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“It’s a little feral,” the artist shared in an Instagram video detailing the record set for release on July 31<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tIn 2023, Ariana Grande<\/a> gathered her team at Republic Records to preview Eternal Sunshine<\/em>,<\/a> the album she created when the Hollywood strikes brought production on Wicked <\/em>to an abrupt stop. She cried while presenting the record<\/a>, which she described as vulnerable and toying with the expectations often projected onto her. In a new Instagram video<\/a>, Grande calls the group back into the same studio. \u201cSurprise,\u201d she said as she presented them with Petal<\/a><\/em>, her upcoming eighth studio album out July 31.<\/p>\n \n\tVulnerable was a fitting adjective for Eternal Sunshine, <\/em>which found Grande in an introspective mindset as she unpacked her emotional state as well as her perception of love. When she detailed Petal<\/em>, she landed on a sharper descriptor: \u201cIt\u2019s a little feral.\u201d Grande went on to explain that the record emerged from a part of herself that laid dormant for a while. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely from a place where I have been maybe too shy or polite to tap into before,\u201d she said. \u201cThis kind of just feels like, fuck it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSince announcing the album on April 28, Grande hasn\u2019t offered many hints about where she may be heading sonically or conceptually on the record. At the time, she described it as \u201csomething that is full of life and growing through the cracks of something cold and hard and challenging.\u201d It\u2019s the exact phrase she used in the label meeting, though she spilled more afterwards, as the video reveals. <\/p>\n