Micha Frazer-Carroll on Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next
Micha Frazer-Carroll, 24, is a writer specialising in social issues and popular culture. She writes for HuffPost UK and edits Blueprint, a magazine focusing on mental health, and is arts and culture editor of gal-dem, a magazine created by women and non-binary people of colour
Ariana Grande is 5ft tall – but I felt smaller than that as I wept over the digitised hot-pink ransom note delivered to my phone that November evening. Was this some kind of sick joke?
No – while Grande’s for her new single was an homage to rather than to kidnap, some crucial part of my adult capacity to control my emotions was indeed held hostage. When I say I cried over Thank U, Next I mean in my bed that night; but I also had a little cry on the tube, a blurry-eyed moment in a toilet cubicle at work, and let a noble solitary tear slip off my waterline about 20 minutes later at my desk. I was a repeat button possessed.
