History YMMV / ArianaGrande

** Her song "yes, and?" has resulted in a three-way connection between her, Music/{{Madonna}}, and Music/{{Beyonce}}. This is because "yes, and?" is heavily inspired by Madonna's "Vogue"; additionally, a year and a half prior, Beyoncé released a popular remix of her Billboard-topping hit [[Music/Renaissance2022 "Break My Soul"]] that samples "Vogue" itself. It helps that both "yes, and?" and "Break My Soul" are both about female empowerment in the face of stress and adversity. Tons of mashups of "yes, and?", "Vogue", and "Break My Soul (Queens Remix)" were made within hours of the former's release.

* FriendlyFandoms: Ariana's fans got along with Music/TheWanted's fanbase pretty well when Ariana and Nathan began dating.

** The lyrics to "thank u, next" became this after her separation and eventual divorce from her husband Dalton Gomez.

** Oddly enough, with her own ''Series/SamAndCat'' co-star Creator/JennetteMcCurdy. What doesn't help are the rumors that [[HostilityOnTheSet they didn't get along backstage]], which contributed to ''Sam & Cat''[='=]s cancellation, even though she and Jennette don't even harbor any animosity to one another.

* BetterThanCanon: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtk_RMDs3J0 Many fans consider the mashup]] of "Greedy" with Music/BrunoMars' "Treasure" to be superior to the original Ariana song and some even consider it better than both songs individually!
** The same can be said with the mashup of "motive" and "Promiscuous" by Music/NellyFurtado

* HilariousInHindsight: "Popular Song" samples "Popular" from Wicked. Years later, it was announced she would be playing Glinda in the movie version and thus singing the song.

* BrokenBase:
** The sample of the man saying "You wouldn't let anybody speak and instead—" looped endlessly on "the light is coming" is a hot button topic among fans who argue whether the sample ruins the song and is very distracting or if it's fine and sends an important message.[[note]]The sample comes from that of a man shouting at Senator Arlen Specter at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania in 2009. As Pharrell Williams produced this song, he borrowed the same town hall meeting he sampled on his song "Lemon" under his act Music/{{NERD}}.[[/note]]
** Recently, her PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy act has been under heavy scrutiny, especially with clear examples of her using heavy tan, black accent and now appropriating West Asian look.

* BrokenBase: The sample of the man saying "You wouldn't let anybody speak and instead—" looped endlessly on "the light is coming" is a hot button topic among fans who argue whether the sample ruins the song and is very distracting or if it's fine and sends an important message.[[note]]The sample comes from that of a man shouting at Senator Arlen Specter at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania in 2009. As Pharrell Williams produced this song, he borrowed the same town hall meeting he sampled on his song "Lemon" under his act Music/{{NERD}}.[[/note]]

*** Though nowadays, Mariah and Ariana seem to actually be getting along quite swimmingly. The rivalry has definitely died down after they collaborated with Music/JenniferHudson on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2bx3FzgJ6o "Oh Santa!"]] where they [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome both even pulled off whistle notes together.]]

* ItsPopularSoItSucks: She as an artist has become this with her detractors particularly after the release of "thank u, next".

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Ariana has a lot of young fangirls due to the fact she began as a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} child star and she has a "beautiful" look to her. A good number of her singles are rather clean, however not all are. For example, "Dangerous Woman" and "Into You" both have veiled references to sex.

* CanonDiscontinuity: "Put Your Hearts Up" is a song Ariana would rather wish didn't exist and was never featured on any of her albums. "Focus" was originally going to be the lead single on ''Dangerous Woman'' (which was first named ''Moonlight'' at the time), but after mixed reception, was removed from the album and instead remained on the Japanese release only.

* OldShame: Her 2010 bubblegum pop song "Put Your Hearts Up" where the music video featured Ariana, looking uncomfortable, overly tanned and wearing a princess dress to be this. There's a reason the singer hasn't included the song with the rest in her VEVO certified account. [[TrollingCreator Hilariously, the video is still up but it's edited and glitched out halfway through.]]

* TastesLikeDiabetes: Another reason for her [[CreatorBacklash distaste]] for "Put Your Hearts Up." It didn't go to waste, though, as some of her fans still speak highly of it.