Random: Ariana Grande Sang About Playing Mario Party And Mario Kart

I really don't have much to say about this but the comments below do So plz grab your popcorn and injoy whatever your gonan read.

She has a good voice but the music she makes is pure trash. But that goes for most pop singers I guess.

@Sandro89
You know, i played her song Break Free on DDR A Arcade, on Expert difficulty level 11 and i got AAA score all the time.
Not really bad choice.

Brie Larson, Ariana Grande, Chrissy Teigen.

You guys are really cornering the Teen Vogue does Nintendo market aren't you. I don't think it actually exists as a market. But you're cornering it all the same.

I first heard about her after the doughnut licking incident.

I'd love to play Mario Party with her. I could be round after work for 6.30

She is a horrible person:

Ariana Grande is "ONE OF"the greatest popstar of today's music ! Her music is some of the best . And this new album of hers is defining history . She is also very kind and she has suffered a lot in the past couple of years. From the Manchester attacks to the death of her ex shortly after they broke up. I will never understand why people would hate her as a person .

I've seen plenty of videos of her being a real nasty ***** of a person. Also I don't care for pop music. But hey.

I wonder what BRIE LARSON thinks about this. Come on, NintendoLife, everyone needs to know!

@Clyde_Radcliffe @Scollurio I'm so glade some people called her out on it I didnt have the Blue shells to.

Oh no Nintendo Life has mentioned someone well known that people will get angry about just because they "hate" them or something. It seems to be a recurring theme with people on here getting angry over the simplest things because they don't deem it worthy enough to be news to them.

@Zenszulu
It's not necessarily hate as it's more to do with Nintendo Life not reporting anything news worthy and instead they give us unnecessary shet like this. Which I won't really call them out for doing, after all Nintendo has been REALLY lazy of late to actually report on anything...

@Blazingburst16 "And this new album of hers is defining history"

LOL, really? 🤔 Is that you Ariande?

@Clyde_Radcliffe Wow it's worse than I remembered. Rude to staff, says on camera that she hates Americans and America and licks doughnut without buying it. If she was a republican supporter, she would have been cancelled. That's the big deciding factor in the entertainment industry in the US.

@Jakiboy what makes anything posted necessary? They can post topics anything they like as long as it is in some way linked to Nintendo or references them. There is no criteria that makes something necessary or not. Also they post plenty of stuff that would probably be news worthy if you don't like this they just can't exactly post news on stuff that doesn't happen to fill up more space to make you feel they are doing more of a job on reporting more news.

@Blazingburst16
Her song Break Free was featured on Dance Dance Revolution A Arcade since 2016.

@Judgedean And she didn't even apologise to the bakery owner who had their food hygiene rating lowered from A to B because of her behaviour.

@Zenszulu
"They can post topics anything they like as long as it is in some way linked to Nintendo or references them."

Laughs in a million Reggie articles despite him retiring from Nintendo years ago and has nothing to do with them anymore
Also I noticed that you ALWAYS defend these articles and parrot the same thing over and over again. People are going to have different opinions about this and a majority of it is always going to be negative, sorry...

@Clyde_Radcliffe
She did that ?? 😲
Gosh....

I'd pay extra for those donuts. 🤷‍♂️

@Jakiboy it's not defending them because that would suggest they shouldn't be here I am simply stating people seem to hate things being posted here that don't interest them. As for Reggie articles well many people still associate him with a successful period at Nintendo so will probably be interested in what he is up to.

thank you nintendo life, very cool

She has one (maybe even two) good song(s) that I actually don't mind, not someone I would go out of my way to listen too, but there are worse singers out there in this day and age.

thanks kate gray for your amazing journalism

@Blazingburst16 Nice fanboyism there, need to post it on a throwaway?

Did you guys know that ariana is a big Nintendo fan and she even has a tattoo of Eevee on her right arm.

@Snatcher
Oh boy, thanks for the warning. Never liked how it always happens in any article about a celebrity.

I don't think I could angry with her, so pretty... then she gone and said that. Dead to me!

They ask readers not to hate on the singer at the beginning of the article and then proceed to use said article to condescendingly make fun of the girl and her "songs".

Also interesting how it's always the same writer who finds this kind of stuff relevant.

@Jakiboy I think the point being made is NintendoLife is gonna report on this stuff and if it's not to your liking, why not just move on to articles that are? And yes, everyone is free to have their opinion on anything they choose. But at the end of the day, why waste your time and energy on something you don't have any interest in? I can honestly tell you there's a ton of stuff Nintendo related on this site that I don't have an interest in (Fire Emblem or Xenoblade being examples) that I just don't even bother acknowledging. I focus my energy on Nintendo related topics I do find interesting.

@UmbreonsPapa
But it's not just "opinions", it's criticism as well. Whether or not it's constructive criticism is your opinion, but people are allowed to give them.

Don't really care for the singer. Just came here for the comments. I was not disappointed.

Eew the dougnut spitter.

@Zuljaras Be careful, this writer constantly posts the responses of her articles on her Twitter just to ridicule them.

My issue with this article isn't the person of subject at all (couldn't really care less to have an opinion on a singer, nor challenge anyone else's). My issue is just how stupid a subject this article is. All it amounts to is that a celebrity said the name of a Nintendo franchise once, and a reactionary article was born for some reason. There's no discussion, no fun little fact derived from it. It literally amounts to nothing.

NL also knew before writing this it was a trash article, clearly. No one puts a disclaimer at first publish if they don't expect people to react poorly to it. Poor showing by them for putting this up, ever worse for claiming abuse before posting.

I actually really enjoy Ariana Grande's music so seeing this news makes me pretty happy.

@Zuljaras didn't realise you are the vocal represenrative of THIS COMMUNITY!

Are there any women that ‘gamers’ actually like?

Slow news day huh?

@nessisonett Yes, there's Lara Croft, Jill Valentine, Zelda (but not the one that talks, only the silent Zeldas), Twintelle, Princess Leia before she got Jedi powers, and all of the women in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. All fine, upstanding women who are universally adored by all true gamers.

Oh wait, you meant REAL women?

@Judgedean I was thinking the same thing she would've been cancelled by now same with cardi b after that whole drugging & robbing men thing

@nessisonett Sure.

Princess Peach, Zelda, Samus Aran, Wendy Cooper, Isabelle, Wii Fit Trainer...

All jokes aside I'm sure most of like plenty of female celebrities and others in the public eye. It's just the two featured on here recently come across as horrible people. Shame!

@Jakiboy I personally think most rational thinking adults are able to identify and properly point out when criticism is constructive. It's not really opinion. It's just basic critical thinking. Looking up at through the comments, post #40 is, in my opinion, a very week constructed criticism of the article and it's issues. Blanket statements like "Ariana Grande or whatever artist is trash and blah blah blah" that's just based on your personal preferences is, in my opinion, not really constructive and adds nothing constructive to the conversation. It's just boasting what you do or don't like.

And that's fine. No one Is required to like everything and everyone. Which isn't really the point. My point being, again, is why waste your time and energy on an article about something or someone you don't like when its easy to ignore and there are probably 5 more articles to that one about things you do care about. It just seems crazy to me

@Clyde_Radcliffe I'm sure some of her fans would have loved to ingest her DNA. Those doughnuts should have been auctioned to the stupidest... I mean highest bidder

It's sad that a disclaimer for this kind of news is necessary nowadays.

@UmbreonsPapa
I wasn't talking specifically about Ariana though, I was talking about Nintendo Life pumping out nonsensical articles such as this one nearly everyday.
Anyway, people can "waste their time and energy", seriously what is up with people on this site having a grudge against people with opposing opinions? You don't have to agree with them or like them but it's called freedom of speech after all...

Peak journalism

@Damo
1. Fair enough, I won't regard your journalistic credibility in such high regard in the future.
2. A lot of the comments against Grande isn't about her music, they are about what an awful person she is as a whole.
3. "but why bother clicking to comment to say so?" Because they can? What? You gonna implement some sort of censorship now because you're not liking their comments?
4. "and that includes stuff like this which shows the astonishing cultural reach the company has right now" They always have. Nintendo doesn't need publicity, everybody knows about them and hell they can ship out an officially licensed marmite paste and the whole world would be praising them to the sky and buy a quadrillion batches.

I really don’t understand the celebrity slander every time this website posts something pop culture-related. Ari is ridiculously talented and resilient, and while she has obviously made some massive mistakes, is the comment section of a video game site really the best place to spew such hatred? It just feels like shouting into the void...

TLDR thanks for that disclaimer at the beginning of the article lol

@Zuljaras I am going to go outside the realm of what this author suggests is sensible and actually comment on this non-article despite not particularly caring for its contents. Unfortunately, I don't believe the person is being instructed to write the above drivel, this is how 'journalists' with a background such as hers are accustomed to working, with all due respect to Ms. Gray, it reflects more on past publications than it does any individual. The sentiment "Is the comment section of a video game site really the best place to spew such hatred" captures it all, really; the answer is no, and by extension neither is a video game site the place for this sort of thing, cultural influence notwithstanding.

"Ariana Grande comments on a Nintendo IP publicly to her millions of social media followers who generally care little for Nintendo and are only there for Grande, many of whom are bot accounts employed by services her record label utilise for marketing purposes" is better suited to a substantial tweet than it is a full-fledged, particularly one-dimensional article. I say this entirely respectfully: if a majority or even just a sizeable number of the regular users of your site consistently do not like the content your website is increasingly (and now flippantly) posting, regardless of how culturally-noteworthy you personally find that content to be, it creates a negative and unnecessarily unpleasant experience for your readers, who otherwise come to sites such as NintendoLife to escape headlines like these and get stuck in with topical, video games-only content, be it news, reviews, etc. It's challenging to post stories you know fully well will generate "hate clicks" almost exclusively and then be honestly put-out when they don't receive an entirely positive reception. People generally aren't in the habit of visiting a website to not read the articles.

I suggest as an otherwise fond user of NintendoLife that some time is spent discerning what might make for a non-article story, perhaps a social media post, and what would be an appropriate topic to devote an article to for a Nintendo-specific fan site. I hope this helps to partly explain why many users might respond somewhat negatively to these articles in a way that is more enlightening than "that's the internet for you."

Don't let her race on doughnut plains!

i can’t believe the hate that’s being given on Ari. She’s like one of the most dopest pop stars rn. My little sister LOVES her and i think it’s cool that she shares her Nintendo love sometimes, it’s kinda relatable to my sister in a way. She loves Pokémon and Mario games.

While I'm disappointed this turned into a PS5 story, I do love the paragraph at the beginning of the article that people seemed to skim over. And by "skim over", I mean completely ignore.

"Before we begin: if you're here to be angry about Ariana Grande, might we suggest reading about something you like instead?"
Half of the people here: I think I'll ignore that

@samuraicop but... I wrote the article you mention as being "of exquisite quality", AS WELL as this one! I contain multitudes, it seems. 😊

@IronMan30 @Doofenshmirtz I know, right?

@Blazingburst16 does she even write her own songs?

@Willsy yeah she writes her own songs and has also written songs for other artists.

Someone popular in a decaying society sung about my hobby. Oh sweet.

@Zuljaras
I think Kate Gray has been doing just fine.

Stay mad

I'm very disappointed in the quality of articles posted here lately. It lowers the standard across the site when this absolutely pointless rubbish is posted. Since Kate came on board, the site has turned in to a copy of Buzzfeed, and we're only a few articles away from it being just another clickbait cess pit.

You've tried to defend your reasons for posting stuff like this, but I have to disagree with them. These articles are not the sort of stuff you used to post, they're just fluff pieces with no discernable quality, and serve no purpose to the community as a whole.

If you have to place a disclaimer as ridiculous as that on an article like this, the article needn't exist at all. Saying "Oh, she has influence and mentioning Nintendo is a big win for us". Seriously? No it isn't, everyone already knows Nintendo, it's a household name. If she mentioned Sellotape, sales in sellotape isn't going to suddenly skyrocket.

Your only reason for this article is "She's a big name, she'll get clicks, that's all", because clearly by hiring a writer like Kate and the topics she has "covered", that's all you care about. You have PushSquare asking what the community would like to see, and on the other side of the coin, you have you guys telling us this is the kind of thing you like to put on the site. It's despicable.

It's such a shame to see such a reputable site tear down everything that made it great.

@antdickens I think you guys do a fine job. I think people tend to forget that major things don't happen in the world of Nintendo everyday yet as a media outlet it's your responsibility to give your readers something to fill the gaps between major announcements and such. I like that you guys aren't overly critical or jaded of gaming as I feel some other sites are and I read a lot of hate in the comments and I just wanted to let you guys know you do a great job. You are people too after all and need to hear that. Especially like Alex, how could you not like Alex, such a happy guy.

In today's episode of "Gamers Being Mad at Pop Culture:” NintendoLife commenters are having a conniption over Singer/Actor/Final Fantasy Brave Exvious Party Member, Ariana Grande.

@antdickens If you started the site then who is Thomas Bowskill? I remember reading some old reviews of his.
I absolutely do not want any of his personal info in any capacity. I’m just curious about the early days of the site.

The version of her song with Nintendo Labo was a work of art.

Since we're talking about Ariana, we might want to make sure that "sackboy's big adventure" is, indeed, a reference to SIE and Sumo Digitals trademark. That seems the least likely possibility.

@Trajan lol,... Yeah... That's pretty much the words out of my mouth there.... Well played.

@KateGray You had way, way, way too much fun penning this one, didn't you?

@Dezzy Either Nintendo is cornering that market by paying them to say these things, or it's genuinely happening as these people are really into the games. One thing is for sure, Nintendolife are nothing to do with it lmao

@Kirbyfan yeah I stumbled across @antdickens first site (and IRC channel... which now lives on as a WhatsApp group) in 2001/2

If I’d have set up the site then it would look distinctly like a nineties site XD. I created lots of initial reviews and articles back in the day (the stats tell me 42 reviews) before the site got to its amazing strength it is now. I think for that trade I spent about three years asking Ant for help on the web scripting modules of my degree.

Pretty cool to have a group of people I met before and during the life of this site that I am still in regular contact with — some from 20 years ago (and now I feel old). Roll on the next 20 years

I was recently in the bathroom and sang a song I just made called Koopa drops a shell. Can I get some buzz on NL?

What about Nicholas Cage? He's great at everything.

I think one day we'll see some sort of weird game that's somehow a mashup of Mario Party and Mario Kart, and they'd call it Mario Karty.

@RandomAfricanGamer thank you for saying this. If I had known this lighthearted weekend article would result in people insulting me personally, I probably would have just gone for a walk instead.

Queen Ariana Grande!! I know people always get fired up about articles like this, but I think they're cool

hi thank ya'll so much for liking my albums and music and i appreciate ya'll so i hope i can tour tour soon but covid so but ilysm 🤍🤍🤍