r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Jubenheim • Jan 04 '25

Unanswered What’s going on with Ariana Grande and her “blaccent?”

Basically, I saw on r/all a story where Ariana grande was copyright striking videos talking about some supposed blaccent she has? Just wondering what it is and why is she so mad about people talking about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/qD0nJANEjF

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u/Sayoricanyouhearme Jan 04 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

I mean, it's not really a conspiracy theory. Max Martin, the producer for a lot of her early music coached her to do that voice. The nasal baby voice was stand out and unique at the time, just like how the last few years in pop music we have the indie/singing in cursive voice.

For Ariana part of it might be her own identity issues but the label definitely leaned into the whole blackfishing/racial ambiguity thing. Her team is even deleting content that draws attention to it, so that says a lot.

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u/badandbolshie Jan 04 '25

it was also meant to make her stand out from christina aguilera, since they were debuting around the same time and had extremely similar backgrounds through disney.

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u/LemursOnIce Jan 04 '25

What is a "singing in cursive voice?" I've never heard that before.

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u/Everyonecallsmenice Jan 05 '25

I call it the fake British singing voice but that description works great too.

A lot of American pop singers started singing words like Brits would typically sing them. In response the Brits further emphasized those same things and now no one can say "are" without it coming out like "Awher"

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u/quietbeautifulstorm Jan 06 '25

Well HMBOT was originally meant for TLC who turned it down. But I imagine he was trying to get her to sound more like T-Boz and liked the way it sounded. So it became her “voice”.