The Weeknd Lauds Ariana Grande’s Production Skills

Following a viral tweet regarding female producers, The Weeknd took to Twitter to praise Ariana Grande’s production abilities. Producer Kenny Beats praised Doja Cat, King Princess, Rosalía and Grande on social media on 1st May, stating that we need to discuss more about women producers daily.

He said that Ariana Grande can comp vocals with 100 stacks like nobody’s business. Rosalía is a master engineer in her own right. The King Princess will stroll around a room playing everything + track by herself. Doja has unbelievable beats of her own.

The Weeknd applauded Grande in a tweet he posted, that mentions he has witnessed Ariana’s work in action. He wrote that she is a beast on Pro Tools.

The Weeknd and Grande previously collaborated on the songs ‘Love Me Harder’ from 2014, ‘Off The Table’ from 2020 and a remix of ‘Save Your Tears’ from 2021.

Women are underrepresented in popular music, according to a survey released last year. Researchers looked at the gender and race/ethnicity of artists, songwriters and producers across the 800 top songs (taken from the Hot 100 Year-End Billboard Charts) from 2012 to 2019 and discovered that women made up fewer than 23% of artists and 2% of producers.

During his headline set at Coachella Festival 2022 this month, The Weeknd released a slew of new ‘Dawn FM’ songs. He and Swedish House Mafia shared the bill as headliners, replacing Ye, and he performed ‘Sacrifice,’ ‘How Can I Make You Love Me,’ and ‘Out Of Time’ live for the first time.

The Weeknd also performed covers of Ye’s ‘Hurricane’ and other songs from Ty Dolla $ign, Drake and Future.

—Silviya.Y