Ariana Grande’s Gory “Petal” Music Video Proves She’s in a New Era

And the visuals match the tone of the album, which Grande previously described as “a little feral.” The Wicked star recently shared that she channeled her “unfiltered rage” into her new songs, resulting in a project that’s darker than what she’s used to.

“It pulls from many different parts of myself and yet, at the same time, it is very experimental and different for me,” she said in an Apple Music clip posted on July 29. “I wrote from a place that I don’t usually, which was like an unfiltered rage that I think we all feel sometimes.”

Noting that she often feels too shy to tap into her anger, Grande—who recently rekindled her romance with Ricky Alvarez following her breakup with Ethan Slater earlier this year—explained that she felt uninhibited in creating the album.

“This time, I didn’t filter as much as I usually do,” she continued. “I usually do a lot of rewrites and make things a little kinder. This time, I didn’t.”

With this latest dark turn in her music, read on to see how the “positions” singer has evolved throughout the years…