Melissa Kacar

Dangerous Woman continues to be one of the defining albums of Ariana Grande 's career. This record solidified her place in pop music history and delivered a run of some of the best and biggest hits of the decade. At this point in her career, she was fully taking over pop music, and this album truly solidified her status as the defining voice of a generation. On "Side To Side" , Nicki Minaj ends her verse with a proclamation that "Young Ariana run pop", which has only gone on to be more relevant in the decade to follow. In terms of pure pop aesthetics, Dangerous Woman still stands as the quintessential era of her career in so many ways, and is anchored by some of the strongest track runs she's ever released. It followed the classic hits that made up her 2014 sophomore album My Everything , and it built on that momentum with an even more fierce and empowered stance.  The branding and iconography of the album's cover is also an iconic piece of her career ...

At the heart of it, "The One That Got Away" is about yearning for a first love, and maybe even more than that, the yearning for a version of themselves that no longer exists and is forever suspended in a different moment in time. Originally titled "In Another Life", Katy Perry describes the wild days of their youth with memories recalled in vivid detail.  "Summer after high school, when we first met, we'd make out in your Mustang to Radiohead and on my eighteenth birthday, we got matching tattoos," she sings in the opening verse. "Used to steal your parents' liquor and climb to the roof, talked about our future like we had a clue, never planned that one day, I'd be losing you".  Is it possible for one of the biggest albums in pop history to still have an underrated song? In many ways, that's exactly what "The One That Got Away" is for Teenage Dream . It has really sweet lyricism that shows another side of Katy's a...