No tears left to cry review năm 2024

Ariana Grande has kept a low profile since the Manchester bombing in May 2017 during her Dangerous Woman Tour. Twenty-three people lost their lives (including the bomber), and scores more were injured. Grande returned to Manchester a few weeks after the terrorist attack for the benefit concert “One Love Manchester,” where she and artists such as Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Coldplay came together to raise funds for the victims and their families. It was, as many tweeted, a chance to fight fear with love.

Nearly a year later, Grande returns with her first bit of new material since the Manchester tragedy, “No Tears Left to Cry” (the lead single from her forthcoming, as-yet untitled fourth solo album). The track’s title references Grande’s grief following that horrific attack. But it also represents Grande’s refreshed and optimistic state of mind going forward.

No More Tears

The song begins with some subdued sounds, with its accompanying video picturing Ariana leaning up against a window in a dark hallway, wearing a cleavage-baring green dress. But optimism soon fills the lyrics. Grande says of her emotional state these days, “In a state of mind/I wanna be in, like, all the time.” She’s moving past grief, too: “Ain’t got no tears left to cry.” Because there are “no more tears in my body,” she says, “Boy, I like it.” Clearly, she’s ready to move forward: “I’m lovin’, I’m livin’, I’m pickin’ it up,” a line we hear repeatedly throughout the track.

The tempo soon picks up, corresponding with visual jumps in the video’s surreal surroundings. (Think the folding, collapsing skyscrapers in Inception or Doctor Strange—only with Ariana dancing around them—and you’ll be in the visual ballpark.) She announces, “Don’t matter how, what, when, who tries it/We’re out here vibin’, we vibin’, we vibin’.”

And just like that the song morphs into an anthem and a uniting force for anyone listening. Grande and her friends are “comin’ out, even when it’s rainin’ down.” Meanwhile, she has no patience for haters, telling them bluntly, “Shut your mouth.”

A New Mentality

Near the song’s conclusion, Grande asks her fans “to come with me,” saying, “We on another mentality.” She also perhaps delivers a subtle pro-gay message when she sings, “We’re way too fly to partake in all this hate,” combined later with the lines, “They point out the colors in you, I see ’em too/And, boy, I like ’em, I like ’em, I like ’em.” (Grande has been called a “gay icon,” and her many LGBTQ fans have definitely interpreted these lines in the song as an affirmation of their sexual identity.)

The video continues its trippy ride as Grande sits cross-legged on the ceiling, wearing a body suit as the camera pans in on her backside. When it circles around front, she’s taking off her face, as if it were a mask, and laying it on the ground where a paper reads “God Is a Woman.”

As the video concludes, Grande’s traded dancing through folding skyscrapers for sitting on the grass as the sun rises, likely symbolizing the hope found in her newly embraced mentality. Indeed, “No Tears Left to Cry” is a mostly hopeful anthem (albeit one that includes the caveats mentioned above) celebrating a fresh start after a season of loss and mourning.

The sleek, carefree party jam of the spring… as inspired by the Manchester bombing of last spring? That’s not a contradictory notion, at least not in the intent behind Ariana Grande’s new “No Tears Left to Cry,” which premiered on digital music and video services at the stroke of Friday. The single was rumored to be an “emotional” response to the 2017 tragedy — and maybe it is, in a manner of thinking — but its real aim is to not leave a wet eye in the house.

There’s a fake-out at the beginning, as Grande starts the highly anticipated tune in ballad mode… following in tradition of Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer’s similarly titled oldie “No More Tears,” which segued from a potentially weepy intro into pure disco. Here, Grande spends all of 35 seconds in deceptively choral mode, before a mid-tempo dance beat kicks in to announce the real message: Salt water sucks.

The verses offer some slow-mo house-music synth triplets right out of the ‘80s over that beat. When the chorus kicks in, it’s divided between Grade lifting her voice, pleadingly, for positivity — “Oh, I just want you to come with me / We’re on another mentality” — before lowering it to nearly spoken-word mode for a rhythmically chanted “I’m lovin’, I’m livin’, I’m pickin’ it up.”

The track reunites Swedes Max Martin and Ilya, two of the writer-producers behind Grande’s previous “Problems,” now with Grande listed as co-writer (as she is for the first time on all of the tracks from her upcoming full-length release, according to sources). It’s not likely to ever be inducted into the Max Martin Hall of Fame, but it does serve its purpose, as an enjoyable teaser in advance of an album that’s probably going to have some grander emotional moments. It announces that Grande is at once affected and not affected by last year’s bombing. If there’s an element of doth-protest-too-much to the tune’s determination to push past and move on, maybe that’s as it should be.

The music video (watch it below), which offers Dave Meyers an unusual directing credit right up front, is a combination of “Inception” and Fred Astaire’s old dancing-on-the-ceiling movie musical routine: Nighttime cityscapes spread out overhead and sideways as well as underfoot (romantically, not menacingly, as in the Christopher Nolan movie). Grande doesn’t quite dance upside down, but she does move up and down the walls of a skyscraper corridor, looking like she’s not quite sure whether to be in the mood for exhilaration or rumination.

“No Tears Left to Cry” hedges its bets by offering a little of both, as the breeziest, most danceable kind of post-traumatic recovery anthem with dark undertones. It works, on that modest I-will-survive level, although if Grande really wants to be seen as growing as an artist, it’ll probably be a good thing if at least one or two other tracks on her upcoming album convince us that she still has it in her… some vestigial crying, that is.

Why is No Tears Left to Cry a good song?

Instead of being elegiac, it's joyful and lush". Stereogum ranked "No Tears Left to Cry" as the ninth best song of the 2010s, praising it as "glittering and triumphant, grand and unapologetic [...] The song exudes the magic of moving forward and marked a new era of Grande.

Did No Tears Left to Cry win any awards?

In 2018, Grande released her fourth studio album, Sweetener, releasing lead single "No Tears Left to Cry". Grande was nominated for five awards at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Video of the Year for "No Tears Left to Cry", but ultimately won Best Pop Video for the latter song.

Is it possible to have No Tears Left to Cry?

Your inability to shed tears may be medical or emotional. Medical reasons include dry eye syndrome, Sjögren's disease, and certain medications. Emotional reasons include depression with melancholia and anhedonia.

How many views did No Tears Left to Cry get in 24 hours?

This song has over 1 billion views on Youtube and over 1 billion streams in Spotify. The music video reached over 16 million views in its first 24 hours of its release, breaking Grande's previous record of 7 million with "Focus".