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Little is learned from them, and their extreme 2019-ness risks dulling the film’s rewatchability factor down the line. It’s hard not to feel like these segments could’ve instead been uploaded to Grande’s YouTube channel, since they serve as an awkward claw machine continually removing you from the show itself-an escapist marvel of glitter and bisexual lighting that you don’t really want to leave. It’s been made less to convert the unconverted than to supply die-hard Arianators with some new GIFs. Cue another on-screen annotation: “(too bad he wasn’t convicted – thank god biden won anyway!)”

Grande screams in delight hearing that Donald Trump’s impeachment will move forward, a scene that feels more or less pointless now. Victoria Monét, Grande’s close friend and fellow artist, shows up at one point to rehearse their 2019 collaboration, “MONOPOLY,” but we don’t get to see them actually perform it that night. The film is further weighed down by dead-ends and asides. One example: “(still drunk… who am I waving to?)” What exposition the film does offer at times comes in the form of strange on-screen annotations from Grande herself, typing in her usual all-lowercase. So when Scooter Braun-Grande’s manager whose likeness is for sure on at least one dartboard in Taylor Swift’s home-tells us that he’s proud of Grande in light of “where she was six to eight months ago,” we’re assumed to already know what he’s referring to.

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Joan Grande, Ariana’s mother, is introduced with the title “need we say more?” Likewise, the personal struggles that directly informed Sweetener and thank u, next-surviving the horrific Manchester Arena bombing in 2017, calling off her engagement to Pete Davidson in 2018, and losing ex-boyfriend Mac Miller later that year-are never uttered out loud. There’s also little to no exposition for the so-called unconverted. In one lengthier segment, she tells her friends a dog diarrhea horror story, a scene that’s saved only by the punchline “Kristin Chenoweth’s still on FaceTime, might I add.” There are more meaningful backstage scenes, to be sure-Grande gets choked up explaining how much it means to her that Mariah Carey likes her, she gets choked up again telling her team that the tour has “for sure, for sure, for sure saved life this year”-but these feel sparse considering that the film covers almost a year in the star’s life.

The film’s behind-the-scenes segments, which collectively add up to just 20 or so minutes, seem to have been chosen for Grande’s camera-readiness more than anything else. Instead, it becomes clear early in excuse me that it’s been made less to convert the unconverted than to supply die-hard Arianators with some new GIFs. If only the film had been 97 minutes of this.Īriana grande: excuse me, i love you (Netflix) And her mic, to paraphrase Prince, is very much on how she nails her trademark whistle tones while also performing heavy choreo is beyond me.

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Grande, for her part, bounces around like a beautiful space butterfly in her custom Versace and Michael Ngo designs, ponytail in full force. (Its behind-the-scenes segments were handled by Story Syndicate, aka the documentarians Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan.)ĭugdale’s resume is prolific for a reason, and he expertly captures the energy and artistry of the London show-no small feat given the stage production, from the massive inflatable orb that hovers over Grande and her dancers to the trippy projections that at one point fake the appearance of water on stage. It takes its name from a line in “R.E.M.,” one of Sweetener’s standout tracks, and was primarily helmed by Paul Dugdale, the Netflix regular behind Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour (2017) and the more recent Shawn Mendes: Live In Concert (2020). The fact that it was actually as recent as 2013 makes excuse me, i love you, a new Netflix film anchored by one of her 2019 shows at London’s O 2 Arena, particularly awe-inspiring.Įxcuse me is a concert-documentary hybrid about Grande’s Sweetener World Tour, which promoted both Sweetener (2018) and thank u, next (2019), two albums released within six months of each other. It feels like a lifetime ago that I saw Ariana Grande perform at Toronto’s Sound Academy, a now-defunct venue that held just a few thousand people.