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Ariana Grande Opens Up to Fans About How Music 'Saved Her Life' in an Emotional Instagram


Ariana Grande is busy preparing for her Sweetener tour, which kicks off in about two weeks on March 18. But before she starts playing stadiums all over the country, she took some time to thank her fans for all of their support during an emotional year.

In a lengthy Instagram post on Saturday night, Grande expressed her gratitude for friends, family, and fans who have stood by her.

“‘Bout to embark on my third tour and am for sure deep as fuck in my feelings and getting my period so…. this is probably gonna be too much,” she wrote. “But I just want to say how grateful I am for my life, for the people in it, for the ups and challenges, for the laughter and the pain, for this music and for the lifelong friendships I’ve made thru making it (that includes my friendship with y’all).”

The singer has had a lot to reckon with recently. She spent a lot of time healing from a terrorist attack that killed multiple fans at her Manchester Arena concert in May 2017. She also ended her short engagement to comedian Pete Davidson, following the death of her ex-boyfriend, rapper Mac Miller. In between, she had to answer to legitimate criticism about how she’s used cultural signifiers in her music, got in a public back-and-forth with the Grammys, and fought/forgave the TV host Piers Morgan. It was a lot, especially in a year in which she released two albums and won her first-ever Grammy.

“I cant really fathom all that has happened over the past few years. I don’t even really know where i’m going with this post but I’m just grateful to be here still. And excited to see you. I’m prolly gonna cry a lot,” she continued. “A few months ago I told my team I wasn’t even in an okay enough place to tour or work at all and my friends, you guys and this music really saved my life and turned everything around.”

Her fans responded with lots of love and support. “I admire you for being such a good, kind, real, positive and very strong person. You’re just perfect,” one fan responded.

Grande was honest about the fact that she’s still working through some difficulties, but her overall message was a testament of how she’s trying to approach the future with a positive outlook.

“I’m still healing but I feel a lot lighter as of late and I think this is really going to be such a beautiful time,” she said.



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Ariana Grande Explains Why She Tweeted 'Trash’ During the Grammys


Ariana Grande didn’t attend the Grammys Sunday night (February 10), but she certainly had the entire Internet talking. She first did this by posting several photos of herself lounging around in the Zac Posen dress she planned on wearing to the ceremony. (Grande was slated to perform, but she opted out after reported creative differences with Grammys producers.) She raised eyebrows during the actual ceremony, though, by tweeting a series of pointed messages after her ex-boyfriend, the late Mac Miller, lost Best Rap Album to Cardi B.

Here’s what happened, according to People. Shortly after Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy scooped up Best Rap Album, Grande tweeted—and then deleted—the words “literal bullshit,” “fuck,” and “trash.” A few fans read this as Grande shading Cardi B, but she later clarified the comments.

“Nothing to do with her. Good for her. I promise. I’m sorry,” Grande tweeted, according to People. She then added, “She’s not at all [trash] and that’s not what I meant and you know that.” Again, all these messages have since been deleted.

Here’s a screen grab of one of Grande’s tweets:

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“It has nothing to do with Cardi,” a source tells People. Rather, Grande is reportedly upset Miller’s parents, Karen Meyer and Mark McCormick, attended the show—per the Grammys’ invitation—and he didn’t win.

When a fan pointed this out on Twitter, Grande replied, “This. This is what I meant. Karen was gonna have a green suit made.” (This tweet has also been deleted.)

Ariana Grande released her fifth studio album, Thank U, Next, this past Friday, February 8. Fans think she references Miller throughout the album, particularly on a song called “Ghostin.” “I know that it breaks your heart when I cry again over him / I know that it breaks your heart when I cry again / ‘Stead of ghostin’ him,” she sings, which some theorize is her alluding to missing Miller when she was with her most recent ex, Pete Davidson. Stream it here.





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Ariana Grande Didn't Go to the 2019 Grammys, But She Still Wore Her Zac Posen Gown


While the 2019 Grammys were a star-studded event, there was one pop star noticeably missing: Ariana Grande. She was originally supposed to perform at the ceremony, but pulled out following a creative dispute with the show’s producers—and it caused drama. (You can catch up on all of it here.) But Grande already had a dress picked out—custom made, even—and she wasn’t about to let it hang in her closet, unworn.

On Sunday night, Grande got all dressed up in the gown Zac Posen made for her and staged a photoshoot, presumably in her apartment, to capture all the angles of this look.

“when @zacposen makes u a custom gown it doesn’t matter if you’re singing or not… thank u,” she captioned one image.

Even though she wasn’t in attendance, Grande did take home a Grammy, for Best Pop Vocal Album.

Because she wasn’t there to accept the award in person, she shared her thanks on Instagram: “I know I’m not there tonight (trust, I tried and still truly wished it had worked out TBH) and I know i said I try not to put too much weight into these things …. but fuck …….this is wild and beautiful. Thank you so much.”

The trophy is nice, obviously. But judging by how fun this impromptu shoot looked, Grande had a winning Sunday evening regardless of whether she won her category. May we all bring this energy with us into Monday.





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Ariana Grande Wrote a Version of 'Thank U, Next' Where She Ends Up With Pete Davidson


Ariana Grande dropped Thank U, Next on Friday, and the album’s already a hit. Within minutes of its drop, fans started dissecting all the lyrics—especially on the heartbreaking single “Ghostin’.” These Internet sleuths think it’s about Grande’s complex emotions about Mac Miller’s death while dating Pete Davidson. Then there’s the title track, “Thank U, Next,” which really lays it out there when it comes to her exes.

But Grande has been working so hard on her album—she reportedly turned it around in two weeks—that we haven’t gotten a whole lot of backstory on all of the songs yet. As it turns out, there’s even more to “Thank U, Next” than the lyrics imply: The singer revealed in a recent interview on The Zach Sang Show that she wrote multiple versions of the song, including one where she winds up with Davidson.

Yep, you read that right.

First, a quick refresher on the lyrics—if you don’t have them memorized yet, that is. She name checks each of her exes in the song (which they got to preview before it dropped).

Thought I’d end up with Sean

But he wasn’t a match

Wrote some songs about Ricky

Now I listen and laugh

Even almost got married

And for Pete, I’m so thankful

Wish I could say, “Thank you” to Malcolm

‘Cause he was an angel

Things were in a tricky spot with Davidson when she was writing the song—they were ending their relationship, after all—so she decided to cover her bases. (Smart!) Grande says she wrote alternate lyrics, one of which didn’t name the exes.

“I was also trying to be protective,” she said in the interview. “In my relationship [with Pete] at the time, things were like up and down and on and off, and so I didn’t know what was going to happen and then we got back together, so I had to make a different version of it, and then we broke up again, so we ended up going with that verse.”

“There’s a version where I was getting married, there’s a version where I’m not getting married, there’s a version with nothing—we’re not talking about anything,” she added. “But we all knew that the first version was gonna be the version we ultimately went with.”

Grande added that she was, understandably, nervous about putting such an intimate song out into the world. “It was a big risk and a very scary thing to do, because it is my life,” she says. “I understand that to a lot of people, I’m not a real person, or it’s easy to just kind of like see me as like, a song or a picture or like, a thing that kind of exists in their head and they know what they know and that’s it. But at the end of the day, these are people and relationships. It’s real shit to me. It is real life and I spent a lot of time with each of those people…it was like scary to put in a song.”

Arianators, you can check out the full interview, below. She goes in-depth about how she made the album—but get some popcorn ready, because it’s about an hour and a half long.

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Here's What Ariana Grande Really Thinks About Pete Davidson and Kate Beckinsale Dating


Earlier this year, rumors started swirling that Kate Beckinsale and Pete Davidson were dating. It was the most surprising relationship news to happen since, well, Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande last summer. Grande’s kept mum about Davidson and Beckinsale, with a source telling Us Weekly she’s not “bothered” by the relationship at all. “The focus is entirely on the album coming out on Friday, and [she] can’t wait for fans to hear,” they said.

But the “Thank U, Next” singer just broke her silence on Davidson and Beckinsale for real. A TMZ cameraman caught Grande walking in Culver City Thursday night (February 7), and he asked her, straight up, what she thinks about Beckinsale and Davidson dating.

“So cute!” you hear Grande faintly say as she enters a building. Watch the video for yourself, below.

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Grande just released her fifth studio album Thank U, Next on Friday, February 8. It’s a fun, danceable record filled with sultry slow-jams and lyrics that may (or may not) be about Davidson. If her interview with TMZ is any indication, there are no hard feelings between the two—but here’s a quick breakdown of all the places Grande might be referencing Davidson on Thank U, Next:

“Needy.” “Lately I’ve been on a rollercoaster / Tryna get a hold of my emotions / But all that I know, is I need you close” — This could be a reference to the media circus that surrounded Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande’s relationship last summer.

“Ghostin’.” Fans have really latched onto this song and theorize it might be about Grande thinking about her ex-boyfriend, the late Mac Miller, when she was with Davidson. Grande said on Twitter the song centers on “feeling badly for the person you’re with bc you love somebody else,” and the lyrics certainly suggest that. “Oh, I wish he were here instead / No one that living in your head / He just comes to visit me / When I’m dreaming every now and then (And then),” she sings.

“Bloodline.” “Just wanna have a good time, yuh / Ain’t no need to apologize, no / But you gon’ have to let this sh*t go,” Grande sings on this uptempo track. Remember, her relationship with Davidson moved so quickly and, ultimately, led to an engagement. The next step would’ve been marriage, but they pumped the brakes before it reached that point. “Bloodline” could be referring to that situation.

Christopher Rosa is the entertainment writer at Glamour. Follow him on Twitter at @chrisrosa92.





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Ariana Grande Explains the Actual Reason She Isn't Performing at the 2019 Grammys


Much to the disappointment of her fans, Ariana Grande is not performing at the 2019 Grammys this weekend despite being on the original lineup. While that’s a bummer—especially because she’s been one of the most prolific artists over the past year—it’s not exactly a bombshell story.

Well, at least, it wasn’t until today, February 7, when Grande took to social media to set the record straight as to why she’s not taking the stage on Sunday. It all started with an interview that Grammys executive producer gave to the Associated Press. “As it turned out when we finally got the point where we thought maybe it would work, she felt it was too late for her to pull something together for sure,” he said. “And it’s too bad. She’s a great artist. And I’d love to get her in the show this year.”

In response to this, Grande tweeted a screenshot of that portion of the story with the caption, “mhmmm here it is ! ‘too late for her to pull something together……'”

She went on to explain her side of how these negotiations went down. “I’ve kept my mouth shut but now you’re lying about me. i can pull together a performance over night and you know that, Ken,” she wrote. “It was when my creativity & self expression was stifled by you, that i decided not to attend. i hope the show is exactly what you want it to be and more.”

“I offered 3 different songs. it’s about collaboration. it’s about feeling supported,” she continued. “It’s about art and honesty. not politics. not doing favors or playing games. it’s just a game y’all.. and i’m sorry but that’s not what music is to me.”

Ironically, Grande says she “passed a Grammy’s bus with my face on it typing those.” Despite the controversy over her performance, she’s “still grateful for the acknowledgement this year.”

Now that she’s set the record straight, we can thankfully all turn our focus to more important Ariana Grande matters—like the release of her new album tomorrow.





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