My Everything

The sophomore album where the ponytail became a business plan: Max Martin and Zedd on one wing, Big Sean and The Weeknd on the other, and “Problem”’s horn stabs announcing that the doo-wop throwback of her debut was over. My Everything is Grande picking pop domination over nostalgia — and getting it.

Reviewers called it scattered and mostly forgave it, because inside the sprawl sat four or five singles nobody could argue with. Time has been kinder to its bench strength than its coherence — “One Last Time” alone outlived albums that beat it in year-end polls.