My Everything (Ariana Grande album) snippet on August 4. Twenty days before the album's release, Grande released a preview of "Love Me Harder", which features Canadian recording artist The Weeknd, onto her Instagram profile. On August 20, four songs from the album, "Why Try", "Be My Baby", "Love Me Harder", and "Just a Little Bit of Your Heart", were released courtesy of MTV. On August 24, Grande opened the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards with "Break Free" and then later appeared to perform "Bang Bang" with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj. Following her performance on the show, "My Everything" was released worldwide on August 25,
Only (Nicki Minaj song) a sappy tearjerker, sorry I’m not sorry." Neither Nicki Minaj nor Osborne responded to criticism that the video was released on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht. Nicki Minaj tweeted that Osborne was influenced by the "Metalocalypse" Dethklok music video for "The Gears" as well as "Sin City" when creating the music video. Brandon Small, creator of "Metalocalypse" responded to the comparison, stating that "They seem to be confused about art" before deconstructing the meaning behind both videos. He also added that he does not believe Nicki Minaj had poor intentions. The accompanying music video for "Only", which was directed by