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The Way (Ariana Grande song)

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"The Way"
Song

"The Way" is the second single by American singer-songwriter and actress Ariana Grande. The song features American Rapper Mac Miller. The single was released on March 25, 2013 through Republic Records. Although it is her second single, It is considered the first since she is not sure whether or not her first single Put Your Hearts Up will be on the album or not.

Composition

After being tweeted by Mac Miller in October, the two became friends, and eventually started writing songs together. In December they released a cover of the classic Christmas song Baby, It's Cold Outside. After a while they wrote more songs. In January 2013 Ariana called Mac and asked him to be in one of her songs, and a music video to go along with it. He agreed to do so after he finished touching up his mixtape

Recording

The song was recorded in January 2013, with Mac filling in his parts in late January. Ariana stated on twitter and in various interviews that she is in the studio every night in January and February after working on her TV show Sam & Cat.[1]

Release

On the week of March 18 - 22, Ariana went on Radio across America, visiting stationa in Tampa, Florida, New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. She also visited Radio Disney on March 22. The song was released on March 26, 2013[2][3], although an Un-mastered version was leaked against her wishes on to Tumblr and Youtube on March 21. On March 25, the song was surprisingly released on to iTunes.[4] After only 1 hour of its release, the song was on the iTunes top 100 at #97, after another hour it was at #67 where it sat until 12:00 pm when it shot down to #50.

Music Video

The Music video was filmed on February 10th and 11th. On March 16th, the first teaser for the song was released on to her Youtube page.[5][6][7] The second teaser was released on Ryan Seacrest' website on March 18th, and on Arianas page on March 21st.[8] The full video will be released on March 26.

Track Listing

  • Digital Download
  1. "The Way (Feat. Mac Miller)" - 3:38

References