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"34+35"
Single by Ariana Grande
from the album Positions
ReleasedOctober 30, 2020 (2020-10-30)
StudioChampagne Therapy (Los Angeles)
Length2:53
LabelRepublic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Peter Lee Johnson
  • Tommy Brown
Ariana Grande singles chronology
"Positions"
(2020) 		"34+35"
(2020) 		"Ay, Dios Mío! (Remix)"
(2021)

"34+35" is a song by American singer Ariana Grande. She wrote the song with Albert Stanaj, Courageous Xavier Herrera, Scott Nicholson, Steven Franks, Tayla Parx, Victoria Monét and its producers Peter Lee Johnson and Tommy Brown. It was released by Republic Records on October 30, 2020, as the second single from Grande's sixth studio album Positions. The song's title and chorus reference the 69 sex position, while the rest of its lyrics feature sexual puns, double entendres, and sex jokes.

The song debuted at number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande's 18th top ten single. It also debuted at number five on the Billboard Global 200 becoming Grande's second top ten single. Additionally "34+35" peaked within the top ten in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom, with the latter giving Grande her 19th top ten single in the country.

Background and promotion

I just think it's ridiculous, so funny and stupid. We heard the strings that sounded so Disney and orchestral, and full and pure. And I was just like, "Yo, what's the dirtiest possible, most opposing lyric that we could write to this?"

— Grande, during an interview on the Zach Sang Show.[1]

"34+35" was first revealed when Grande announced the track list of Positions via social media on October 24, 2020.[2] Grande started working on the song in 2019, and finished it in September 2020 after she decided it was going to be on the album.[3] Given the explicit nature of the song,[4] which has been compared to Grande's past works such as "Side to Side" and "Dangerous Woman",[5] Grande initially said that she was "very nervous" about the song, fearing that it would "distract from the vulnerability and the sweetness that is the rest of the album". She stated that it was sonically "one of [her] favorite things [she and her team have] ever done", adding "it deserve[d] a home on the album for sure...I think that everything I do has a little bit of humor, and the people know that I'm not really sitting here 'til dawn".[1] Grande wrote the bridge together with songwriters Tayla Parx and Victoria Monét.[6] American rapper Doja Cat originally had a verse in "34+35", but it was later scrapped in favor of "Motive" from the same album. A short snippet of the scrapped version was leaked and surfaced shortly after the album was released. On November 7, 2020, Cat performed her verse during a live stream on Instagram.[7]

To promote the song, Grande released a "34+35 dad hat" on her official merchandise store, which features "34+35" graphics embroidered on the front of a baseball cap.[8] "34+35" was sent to contemporary hit radio in Australia and the United States on October 30 and November 3, 2020, respectively.[9][10] A lyric video was released on YouTube on October 30, 2020.[11]

Composition

"34+35" is an uptempo song. The song is written with a tempo of 110 beats per minute in the key of F major, while Grande's vocals range from a low note of G3 to a high note of D5.[12] The song's lyrics include sexual puns, double entendres, and sex jokes, while the song's title (which, as a mathematical expression, evaluates to 69) and chorus reference the sex position 69, with the outro's lyrics including "Means I wanna 69 witcha".[13][14] Other lyrics include explicit sexual references, such as "Can you stay up all night?/Fuck me ’til the daylight".[15] The song was written about Grande's sex life with her boyfriend Dalton Gomez.[16][17] According to Grande, the line, "Just gimme them babies" was suggested by songwriter Scott Nicholson as a joke to complete the first verse, on the night they started writing the song, but she liked it so much that it ended up in the final version. The earthquake referenced in the third verse ("Got the neighbours yellin' "Earthquake!"/4.5 when I make the bed shake") was based on an actual earthquake of magnitude 4.5 that occurred in Southern California in September 2020.[18]

Mary Siroky of Consequence of Sound called the track "overwhelmingly playful" and "no-holds-barred",[19] with Heather Taylor-Singh of Exclaim! writing that it featured an "overt sexiness".[20] Adam White of The Independent called the song's lyrics "dirty-minded" and "cutely tongue-in-cheek",[21] while Brenton Blanchet of Clash regarded "34+35" as "Grande's most sexually explicit track yet".[22] Similarly, Natalie Morin of Refinery29 named the song "Grande's sex magnum opus".[23]

Critical reception

On his ranking of every song on Positions, where "34+35" was positioned at number two, Jason Lipshutz of Billboard praised Grande for being one of the "few artists working today [who] could release an explicit sex track that sounds this luxurious and ornately detailed", describing the song as "unapologetic and dizzyingly fun, with Grande shrugging off the need for euphemism and rightfully confident in her approach".[24] Writing for The Line of Best Fit, Ross Horton identified "34+35" as the best song on and the "mission statement" for the album, writing that "the amount of puns, double entendres and jokes littered throughout is staggering".[25] Brenton Blanchet of Clash wrote that the song "hits just as hard as its lyrical prowess", calling it the "baby-making-ist track" on Positions and referring to its "NSFW" chorus as "addictive".[22]

Variety's Chris Willman remarked that "34+35" was "a little bit on the schoolgirl-sniggering side" and that the outro's literalization of the song's 69 joke was "unnecessary".[26] Shaad D'Souza of The Fader referred to the song as a "hammy ode to 69-ing" which "makes no attempts at even the most vaguely clever innuendo".[27] Slant Magazine's Alexa Camp considered the song's lyrics "a lot of empty pillow talk and plentiful dog whistles."[28] Emma Madden of Entertainment Weekly criticized the song's lyrics, writing, "Grande sings that she was 'never good' in math class on '34+35,' and it seems she might be equally bad at math-related wordplay."[29]

Commercial performance

"34+35" debuted at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending November 14, 2020, with 21.7 million streams, 5.7 million airplay audience impressions and 3,000 sold in the tracking week. It became Grande's eighteenth top ten single,[30] tying her with Beyoncé for the eighth-most among women in the chart's 62-year history.[31] Since earning her first top 10 hit with "The Way" in April 2013, no other female artist has earned as many Hot 100 top ten hits as Grande.[32] "34+35" also debuted at number five on the Billboard Global 200 chart, becoming Grande's second top ten hit.[33] With the help of "34+35" and "Positions", the latter of which was at number one, Grande became the first woman, and third artist overall, joining Justin Bieber and BTS, with two top five hits apiece on the Global 200 so far.[34]

In the United Kingdom, "34+35" debuted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart on the week ending November 12, 2020 becoming Grande's 19th top ten song in Britain.[35]

Music video

A music video directed by Director X is set to be released on November 17 on Grande's YouTube channel. The video is set to premiere at 9 am Pacific time.[36]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal and the liner notes of Positions.[37][38]

Personnel

  • Ariana Grande – vocals, background vocals, songwriting, lyrics, melodies, vocal production, vocal arrangement, audio engineering
  • Tommy Brown – songwriting, production
  • Mr. Franks – songwriting, co-production
  • Peter Lee Johnson – songwriting, production, strings
  • Courageous Xavier Herrera – songwriting, co-production
  • Scott Nicholson – songwriting, lyrics, melodies
  • Victoria Monét – songwriting, lyrics, melodies
  • Tayla Parx – songwriting, lyrics, melodies
  • Albert Stanaj – songwriting
  • Billy Hickey – audio engineering
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing
  • Randy Merrill – mastering

Recording and management

Charts

Chart (2020) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[39] 9
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[40] 40
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[41] 8
Canada CHR/Top 40 (Billboard)[42] 39
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100)[43] 67
Denmark (Tracklisten)[44] 39
France (SNEP)[45] 95
Global 200 (Billboard)[46] 5
Greece (IFPI)[47] 31
Hungary (Stream Top 40)[48] 26
Ireland (IRMA)[49] 4
Lithuania (AGATA)[50] 16
Malaysia (RIM)}[51] 7
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[52] 47
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[53] 13
Norway (VG-lista)[54] 26
Scotland (OCC)[55] 74
Singapore (RIAS)[56] 6
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100)[57] 49
South Korea (Gaon)[58] 137
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[59] 78
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[60] 34
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[61] 44
UK Singles (OCC)[62] 9
US Billboard Hot 100[63] 8
US Pop Airplay (Billboard)[64] 26
US Rolling Stone Top 100[65] 2

Release history

Release dates and formats for "34+35"
Region Date Format Label Ref.
Various October 30, 2020
Republic [37][14][66]
Australia Contemporary hit radio UMA [9]
United States November 3, 2020 Republic [10]

See also

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