awaited return to music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe voice of an angel is back with the gift of a ravishing song for us!\u201d one supporter wrote. \u201cyour voice\u2026 i missed you a lot,\u201d one other fan commented, while others called the one \u201cliterally the perfect song ever\u201d and declared it \u201cPERFECTION.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ariana-grande-previously-called-the-song-one-of-her-favorites\">Ariana Grande Previously Called The Song One Of Her \u2018Favorites\u2019<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ariana Grande - hate that i made you love me (official lyric video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v1t4MTqdfyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Grande first announced \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me\u201d on May 8 via Instagram, telling fans the track was deeply personal to her. Calling it \u201ccertainly one of my favorite songs i\u2019ll ever write,\u201d Ariana revealed it was created alongside longtime collaborators ILYA and Max Martin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProduced by my favorite collaborators and dearest human beings on this planet, the good @ilya_music, the one and only max martin (and me),\u201d she wrote. \u201cI simply cannot wait for it to be yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later within the month, Grande teased the discharge with snippets of the instrumental backing track before unveiling the song in full.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-grande-s-music-video-features-a-familiar-face\">Grande\u2019s Music Video Features A Familiar Face<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage mobile-image-full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=1024,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ariana-Grande-red-carpet-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ariana Grande on a red carpet\" class=\"wp-image-772291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1152,height=1536,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ariana-Grande-red-carpet-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=1024,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ariana-Grande-red-carpet-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=225,height=300,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ariana-Grande-red-carpet-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=428,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ariana-Grande-red-carpet-scaled.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100px, 100vw\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Xavier Collin\/Image Press Agency \/ MEGA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ahead of the music video\u2019s release on Monday, Grande teased fans with a brief clip featuring actor <strong>Justin Long<\/strong>. Within the preview, Long is seen driving before nervously glancing in his rearview mirror, only to seek out Ariana sitting within the backseat gazing him.<\/p>\n<p>The casting continues Ariana\u2019s recent tradition of recruiting recognizable Hollywood faces for her visuals. <strong>Penn Badgley<\/strong> previously starred within the video for \u201cThe Boy Is Mine,\u201d while <strong>Evan Peters<\/strong> appeared in \u201cWe Can\u2019t Be Friends.\u201d Over time, Grande has also recruited stars like <strong>Charles Melton<\/strong> and <strong>Jonathan Bennett<\/strong> for a few of her biggest music video moments.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ariana-grande-has-built-an-award-winning-career\">Ariana Grande Has Built An Award-Winning Profession<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage mobile-image-full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=960,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ariana-Grande-768x960.jpg\" alt=\"Ariana Grande-Butera wearing a custom Fendi dress and Swarovski jewelry arrives at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards\" class=\"wp-image-729734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1229,height=1536,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ariana-Grande-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=819,height=1024,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ariana-Grande-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=960,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ariana-Grande-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=240,height=300,fit=crop,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ariana-Grande-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/media.theblast.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=428,quality=75,gravity=auto,metadata=none,format=auto,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ariana-Grande-scaled.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100px, 100vw\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jorge Estrellado\/Image Press Agency\/MEGA <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While her latest single can have sparked mixed reactions online, Ariana\u2019s music profession has long been backed by major success. Over time, Grande has earned three Grammy Awards, multiple Billboard Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, and American Music Awards, cementing herself as certainly one of pop music\u2019s biggest names. <\/p>\n<p>She has also landed dozens of chart-topping hits, including songs like \u201cThank U, Next,\u201d \u201c7 Rings,\u201d \u201cNo Tears Left To Cry,\u201d and \u201cPositions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariana Grande is officially back in music mode, but not everyone seems to be loving her latest release. The pop superstar dropped \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me\u201d late Thursday night, marking the primary taste of her upcoming album \u201cPetal.\u201d While Grande called the track certainly one of her \u201cfavorite songs\u201d she\u2019s ever written, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[8730,12359,815,8731,5223,2430],"class_list":["post-342685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ariana","tag-boring","tag-fans","tag-grande","tag-single","tag-sounds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342688,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342685\/revisions\/342688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}