K Bye For Now (SWT Live) (stylized in all lowercase) is Ariana Grande's first live album, released on December 23, 2019, through Republic Records.[1] The album was recorded between March and October 2019, and features Grande's set from her Sweetener World Tour.
Background
On October 17, 2019, Grande revealed on Twitter that she was working on a live album from the Sweetener World Tour and shared a photo revealing that she was mixing "God Is A Woman".[2]
On November 5, 2019, Grande tweeted a snippet of "R.E.M" from the live album.[3]
On December 10, 2019, Grande confirmed that the album would be released before the end of 2019 and that only content from the first two legs of the tour would be featured.[4][5] She also confirmed that "Get Well Soon", "Goodnight N Go" and "Only 1" would all be on the album.[6][7]
On December 11, 2019, the album became available to pre-save and the track listing was revealed.[8]
Trivia
- With 32 tracks and a total length of more than an hour and a half, the album is the longest body of work Grande has ever released.
- All songs are stylized in lower case as well as sweetener and thank u next
- The interludes of Close To You and Adore was cut at the end of the album.
- The childhood Interlude (Young Ariana recreating a scene from Bruce Almighty) was cut at the end of the album.
- The fragment of the movie The First Wives Club as an intro for Be alright was cut at the end of the album.
- One Last Time, Bloodline, December, True Love, Wit It This Christmas, Santa Tell Me, Moonlight, Honeymoon Avenue, MONOPOLY, Got Her Own, boyfriend, Rule the World, Give it Up, I Think You're Swell, weren't included in the album but have their audio and video recorded in HD.
Track listing
All tracks produced by Ariana Grande and Natural.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Raindrops (An Angel Cried)" | Bob Gaudio | 0:43 |
| 2. | "God Is A Woman" | Ariana Grande, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Rickard Göransson | 3:33 |
| 3. | "Bad Idea" | Grande, Martin, Salmanzadeh, Kotecha | 3:32 |
| 4. | "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" | Grande, Martin, Salmanzadeh, Kotecha, Kandi Burruss, Kevin Briggs | 3:43 |
| 5. | "R.E.M" | Pharrell Williams | 2:57 |
| 6. | "Be Alright" | Grande, Tommy Brown, Victoria Monét, Khaled Rohaim, Nicholas Audino, Lewis Hughes, Willie Tafa | 2:54 |
| 7. | "Sweetener" | Williams, Grande | 2:54 |
| 8. | "Successful" | Williams | 2:05 |
| 9. | "Side To Side" (featuring Nicki Minaj) | Salmanzadeh, Martin, Onika Maraj, Alexander Kronlund, Kotecha, Grande | 4:20 |
| 10. | "7 Rings" | Grande, Monét, Tayla Parx, Njomza Vitia, Kimberly Krysiuk, Brown, Michael Foster, Charles Anderson, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II | 3:46 |
| 11. | "Love Me Harder" (with The Weeknd) | Martin, Kotecha, Peter Svensson, Ali Payami, Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Grande | 1:23 |
| 12. | "Breathin" | Grande, Salmanzadeh, Peter Svensson, Kotecha | 3:28 |
| 13. | "Needy" | Grande, Monét, Parx, Brown | 2:54 |
| 14. | "Fake Smile" | Andrew Wansel, Nathan Perez, Priscilla Renea, Kennedi Lykken, Justin Tranter, Grande, Joseph W. Frierson, Mary Lou Frierson | 3:25 |
| 15. | "Make Up" | Grande, Brian Malik Baptiste, Tayla Parx, Tommy Brown, Monét | 2:18 |
| 16. | "Right There" (featuring Big Sean) | Al Sherrod Lambert, Grande, Carmen Reece, Harmony Samuels, J Bereal, J. J-Doe Smith, Jeff Lorber, Sean Anderson | 1:39 |
| 17. | "You'll Never Know" | Antonio Dixon, Babyface, Khristopher Riddick-Tynes, Leon Thomas III | 1:21 |
| 18. | "Break Your Heart Right Back" (featuring Childish Gambino) | Andrew "Pop" Wansel, Bernard Edwards, Christopher Wallace, Diddy, Donald Glover, Kirby Dockery, Mason Betha, Nile Rodgers, Steven Jordan, Warren "Oak" Felder | 2:14 |
| 19. | "NASA" | Grande, Monét, Parx, Brown, Anderson | 3:05 |
| 20. | "Tattooed Heart" | Babyface, Riddick-Tynes, Thomas III, Dixon, Matt Squire, Grande, Sean Foreman | 3:23 |
| 21. | "Only 1" | Grande, Brown, Travis Sayles, Monét, Dennis Jenkins | 2:42 |
| 22. | "Goodnight N Go" | Brown, Anderson, Foster, Grande, Monét | 3:08 |
| 23. | "Get Well Soon" | Williams, Grande | 3:27 |
| 24. | "In My Head (Interlude)" | Wansel, Grande, Perez, Brittany "Chi" Coney, Denisia Andrews, Lindel Deon Nelson Jr., Roberts | 2:30 |
| 25. | "Everytime" | Grande, Salmanzadeh, Kotecha, Martin | 2:11 |
| 26. | "The Light Is Coming" (featuring Nicki Minaj) | Williams, Maraj, Grande | 2:10 |
| 27. | "Into You" | Grande, Martin, Kotecha, Kronlund, Salmanzadeh | 2:59 |
| 28. | "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" | Cole Porter | 1:47 |
| 29. | "Dangerous Woman" | Johan Carlsson, Ross Golan, Martin | 3:53 |
| 30. | "Break Free" | Anton Zaslavski, Martin, Kotecha | 2:31 |
| 31. | "No Tears Left To Cry" | Grande, Martin, Salmanzadeh, Kotecha | 3:53 |
| 32. | "Thank U, Next" | Grande, Monét, Parx, Vitia, Krysiuk, Brown, Foster, Anderson | 6:29 |
| Total length: | 1:32:59 | ||
References
- ↑ The Fader - Ariana Grande drops live album k bye for now
- ↑ Twitter - Ariana Grande - so .... i got a bunch of my live vocals from tour on my laptop thanks to johnny and toby 💻 about to start comping thru and picking my favorite adlibs / performance moments on this flight ... just in case u want a live album one day 🎙🌪 ☁️
- ↑ Twitter - Ariana Grande - but listen to you.ᶦ ˡᵒᵛᵉ ʸᵒᵘᵘᵘᵘᵎᵎᵎᵎ
- ↑ Twitter - Ariana Grande - mhmm
- ↑ Twitter - Ariana Grande - nothing from this most recent leg unfortunately bc of timing but
- ↑ Twitter - Ariana Grande - !
- ↑ Twitter - Ariana Grande - mhmm
- ↑ Twitter - Ariana Grande - swt live 🌑 available to pre save now arianagrande.lnk.to/swtlive