Ariana Grande Shares Career Change That Will ‘Scare The Absolute S**t’ Out Of Her Fans

Ariana Grande says she’ll “always” make euphony — but besides wants to dispersed her wings.

The Wicked prima announced Wednesday while discussing her career, which includes two Grammys, six No. 1 albums and multiple Guinness World Records that nan adjacent decade will spot her pivot distant from popular and backmost to her original passion: philharmonic theatre.

“I’m ever going to make music,” nan 31-year-old continued. “I’m ever going to spell connected stage. I’m ever going to do popular stuff, I pinky promise. But I don’t deliberation doing it astatine nan complaint that I’ve been doing for nan past 10 years is wherever I spot nan adjacent 10 years.”

Grande has been connected a whirlwind property circuit for nan upcoming adjustment of Broadway’s Wicked, successful which she plays a benevolent witch other Cynthia Erivo’s titular one, and said Wednesday that it reminded her of really important this imaginative outlet really is for her.

“I emotion philharmonic theatre, reconnecting pinch this portion of myself who started successful philharmonic theatre and who loves comedy,” said Grande. “And it heals maine to do that, uncovering roles to usage these parts of myself and put them successful small homes and characters and bits and voices and songs.”

Many were apparently confused erstwhile Grande suddenly changed her sound completely mid-interview successful June while promoting nan film, but nan vocalist later explained that she spent “a agelong clip playing a characteristic each azygous day” and has a really large, trained vocal range.

Grande and Erivo play bully and wicked witches, respectively, successful nan upcoming film.

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Grande besides slammed nan double modular astatine nan clip of antheral actors being praised for their “brilliant” beingness transformations while women for illustration her are placed “under specified a microscope” of judgement and said that it’s “a unusual thing” to personally experience.

While nan erstwhile kid prima has released 7 workplace albums since 2013, Grande did get her commencement connected Broadway successful nan philharmonic 13 erstwhile she was still a teen — and said Wednesday that nan song-centric theatrical vocation is still her existent “heart.”

However, Grande assured her devoted fans that she’ll ne'er move her backmost connected euphony entirely: “Art besides is what feeds maine — successful immoderate capacity it is. I’ll ever beryllium doing and creating six different things astatine once. I don’t spot that going anywhere. I conscionable spot it shifting.”