My Hair
2020 audio track by Ariana Grande
"My Hair" is a song by American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande from her sixth studio album Positions (2020). The song was written by Grande, Victoria Monét, and Tayla Parx, with production by Tommy Brown and Scott Storch, and additional production by Anthony M. Jones and Charles "Scootie" Anderson. It was released by Republic Records on October 30, 2020, as the eighth track on the former's sixth studio album Positions. It is a mid-tempo R&B and neo soul song about Grande becoming intimate with her lover by allowing them to see a different side of her by touching her hair. A live performance music video of "My Hair" was released on July 14, 2021.
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[Hair] definitely is [intimate and personal], especially when your hair kind of is something that you use to differentiate, you know what I mean? My real hair, which is the humungous, curly, curly poof, is kind of, I don’t know… so few people get to see it and it's cute, and it reminds me of me as a kid…it's who I am privately. I think that’s kind of what I envisioned that song being about, is because it's like such an intimate thing to be just like curly shower head. The hair for me is such a guard, character facade type thing, and it has had its own evolution, but it has always been this kind of costume piece."My Hair" is two minutes and 38 seconds. Musically, the song is described as a "warm, retro" R&B and neo soul track blending elements of jazz in its instrumentation and chord progression.
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