After months of saying that she's going all-in on acting, big-deal pop star Ariana Grande just went ahead and announced a new album. For a few weeks, Grande has been teasing a follow-up to 2024's Eternal Sunshine, and now she makes it official. Grande studio album number eight is called petal, and it's coming in July.
Ariana Grande and Iranian-Swedish producer Ilya Salmanzadeh, known professionally as just plain ILYA, will serve as executive producers of petal. ILYA is a longtime Max Martin collaborator who has been working with Grande since he and Martin worked on her 2014 single "Problem" (released exactly 12 years ago today). ILYA and Martin worked on many of the tracks from Eternal Sunshine, including the #1 hits "Yes, And?" and "We Can't Be Friends." It's a little interesting that ILYA is listed as a petal exec producer but not Martin.
In a press release, Grande describes petal as, "something that is full of life and growing through the cracks of something cold and hard and challenging." Grande's Eternal Sunshine Tour kicks off in Oakland in June, and she'll be near the end of that tour when the album comes out. She just appeared in the trailer for the upcoming movie Focker-In-Law.
petal is out 7/31 on Republic. Pre-order it here.
