Is Ariana Grande announcing “thank u, next” to pop song?
The diva at the back of chart-topping hits equivalent to “7 Rings,” “Positions” and “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” discoverable her plans to crack independent from the common grind of her pop occupation later starring in “Wicked,” the big-screen adaptation of the liked Broadway musical that hits theaters Nov. 22.
“I’m gonna say something so scary — it’s gonna scare the absolute s–t out of my fans and everyone, but I love them, and they’ll deal,” Grande, 31, mentioned at the unedited episode of the “Las Culturistas” podcast hosted by means of her “Wicked” co-star Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.
“I’m always going to make music, I’m always going to go onstage, I’m always going to do pop stuff, I pinky promise,” she persisted. “But I don’t think doing it at the rate I’ve been doing it for the past 10 years is where I see the next 10 years.”
If truth be told, enjoying Glinda in “Wicked” has led Grande to rediscover her old flame: musical theater.
“It is my heart,” mentioned the the Grammy-winning singer, who, at 15, were given her get started on Broadway within the musical “13” sooner than happening to grow to be a Nickelodeon megastar in “Victorious.”
“Reconnecting with this part of myself who started in musical theater, and who loves comedy … it heals me to do that,” mentioned Grande, noting the praise of “finding roles to use these parts of myself and put them in little homes and characters and bits and voices and songs.”
Certainly, remodeling into Glinda has made Grande want for extra performing roles the place she too can flex her making a song talents.
“Whatever makes sense, or whatever roles we see fit, or where I could really do a good job or honor the material, I would really love to,” she mentioned. “I think it’s a lot better for me.”
Grande has additionally spread out about having to audition for the coveted a part of Glinda — one who used to be originated on Broadway by means of Kristin Chenoweth — reverse Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba in “Wicked.”
“Some members of my team at the time were like, ‘You shouldn’t even have to audition,’ and I was like, ‘You don’t understand, of course I have to. This is something that has to be earned,’ ” she told the New York Times in an interview with Erivo.
“I have so much to prove, and I threw myself at it in every way that I could.”
