Dangerous Woman

The album where she stopped auditioning: a leather-bunny cover, a title track that swings like a Bond theme, and the first full record where the voice and the persona finally belong to the same adult. Dangerous Woman is the pivot from pop prodigy to pop auteur-in-waiting — the last album before Manchester changed what her name meant.

Her best notices to that point — critics who’d shrugged at the sprawl of the last one heard focus here, and “Into You” became a rare consensus object: the deep-cut single every review singled out as the argument for taking her seriously.