Um, Ariana Grande Just Shaded Her Own Albums

On the heels of her fourth album, Sweetener, Ariana Grande is looking back at her past records, and not everything she has to say is positive.

In an interview with Troye Sivan for Paper Magazine, the 25-year-old singer said that as much as she has an appreciation for her past work, it was also a means to an end: She used hits like "Into You" and "Problem" to build her platform so that she could make the music she really wanted to be making.

"I feel like Dangerous Woman was a grown-up My Everything, and [Sweetener] is a grown-up Yours Truly. And with all due respect to My Everything and Dangerous Woman, I feel like I played the game a lot on those two albums," she explained. "I wanted to make dope records that would put me in a place where I could then make whatever the f--k I wanted. I kind of played the game a little bit. All my favorite songs from those two albums are not the singles, like they aren't at all."

She then backtracked a bit, saying that it's not that she doesn't like those albums, but that Sweetener just feels more like who she is.

"Am I insulting my own work?" she asked. "I don't think so, because I really like it all. But this just feels closer to home, you know what I mean? It feels like now the mask is off, let's talk."