Focus by Ariana Grande
A student reviewer reads Ariana Grande's 2015 single Focus as a song about determination and tuning out critics.
Ariana Grande’s new song is about focusing on her; she wants the attention and for you not to wander somewhere else. Her song says that she came here for a reason and she won’t leave without doing what she came for. She is really determined and no one can change her mind or persuade her to do something else.
She doesn’t care what people say about her; just let them keep on saying what they say, she won’t let someone hold her down. When she shows herself in that little circle she means that she is stuck in one place and wants to be free, because sometimes it’s kind of hard to block the people that are being rude or mean to you, but she won’t let them get in her way.
Lots of people like her new song but others hate it because it’s overplayed by many people. Her new song is pretty popular: about 2,200,312 people like it and 273,228 hate it. Some people think that her new song isn’t the best of her singles, like Love Me Harder and One Less Problem, just to name a few.
Where Focus ended up
Focus came out digitally worldwide on October 30, 2015 through Republic Records, about three months before this review. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 7, which turned out to be its peak.
At the time it was expected to lead Grande's next album, Dangerous Woman. That plan changed. Focus was left off the album's standard edition and appears only as a bonus track on the Japanese standard and deluxe editions. Listeners outside Japan who bought Dangerous Woman got an album without the song that had introduced it.
So the reviewer's point that some fans liked Grande's earlier singles more was not far off. The song was a top ten hit, but it did not stay at the center of her plans for the album.
