Ariana Grande confirms her seventh album

Ariana Grande is officially returning this year. After taking a few years away from making music to focus on her role in the upcoming Wicked live adaptations and her R.E.M. Beauty business, the 30-year-old pop star has confirmed that she’ll finally release her seventh album this year.

Grande shared a carousel of photos and videos on Instagram giving fans a peek at her recent time in the studio with producer Ilya Salmanzadeh.

The “POV” singer also included a video taken by a collaborator, who notes from behind the camera that it’s “almost the last day of this album.” “I’m so tired,” she responds in the clip, wrapped in a blanket while lying on a couch. “But so happy and grateful. I also feel like I weigh 3,000 tons.”

“see you next year,” Grande captioned the post.

The Grammy winner hasn’t dropped an album since 2020’s Positions, which debuted atop the Billboard 200 and spawned a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single with its title track.

Marvel teases a major death on New Blood Hunt

Blood Hunt is raising the stakes. Marvel’s vampire crossover event assembles a team of heroes — among them Blade the vampire slayer, his Daywalker daughter Bloodline, and his vampire-hunting protégé, the Miles Morales Spider-Man — against a legion of bloodsuckers to save the Marvel Universe from the vampire apocalypse. Writer Jed MacKay and X-Men artists Pepe Larraz and Marte Gracia are behind Blood Hunt, which launch in May.

Blood Hunt #1 cover from artist Kael Ngu poses an ominous question: “Who will bite it?” The latest look features the central characters: Blade, Doctor Strange, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Scarlet Witch, Thor, and Hunter’s Moon and Tigra, who are carrying on Marc Spector’s Midnight Mission after the death of Moon Knight.

Blood Hunt is just the latest chapter in the long-running vampire mythos of Marvel vampires-and they’re stepping out of the darkness in a big way.

Marvel’s Blood Hunt begins May 1, 2024.

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 13th, 2024