Ariana Grande says she’ll “always” make music — but additionally needs to unfold her wings.
The “Wicked” star introduced Wednesday whereas discussing her profession, which incorporates two Grammys, six No. 1 albums and a number of Guinness World Data that the following decade will see her pivot away from pop and again to her unique ardour: musical theater.
“I’m going to say something so scary,” Grande informed “Las Culturistas” podcast hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. “It’s going to scare the absolute shit out of my fans and everyone. I love them, and they will deal, and we will be here forever.”
“I’m always going to make music,” the 31-year-old continued. “I’m always going to go on stage. I’m always going to do pop stuff, I pinky promise. But I don’t think doing it at the rate that I’ve been doing for the past 10 years is where I see the next 10 years.”
Grande has been on a whirlwind press tour for the upcoming adaptation of Broadway’s “Wicked,” wherein she performs a benevolent witch reverse Cynthia Erivo’s titular one, and stated Wednesday that it reminded her of how necessary this artistic outlet actually is for her.
“I love musical theater, reconnecting with this part of myself who started in musical theater and who loves comedy,” stated Grande. “And it heals me to do that, finding roles to use these parts of myself and put them in little homes and characters and bits and voices and songs.”
Many had been apparently confused when Grande all of a sudden modified her voice fully mid-interview in June whereas selling the movie, however the singer later defined that she spent “a long time playing a character every single day” and has a extremely massive, educated vocal vary.
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Grande additionally slammed the double commonplace on the time of male actors being praised for his or her “brilliant” bodily transformations whereas ladies like her are positioned “under such a microscope” of judgment and stated that it’s “a strange thing” to personally expertise.
Whereas the previous little one star has launched seven studio albums since 2013, Grande did get her begin on Broadway within the musical “13” when she was nonetheless a young person — and stated Wednesday that the song-centric theatrical vocation remains to be her true “heart.”
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Nevertheless, Grande assured her devoted followers that she’ll by no means flip her again on music completely: “Art also is what feeds me — in whatever capacity it is. I’ll always be doing and creating six different things at once. I don’t see that going anywhere. I just see it shifting.”
