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The 24-year-old shared details on her next album, life after the Manchester bombing, and how her fans encourage her to be vulnerable.

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Grande’s fourth studio album Sweetener is due out in July, and she says fans can expect it to be more message-driven than her previous releases. “I’ve always just been like a shiny, singing, 5-6-7- 8, sexy-dance…sexy thing. But now it’s like, ‘OK … issa bop – but issa message. Issa bop but also has chunks of my soul in it,” she told The Fader.

She cited a juxtaposition between the emotionality of the tracks and some of the album’s “trap beat” production, which is evident on the album’s triumphant first single “No Tears Left to Cry.” She worked with Pharrell Williams to take her music in this newer direction, revealing that she cried many times during the writing sessions. “There’s definitely some crying-on the-dance floor stuff on this one,” Grande said.

The video for “No Tears Left to Cry” subtly featured a bee as an homage to the victims and survivors of the tragic bombing during her Manchester concert last May. Grande discussed her healing process following the incident, stating that she still finds herself speechless: “I guess I thought with time, and therapy, and writing, and pouring my heart out, and talking to my friends and family that it would be easier to talk about, but it’s still so hard to find the words.”