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Ariana Grande Shut Down a Troll Who Accused Her of Using Autotune in Concerts


On Friday, August 30, Ariana Grande defended her vocal abilities after a hater called her out for possibly auto-tuning her voice. The “Thank U, Next” hitmaker, who is currently on the European leg of her Sweetener world tour, shared a snippet of herself on Instagram singing “Breathin” at one of her concerts. However, one person decided to question whether she can hold a note for that long. Grande really did not appreciate the accusation, so she clapped back in epic proportion—making it clear she’s just relying on her pipes.

“It sounds like autotune and probably not live. I mean you are a great singer and I love your voice and your songs but this doesn’t sound live,” the person wrote under her Instagram post.

“naw, with all due respect I could do this in your living room for you, fam. with no sound mixing or help at all,” Grande replied in the comments section.

“I could do it on broadway (and did). I can do it in the shower. it’s my gift / it’s why I’m here. I sing 30+ songs a night. every word. it’s my thing. let me shine like damn,” she added.

Grande’s clapback came shortly after she was forced to cancel a meet-and-greet with fans in Belgium due to mental health reasons. According to a screenshot taken by HuffPost UK, the singer announced the cancellation on her Instagram Story on Friday (August 30) ahead of her concert.

In the statement, she shared that her “anxiety and depression have been at an all-time high lately” and that she would rather “preserve her energy for the show.”

The pop star, who has been notably candid about her struggles with mental health and about how therapy “saved her life,” then opened up what she’s going through, telling fans that sometimes the way she feels is out of her control.

“Hi my loves,” Grande allegedly wrote. “Time for some honesty. My depression and anxiety have been at an all-time high lately. I have been giving you all I’ve got and trying to push through as hard as I can and mask it.”

“Today has been an extra rough one. After a handful of panic attacks, I feel like the wisest decision would be to not do soundcheck party or [meet-and-greet] today and preserve my energy for the show,” she continued. “I don’t want to rush through our time together or seem shaky. I like spending actual time with you and I won’t be able to be present or give you the best of me today.”

“I wish I had control over these attacks but as anybody with anxiety or depression understands, sometimes you can only operate on its terms and not your own,” Grande added.



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Ariana Grande Dyed Her Ponytail Purple — Photos


Ariana Grande’s been playing a lot with styling her signature ponytail, most recently adding a healthy dose of ’60s-era flounce to it. Now, she’s gone a step further and changed the color entirely.

The artist’s longtime hairstylist Chris Appleton posted a photo of Grande during pre-performance prep on Instagram in which she’s sporting a purple skirt, purple tank top, purple fingerless gloves and, yes, purple hair. “Lavender pony’s change lives,” he captioned the photo.

Grande makes no secret of her love of hair extensions, but it appears as though her (IRL shoulder-length) hair has actually been dyed a cool lavender-gray. About an inch of brown hair remains at the root, while the rest of her ponytail goes from lavender-gray to lavender-blonde to pure pastel.

If Grande did in fact make the move towards rainbow hair, she’s hardly the first celeb to choose Appleton for the job. He’s taken Kim Kardashian from pink to brown and back again more times than we can count and just so happens to be the mastermind behind this ice-blue shade.

Fans are fawning over the new look in the comment section, with some already planning to try out purple themselves. “Gorgeous as always!” added one commenter. “Purple perfection,” wrote another.

With Grande’s career moving at the speed of light, we doubt she has much time to sit around bleaching, coloring, and toning her hair to this pastel shade very often, so it’s hard to predict how long this color will stay around. One thing’s for sure though: Even when she goes back to brunette, her ponytail is coming with her.

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Twitter Seems Pretty Convinced That Ariana Grande's Dating Her 'Boyfriend' Collaborator, Mikey Foster


On Friday (August 2), Ariana Grande dropped her new song, “Boyfriend”, which she collaborated on with the band Social House. Along with it, she dropped a music video that portrays her and one of the group’s members, Mikey Foster, as love interests. It didn’t take long for the video, and the couple’s history of collaborating, to spark dating rumors—and now, people on Twitter are fully convinced the “Thank U, Next” singer has a new boyfriend.

Ahead of its release, Grande explained the concept behind the track on Twitter: “We wanted to make something uplifting that captures that feeling of being afraid to take the leap & trust, being afraid of being hurt or feeling like you won’t be enough for that person…but also how it feels to have a crippling crush on someone.”

“I feel like this song captures a common theme in the lives of so many people i know! People want to feel love but don’t want to define their relationship & have trouble fully committing or trusting or allowing themselves to fully love someone. even tho they want to,” she added in a second tweet.

“Boyfriend” isn’t the first time the two have worked together professionally: They also collaborated on “7 Rings” and “Thank U, Next,” with Foster and his bandmate Scootie Anderson producing and co-writing the tracks with Grande.

Despite their professional history—or partly because of it—a lot of fans seem to think “Boyfriend” is actually about her relationship with the singer. The two are currently on the road together too: Social House is touring with Grande at the moment.

Fans were also quick to point out that Foster posted a heartfelt tribute to the pop star on her birthday in June.



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The Inspiration for Ariana Grande’s New Song Is So Relatable


Ariana Grande has done it again, people. The Thank U, Next singer has unleashed yet another bop into the world. This one’s called “Boyfriend,” and it was cowritten by the duo Social House, with whom she frequently collaborates. Sonically it’s right on par with the songs she released on both the Sweetener and Thank U, Next albums: soulful and R&B-tinged with an incredibly catchy pop chorus. I’ve already listened to it 15 times, and I haven’t even had breakfast yet.

Fans shouldn’t read too much into the lyrics on this one. There don’t appear to be any hidden references to Grande’s ex-boyfriends the way there were on the Thank U, Next album. Rather, this breezy track is all about the push and pull of being casual with someone but wanting more. “You ain’t my boyfriend (Boyfriend) / And I ain’t your girlfriend (Girlfriend) / But you don’t want me to see nobody else,” Grande sings in the chorus.

Grande took to Twitter on Thursday night, August 1, and revealed the inspiration behind the song. “Well, I feel like this song captures a common theme in the lives of so many people I know,” Grande wrote. “People want to feel love but don’t want to define their relationship and have trouble fully committing or trusting or allowing themselves to fully love someone even though they want to.”

She continued, “We wanted to make something uplifting that captures that feeling of being afraid to take the leap and trust, being afraid of being hurt or feeling like you won’t be enough for that person…but also how it feels to have a crippling crush on someone.”

And as if the song weren’t enough, Grande also dropped the video for “Boyfriend.” In it Grande and Michael “Mikey” Foster from Social House play jealous friends with benefits who get inexplicably angry when they see the other flirting with someone else. At one point Grande pulls out a literal bow and arrow and…well, just watch it for yourself, below. The 2020 VMAs is already shaking.

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Naturally, fans are living for both this song and video:

Thank you, Ariana Grande, for blessing my weekend with yet another banger.



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Ariana Grande Reveals How Mac Miller's Death Led to Her Thank U, Next Album


Ariana Grande has never been the kind of pop star to shy away from being vulnerable. She shares her highs and her lows with her fans regularly on social media and isn’t afraid to cry on stage if she needs to. And she continues her transparency in a new interview with Vogue magazine, where no topic—from Manchester to Pete Davidson—seemed off-limits.

Some of the most heartbreaking moments in the interview come as she discusses the aftermath of her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller’s death. (He passed away in September 2018 due to an accidental overdose.) At one point the writer, Rob Haskell, asks Grande “whether it is fair to call [her album] Thank U, Next a response to Miller’s death.” She gets teary and replies, “It’s just hard to hear it so plainly put.”

She says that after Miller’s death, her friends in New York City rallied around her and suggested maybe recording some music. “My friends know how much solace music brings me, so I think it was an all-around, let’s-get-her-there type situation,” she said. “But if I’m completely honest, I don’t remember those months of my life because I was (a) so drunk and (b) so sad. I don’t really remember how it started or how it finished, or how all of a sudden there were 10 songs on the board.”

“I think that this is the first album and also the first year of my life where I’m realizing that I can no longer put off spending time with myself, just as me,” she continued. “I’ve been boo’d up my entire adult life. I’ve always had someone to say goodnight to. So Thank U, Next was this moment of self-realization. It was this scary moment of ‘Wow, you have to face all this stuff now. No more distractions. You have to heal all this shit.’ ”

Grande says her Coachella performance was also emotionally-charged because of the memories of Miller that came with it. “I never thought I’d even go to Coachella,” she said. “I was always a person who never went to festivals and never went out and had fun like that. But the first time I went was to see Malcolm perform, and it was such an incredible experience. I went the second year as well, and I associate…heavily…it was just kind of a mindfuck, processing how much has happened in such a brief period.”



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Ariana Grande Ditched Her Ponytail for the First Time in Months, and Twitter Lost It


Ariana Grande is recognized for her gravity-defying ponytail almost as often as her Grammy-winning bops and cloud-colored Instagram. So when she decides to take her hair down from its usual pedestal, we notice.

Well, it looks like the singer is making a concerted effort to let her hair down more often this summer. On the Sweetener World Tour, Grande has ditched her signature high ponytail for pin-straight, loose hair several nights in a row. It’s the first time she’s been seen with this hairstyle since 2018, when she wore it down for the MTV VMAs. Naturally, fans have a lot to say about it.

The new-old look kicked off on the Chicago stop of her tour on Friday night (June 7). There, she posted a backstage snapshot from the tour on Instagram, where she’s seen in a plaid tour costume and waist-length, straight hair. The caption was about her pre-show snack of choice (blueberries, FYI), but the comments largely focused on her surprising hairstyle. “This hair is EVERYTHING,” user ponyy_boyy wrote.

Next, ahead of her performance in Nashville, Grande shared another snap with her hair down. This time, she wrote about fellow singer Miley Cyrus‘ performance on Black Mirror season 5 before acknowledging her out-of-the-ordinary hairstyle. “also my hair is down again,” she said.

And she’s not putting it back up anytime soon: On Saturday night’s stop in Atlanta, Grande’s ponytail was nowhere to be found.

With such a large spotlight trained on her hair—a silhouette of her ponytail has its own Givenchy campaign, for goodness’ sake—fans couldn’t contain their excitement at seeing Grande try something different.

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