#but positions isnt abt that n the album alone servers its entire message about love

[queenkinqs]

i saw a tweet a while back about how ariana’s music has a way of transporting you back to the time it was released and i think its the most accurate representation of her music. every single one of her albums are a perfect time capsule of what was popular at the time, yet it doesnt make it any less enjoyable than “timeless” music. positions is to me the most timely of her albums. with most of the album being recorded during lockdown it definitely feels like an album about two people falling madly in love with each other due to the forced togetherness of covid protocols. although there’s no actual reference of covid or the pandemic in the album, there’s still this air of weariness brought upon self reflection in the pandemic; im just hoping i wont repeat history, and you wonder baby if im gonna stay, even if one day i loose it and go crazy, if my eyes deceive me i wont let them stray too far away, every time you feel someway never let me run away. its a very timely album, when i listen to her previous works there's a sense of grandioseness but for me when it comes to positions i can only ever really imagine a house becomes whatever the song on the album needs it to be. the album feels almost claustrophobic(?) to me, so many pop albums that dropped in the mist of covid like folklore, evermore, future nostalgia, afterhours, fineline, etc. feel like escapes from what was reality for a while, but positions embraces the madness and gives us an almost too sweet record about love during lockdown 

positions is not as through as sweetener or thank u, next but its the fully realized truth from both of those albums that there can still be happiness after misery, that tragedy should not be the end goal of our lives, and ultimately everyone deserves to love again.

positions is fun, but its also anxiety ridden, honest, and cathartic, just like love i think :)