page_title: Sweetener (song)
section_title: Background and release
hierarchical_section_title: Sweetener (song) / Background and release
caption_attribution_description: English: American singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams arrives on the red carpet for a screening of the film “Hidden Figures” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016 in Washington DC. The film is based on the book of the same title, by Margot Lee Shetterly, and chronicles the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – African-American women working at NASA as “human computers,” who were critical to the success of John Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission in 1962.
context_page_description: "Sweetener" is a song by American singer Ariana Grande from her fourth studio album of the same name, released in 2018. The song was written by Grande and its producer Pharrell Williams.
context_section_description: It was written by Ariana Grande and Pharrell Williams who also handled the production. Grande's vocals were recorded by Sam Holland and Noah Passovoy at MXM Studios in Los Angeles, California, with Jeremy Lertola providing recording engineer assistance. Phill Tan mixed the track, and Josh Cadwin was the audio engineer, with Andrew Coleman and Mark Larson as the recording engineer. Randy Merrill later mastered the song at Sterling Sound in New York City, New York.
  The song was first teased in Grande's "No Tears Left to Cry" music video, along with other songs. Grande posted a picture of herself listening to the song on her instagram story. On July 21, 2018, a paparazzi leaked a snippet of Grande playing the song in her car, later that day Grande confirmed the snippet on her Twitter.
caption: Pharrell Williams (pictured in 2016) co-wrote and produced the track.
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