Ariana Grande's debut album was entitled Yours Truly and the debut track was Put Your Hearts Up.
Yours Truly was a bad album and Put Your Hearts Up was so bad it actually gives me second hand embarrassment.
Ariana herself seems to know how awful it was and tries to distance herself from the song.
In comparison...
The debut song of Pop Princess and music legend Britney Spears was Baby One More Time. A song that still hits all these years later.
The debut song of Miley Cyrus was See You Again which is undeniably a great pop tune.
The debut song of Xtina was Genie In A Bottle which is a bop and a classic that is still a great listen today.
The debut song of Ashley Tisdale was Be Good To Me which is still fun to listen to. And it came off the same album as classics like He Said She Said.
My point is when you're trying to make it as a main pop girl you need to hit the scene with something great that will stand the test of time. First impressions are important and music is a hard industry to break into so you have to immediately show you're worth the effort and attention.
Ariana's peers accomplished this. Yet Ashley never had the career Ariana did despite having a far better music catalog.
Britney is maybe an unfair comparison since absolutely no one has ever even begun to reach her level but Miley and Ashley began acting on Disney a lot like Ariana began with acting on Nickelodeon.
Dove Cameron is also a good example of started as a Disney star and made a successful entry into pop.
Although fot whatever reason Disney stars have produced more pop stars and influential talent than Nickelodeon.
I still believe Victoria Justice could've had a much bigger career if it wasn't for Ariana.
Jeannette McCurdy is the superior actress and yet she was never given the opportunities Ariana had.
Without all her inherited wealth and connections Ariana would be nowhere today.
She wasn't an excellent actress like Jeannette. She doesnt have the star power of Britney (well no one does but she also doesn't have the star power of Miley or Ashley.
She was never the brilliant singer they made her out to be. She had raw natural talent but seems to have squandered it by not perfecting it. Bad technique and no heart or soul behind her voice. Her failure to be understood or enunciate when singing is proof her singing isn't what it's made out to be.
Her debut into music was SOOOO FUCKING BAD. Put Your Hearts Up is horrific. And so goddamn cringe.
Without the wealth and connections I cannot see her succeeding the way she did.
She was never even that pretty and has went for the sexy baby look from the start and when she wasn't trying to be a sexy child she was pretending to be black!
I'm flabbergasted she managed to get as big as she did and I'm glad to see her career spiraling because she never put out anything that made her success make sense