I can’t stop thinking about Ariana Grande: a deep dive – Ty

Hello class how are yall doing today I should say at the start Goose looks a little different here this is my parents dog nutmeg where dog sitting goose is right there they’re chilling together so if you’re wondering who that is that’s nutmeg and we love her and she loves you all right let’s move on anyways over the past year or so I just have not been able to escape Ariana Grande seriously she’s been following me everywhere now to be fair as an enjoyer of pop music and celebrity drama she’s always been on my radar to some extent but this year in

Particular Ariana Grande has just been at the Forefront of my mind and most celebrity gossip magazines hellish feeling with watching people misunderstand the people you love Ariana Grande seemingly addresses the media attention around her romance with Ethan Slater on July 17th E news confirmed that Ariana and Dalton were headed for divorce after 2 years of marriage this term not a girl’s girl let’s unpack that and let’s unpack that it’s being used against like the cutest sweetest Ariana Grande and in classic me

Fashion now that everyone else has come out with their think pieces discussing Ariana Grande’s recent scandals the world has begun moving on from this situation i’ve decided no we need to bring it back and look through all the ups and Downs of Ariana’s career to see how we got here Shall We Begin real quick I want to talk about today’s sponsor train well formerly known as co-pilot something about me that I don’t get to talk about on this channel is I love running but if there is one big aspect of my running training my running

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Own personal trainer Ariana Grande was born on June 26 1993 in boo ratton Florida which makes us only one day and well a couple years away from being Birthday Twins Ariana’s parents are Edward bouta a graphic designer and Joan Grande the CEO of hose mcan Communications which is described online as a marine Communications equipment company so I think like her mom talks to dolphins or something I don’t know I didn’t look too deeply into it but it is always the most nich sounding businesses that produce just the most absurdly

Wealthy people because let me tell you Ariana grew up in a different tax bracket growing up Ariana and her equally iconic half brother Frankie went to Pine Crest Preparatory School which today cost three times my State College tuition to attend and we’re skipping ahead a little bit but as a kid I vividly remember watching her house tour video that she made while she was in her Victorious days so yeah she did have some Nickelodeon money at this point but they lived in Francis Ford cop’s old home like up until that point in my life

I thought my pink zebra themed bedroom was like the height of luxury but turns out that was not the case when Ariana was just 8 years old her parents divorced and afterwards she spent most of her time with her mom and Frankie in New York where she quickly fell in love with Broadway and after Gloria eston complimented Ariana at a karaoke Lounge on a cruise Ariana began singing in local Productions like Annie and The Wizard of Oz and lonely I just take up my and and I really want to know how the kid who played the dog in this production of

Annie is doing they put their heart and soul into this role but Ariana’s childhood at least seemed relatively normal and quiet the strongest evidence supporting that are the countless imovie lip sync videos and skits she filmed pre Fame that are still up on her official Channel hi I’m Hara lson and I’m Michael Jillian and welcome to your total five minute body total workout our first workout is called the ball exchanger you get Stars they’re just like us but once Ariana was a teenager she decided that she was really going to pursue a

Broadway career together with her best friend Aaron Simon gross Ariana auditioned for her first Broadway musical 13 The [Music] Musical this musical is I believe the only Broadway production to entirely star teenagers which let me tell you is a wild sight to see when you’re used to 30-year-old Ben Platt son of Mark Platt Naruto running his way through a High School role honestly Ben plat still got a good 10 more years of Evan Hansen High School fun Ariana and Aaron both landed roles in the show and it was there that

Ariana would meet her other co-star and future bestie Liz Gillies both Ariana and Liz are immediate standouts from this production and although most of the teenagers were recast partway through Ariana and Liz stayed on with both of their roles and while Ariana and Liz were performing on Broadway they both auditioned for an upand cominging Nickelodeon show Victor which is very Rachel Barry cated of them and of course they both landed rols we’ll get into this later but the perception of Victorious as a kid watching it for the

First time and for a long time the Nostalgia of looking back on the show it’s very different from how we might think of it now considering the quiet on set documentary and all of the allegations of wrongdoing on Nickelodeon sets and we will get to that but for now let’s just talk about the show as it was previously perceived Victorious Was Made In This Very Special era of Nickelodeon where every children’s show was trying to replicate the success of either Hannah Montana or I Carly and Victorious had the genius idea to literally just

Slap those two shows together the show was about Tori Vega a student at a performing arts school and her Wacky Adventures with her friends including Cat Valentine played by Ariana Grande okay what if like a farmer planted a lobster and a potato in the same hole Maybe maybe it would grow a lobt yes cat a lobt would grow i’ll tell the farmers since the show already had a lot of brunettes Stan Schneider asked Ariana if they could dye her hair bright red for the show to which she agreed and since cat was also this like crazy Dy

Character Ariana also had a much higher speaking voice for this role I don’t laugh like that puppies wearing sunglasses but since Ariana wasn’t really famous before this show a lot of people just assumed that this cat Persona was Ariana Grande I mean her fans at this time were all children so I guess you can’t blame them for making that assumption but let’s be clear she was an actor dedicated to her craft now despite this being a very musical show Ariana does not sing a whole lot on it I do however vividly remember when her and Liz

Gillies performed give it up at the end of season 1 [Music] and I was just like hold on that tiny person has been able to sing like that this whole time they could have just made the entire show Ariana at a karaoke bar and I would have been sad that’s not to say I wasn’t also impressed with everyone else’s vocals after all I think they all sing Take a Hint by Victoria Justice and Liz Gillies believe it or not my queer Awakening but one of the greatest Unsolved Mysteries of my gener generation is why was this show

Cancelled and how can we make this all Victoria Justice’s fault the year 2012 despite Victoria’s winning the favorite TV show at the Kids Choice Awards it was announced that the show would not be getting Four Seasons as originally planned instead the third season which had already been filmed would be released in two parts as season 3 and season 4 in addition Ariana was set to star in a spin-off show called Sam and Cat with I Carly star Janette mccartie needless to say this was devastating Victoria’s fans had a lot of feelings

Upset anger and they needed someone to blame for this preferably a teenage girl with zero executive authority over Nickelodeon production Ariana what are you doing here and why are you not filming a proper Victoria season 4 see since Ariana was getting her own spin-off Sam and Cat Ariana was the one initially getting a lot of fans blaming her for the Victorious cancellation after the final episode of Victorious aired a digital angry mob of fans took to Ariana’s Ask FM demanding answers y’all remember bullying yourself on Ask

FM simpler times although we don’t have this first part of the conversation one anonymous question asker says actually nobody said that and even if they did this is different because Sam and Cat ruined Victorious all those other shows had closure Victorious didn’t have closure because of Sam and Cat no matter what you people you and Dan say you’re obviously just trying to protect yourselves from the hate first of all lumping Ariana Grande in with actual executive producer and famed pervert Dan Schneider is wild but alas Ariana

Responded to this saying sweetheart the only reason Victorious ended is because one girl didn’t want to do it she chose to do a solo tour instead of a cast tour if we had done a cast tour Nickelodeon would have ordered another season of Victorious while Sam and Cat film simultaneously but she chose otherwise I’m tired of this BS well even though they all sing it was very obvious which Victoria’s cast member was about to embark on a solo tour and that of course was Miss Victoria Justice but you see they don’t call her Victoria Injustice

And she was not going to go down without a fight uh yes I was on a lot of cold medicine when I wrote that line and I’m not going to leave it out it’s called authenticity Victoria responded on her Twitter some people would throw someone that they consider a friend under the bus just to make themselves look good # stoping a phony # if they only knew to which Ariana replied you just can’t hide from the truth the way absolutely no Petty drama was handled offline in 2013 you just don’t get messy back and forth like this anymore and it’s a real shame

However I do think it’s worth noting that some people online have suggested that this Ask FM and tweets were photoshopped and when I looked into that myself I do actually think that might be possible there are articles online discussing this Ask FM and these tweets albeit most are on pretty obscure websites typically I found as someone who googles a lot of deleted tweets even when tweets have been deleted you can usually find at least one article posted before that tweet was deleted with a hyperlink you can then verify on the way

Back machine or you would at least expect articles to use different screenshots but every website i’ve ever seen just uses these same blurry images also Ariana and Victoria have never address this Ask FM or these Tweets in any interviews about their supposed Feud but they have addressed other public information which we’ll get into so although it is perhaps more fun to imagine this dramatic back and forth between Ariana and Victoria take this with a big grain of 2013 screenshot salt what we do know for sure however is that

In June of 2013 Ariana is on the cover of 17 magazine in a look I simply cannot defend in the cover article Ariana says I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me but for some reason I just felt like I needed her approval so I started changing myself to please her it made me stop being social and friendly I was so unhappy even though Ariana didn’t name any names here fans immediately suspect again that this is about Victoria and began absolutely bombarding this poor woman even though Ariana texted Victoria privately to say hey

Girl uh this wasn’t about you and even said publicly multiple times times that it wasn’t about Victoria Justice and to leave Victoria Justice alone the damage was already done so now for the next decade Victoria Justice is forced in every interview to address whether her and Ariana Grande had beef when they were teenagers the way I saw dozens of Articles titled something like Victoria Justice finally breaking her silence on Ariana Grande all from different years as if Victoria hasn’t answered this exact question the same way for years

Because yes we as a society did slowly move on from the Victorious cancellation but then randomly as the internet does we decided to bring this drama right back around in April of 2010 pop star uploaded a 1 and a half minute clip interviewing Daniel Monae Victoria Justice Liz Gillies and Ariana Grande now it is important to know that this was filmed right when the show started Liz Gillies and Ariana Grande are already best friends from their time on Broadway but they barely know Victoria and Danielle Victoria and Danielle

Barely know each other and now they all have to spitball fun facts about each other and act like they’re besties to promote the show because that’s their job inevitably the fun facts Arana and Liz give about each other are much more specific than the ones Danielle or Victoria say about each other which if you don’t know the history kind of makes it seem like there’s tension in the group when there really isn’t but alas Liz Gilly says that one one thing you don’t know about Ariana Grande is that she’s always singing whatever she’s

Doing she’s always singing one thing you don’t know about Ariana Grande is that she literally sings Everything like she’s she’s starting to forget in and talk in her own voice because she sings everything and it’s a good thing she’s a beautiful voice but it’s awesome she sings absolutely everything she never stops to which Danielle says you know what Liz you’re always singing too that’s so true Liz you sing a lot too and in that moment Victoria Justice States the obvious hey man we’re all singers in a musical show like

Especially during all I sing the weird weirder thing I think I and is she wrong I fear this clip and the name Ariana Grande will forever haunt Miss Victoria Justice and for what for one I think people really like to conflate the character Tori Vega who in retrospect was a pretty entitled self-absorbed main character and assume Victoria Justice herself is the same way and acts like the main character around everyone else when Victoria was playing a character we don’t have a real reason to assume that and of course isn’t it

Ironic that the goofy side character of this random Nickelodeon show ended up becoming one of the most iconic pop stars of Our Generation and not the protagonist who was set up to have a fairly decent pop career surely Tori Vega I mean Victoria Justice must be seething in a dark corner somewhere because after all don’t we all sing even though Victoria Justice and Ariana Grande aren’t Bes thieves the way like Ariana and Liz are they have gone out of their way to publicly support each other plenty of times even though they don’t

Have to they were co-workers a decade ago time after time they’ve both said that there is absolutely no drama between them and even if that wasn’t the case even if they did fight honestly who cares if they didn’t get along when they were teenagers working in what we now know was an incredibly toxic work environment please leave Victoria Justice alone some of y’all owe her an apology but it turns out that no amount of cyber bullying Victoria Justice or Ariana Grande could revive Victorious sad but true so instead we as a society

Were forced to move on to its followup Sam and Cat I Carly and Victorious were unquestionably some of the most iconic and popular Nickelodeon sitcoms we would ever have and Janette mcer and Ariana Grande were easily two of the strongest characters on their respective show so surely if we combined the star power of these two entities these two women the universe would collapse and we’d get the best tween sitcom ever right now to be fair I was definitely too cool and too old at this point to care about Nickelodeon I was more of a deg grassy

Nick at night girly at this point in time but from the bits I did see of Samm and Cat I knew the show was not in it for the long haul see the thing about both Sam and Cat’s character on their original shows is that they were the goofy sidekick Sam and Cat are drastically different characters but functionally Sam and Cat play the same sitcom role but the thing is every goofy sidekick needs a straight man oh God not me saying they need a straight man an audience self-insert a Victoria Justice a Miranda Cosgrove to like bounce the

Chaos off of otherwise these Dan Schneider Productions have a tendency to just devolve into like a bad trip for 23 minutes so from a writing perspective I don’t know how Nickelodeon saw this show Going the Distance although let’s be real the downfall of salmon cat really has nothing to do with its lack of quality I mean nonsensical plot lines and thinly veiled fetish content was just par for the course at Nickelodeon Studios at that time no Sam and Cat was doomed from the start because Ariana Grande wasn’t just the girl with red

Hair who played Cat on Victorious anymore she was Ariana Grande with the capital Ariana Grande and to understand that we need to rewind a bit because this era was also an insane time for Ariana’s music career Ariana did technically debut her solo career during Victorious with the single hearts up every aspect of this song jail this ratty ponytail on the album art the way the music video lighting drastically changes from Cloudy to sunny in between close-ups because they clearly shot this over multiple days and couldn’t even be

Bothered to color correct it the song samples what’s up by the Four Non [Music] blonds because twin love that the official music video is still up on Ariana’s official youtube channel and it has a glitch 2 minutes [Music] in honestly that is the superior version of the music video I not the only one who’s not a fan of this debut Ariana herself has been very vocal about her disdain for this song in an interview with rolling stone in 2014 Ariana said that Put Your Hearts Up was geared towards kids and felt so inauthentic and

Fake that was the worst moment of my life for the video they gave me a bad spray tan and put me in a princess dress and had me Frolic around the street the whole thing was straight out of hell I still have nightmares about it and I made them hide it on my Vivo page although she has since walked back her total hatred for this song it’s clear that this song is not representative of the music Ariana wanted to make actually not unlike Madison Beer when Ariana first began speaking to music exacts she said that she wanted to make an R&B

Album and they said you’re 14 no so they stuck her with this bubblegum pop song very reminiscent of her character on Victorious It’s actually believe that there was an entire album set to follow this song including an unreleased collab with Nick Jonas but we don’t know for sure but by 2013 Ariana was ready to make her full proper debut the way she wanted and that she did with the release of yours truly this album debuted at number one on the Hot 100 and it is for good reason I mean the way Honeymoon Avenue they’re Bops I know it the world

Knows it and just like that Ariana was on the trajectory for major mainstream success which could make it kind of difficult to film a children’s sitcom on the side Janette mccartie who played Sam would later write in her Memoir that she had a very difficult time on set in part because Ariana was allowed to be a famous pop star and changed the show’s filming around her schedule meanwhile Janette was still under the complete control of Nickelodeon there’s this one episode of Sam and Cat where Ariana’s character is just in a box the entire

Episode and that was done just to accommodate Ariana doing a big music performance instead of being on set filming Janette in her Memoir wrote Ariana misses work in pursuit of her music career while I act with a box I’m pissed about it I’m pissed at her jealous of her for a few reasons so now every time she misses work it feels like a personal attack from that moment on I didn’t like her I couldn’t like her and to add insult to injury Ariana won best actress at the Kids Choice Award over Janette even from a box meanwhile

Janette has had to turn down multiple other projects specifically because Nick Odeon refused to write Janette off for an episode or work around that schedule to be clear I don’t think this is Ariana’s fault that the network is screwing Janette over but tension is kind of inevitable in that situation rumors are already spiraling that Ariana and Janette do not get along when reports come out alleging that Ariana is being paid a significantly higher salary for her role as cat than Janette for her role as Sam we of course don’t know if

That’s true but Janette did not attend the Kids Choice Awards and after this news broke instead Janette made a statement on Twitter writing a lot of you guys are asking why I didn’t attend the KCA I was put in an uncomfortable compromising unfair situation many of you have guessed what it is and I had to look out for me I chose to not go because sticking up for what is right and what is fair is what my mom taught me is always the most important thing at the time Ariana denied these payap rumors stating Janette and I agreed

Upfront that we would be treated equally on the show in all regards as we should be considering we each work just as hard as the other on the show the rumors circulating about our contracts and our salary not being equal are absolutely ridiculous and false I don’t know who’s putting these idiotic quotes out there but I thought I’d straighten it out and try to end this nonsense yeah Sam and Cat was put on Hiatus after this um I guess could still come back maybe of course I’m sure the show wasn’t asked just because of the tension between

These two Janette and Ariana were clearly both ready to move on on and do their own things outside of Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon itself was experimenting with new and worse sitcoms that didn’t really align with salmon cat anyways I think they were all ready to move on at that point but that didn’t stop Janette from being just a little messy in 2014 at that time Janette had a web series called what’s next for Sarah where she introduced this character named Gloriana so how have you been what have you been up to now that your show’s been canceled

That’s a super bummer right um yeah it sucks i’ve just been anyway i’ve been running around like a chicken with my head cut off except not like a chicken cuz I’m vegan i’ll be oh you’re vegan oh my God oh my God I didn’t tell you it’s like the biggest change of my life it’s like the best thing that’s ever happened to me I am so happy like I’m doing so well I have never been better wonder who that might be referencing and because we can’t have a celebrity video without him perz Hilton tweeted can I be in the next

Video as gloriana’s obnoxious gay brother to which Janette replied oh my God yes or gloriana’s boyfriend who gets cheated on eight times as much as I’d love to chalk this up to young actors being a little messy the story we now know is much more complicated and serious I’m sure a lot of You by this point are familiar with janette’s Memoir I’m glad my mom died and the documentary series quiet on set which both have devastating and heavy Revelations that we unfortunately can’t fully unpack here but to summarize there

Are a lot of former Child Actors Janette included who have spoken out about sexual harassment verbal and emotional abuse and much more awful things on the set of these Nickelodeon shows led by Dan Schneider Janette was being actively abused meanwhile she saw who she thought was her Carefree co-star and of course she felt resentment the quotes I read earlier from janette’s Memoir are often cherry-picked to either paint Ariana as some really entitled person who didn’t care about what Janette was going through or suggest that Janette and

Ariana have some sort of deep ongoing feud to this day but I think Janette in that Memoir is very clearly grappling with much more serious issues than Ariana’s pop career and Janette also says that she regrets directing her anger at Ariana in that situation janette’s feelings at that time were completely understandable but I think it would be really reductive to chalk it up to a petty Feud not to mention we in hindsight can see Ariana herself was sexualized and put in an unfair position by Nickelodeon and Dam Schneider as well

Ariana herself has not spoken about any specific experiences so I don’t want to imply something I don’t know but it’s very easy to find clips from Victorious or more often the Victorious web series that have an adult undertone and that’s really putting it lightly just out of respect for Ariana I’m not going to put them in here but they’re very easily accessible if you don’t know what I’m referring to it is is disturbing to think about how many adults were there filming these things editing them approving them I mean it’s indefensible

Although Ariana has not named The Quiet onet Series or Dan Schneider she did recently speak about how she’s had to recontextualize this era of her life speaking specifically about our show I think that was something that we were convinced was like the cool thing about us is that like we pushed the envelope with our humor and the innuendos were like we were told and convinced as well that it was like the cool differentiation and um I don’t know I think I it just all happened so quickly and now looking back on some of the

Clips I’m like that’s damn like really [ __ ] my daughter you know sorry you know I just you think about it it’s like would I if I had a daughter it’s like yeah and yeah the craziest part of that is like how people have to approve it like when you start working many adult many ad adults so many adults approved that so that’s it’s like there’s no Spirit of responsibility towards children there’s a spirit of like a bottom line a financial Bott L bottom line you know there’s a bottom line and then the things that weren’t

Approved for the network were snuck onto like our website or whatever it was and that is another Discovery but I’m going into it I guess I’m upset simply put none of these teenagers should have been put in these compromising positions and it’s criminal that they were and and that is Ariana’s time on Nickelodeon certainly more complicated and heavy than I thought it was growing up but again I don’t want anyone speculating about what Ariana may have experienced or her full feelings on it she said as much as I think she wants out there on

The topic and that’s 100% her prerogative so on a lighter note let’s talk about some youtube boy groups we haven’t thought about in years the Janoskians were basically like Magcon boys Australian Edition they were wildly popular with young teenage girls and their content consisted mostly of um being menaces in public making misogynistic jokes and writing surprisingly catchy songs like not good songs but songs that have been stuck in my head for a decade you are my [ __ ] best friend honest this is the best night ever

Poetry in 2012 one of the Janoskians Jay Brooks and his brother Luke started publicly thirsting for AR and this became like a running bit for the Janoskians where Luke and Jay would fight over who should get to date Ariana it’s basically like the worst possible version of Challengers although Luke was supposedly just pretending to like Ariana Jay was swinging hard and posted a Kik video with five reasons why Ariana should date him hey Ariana thought i’ come up five quick reasons why we’re perfect for each other number one I’m a

Good cook and um I can cook you a good meal ESP specializ in toast so I know you like that number two your name is Grande and my heart is going for you and I love the 2013 fashion Audacity Of wearing a beanie and a bow tie simultaneously number four um I’m R bow tie um number five The Perfect Blend of formal and casual but never doubt the power of teenage girls because they got #j versus Luke for Ariana trending worldwide to the point where Ariana’s mom found it Ariana’s Mom apparently thought they were really

Funny and I have to know what video was Joan Grande watching but miss Jan Grande said hey Ariana these Australian boys are really funny and successful you should give them a chance so Ariana slid into Jay’s DMS and the two started talking despite living halfway across the world from each other they made their relationship official on October 7th 2012 in December of 2012 they finally meet in person are you excited [ __ ] okay oh my God are you okay and I love that we have this footage courtesy of Frankie Grande

Giving us the historic archive we need while they’re together they film youtube videos and she takes him to see her favorite musical Wicked they’re having a great old time but eventually Jay has to go back to Australia then in February of 2013 Ariana’s team reports that they have broken up because of the long distance but forget all about that because in March of 2013 they are back in stronger than ever just in time for Ariana to kiss mcmiller in her music video for the way now supposedly they weren’t originally going to kiss but the

Director thought it would complete the video or perhaps he was just feeling a little messy I mean we don’t know but Ariana and Mac were feeling the vibe they’re professionals they’re going to make it happen of course though Janoski and fans are very confused and upset when they see this is Ariana cheating on our Collective internet boyfriend the audacity but don’t worry guys Jay is totally cool with it it’s just a music video and I mean why would he be jealous of Mac Miller he’s a Janoskian guys on August 6th Jay posts his 10-month

Anniversary celebration on his Instagram saying how much he loves Ariana but just one week later on August 13th Jay calls Ariana 5 minutes before she’s about to start her first tour ever and breaks up with her she is visibly upset during these performances and she later apologizes to fans who wanted to meet her after the show because she’s just too sad to come out of her hotel room but hang on what’s this on August 19th Ariana releases a song with Nathan Sykes from The Wanted you know that band that was supposed to rival One Direction and

Then literally Thanos evaporated off the face of the Earth together they released almost as Never Enough for the Hogwarts incest fanfiction movie uh The Mortal Instruments we were really just doing whatever in 2013 They are promoting the song like crazy Nathan and Ariana are constantly performing together and of course dating rumors are flying initially they deny these rumors until Ariana and Nathan are spotted holding hands at Disneyland when Nathan and Ariana confirm their relationship l Brooks brother of Jay Brooks gets back

In the ring and tweets eh Nana he’s Australian so you have to pronounce it correctly for the Punda work I think I nailed it Ariana responds I was raised to never speak poorly or spread false rumors about anybody sending light and kindness to everyone in my path now what could that be referring to well Janoski and fans at this time start circulating what appears to be text between Luke Brooks and a fan where Luke accuses Ariana of cheating on Jay with mcmiller and then again with Nathan but again these texts are not

Confirmed even to be real let alone the accusation Ariana might be sending love and light but Frankie is not going to let this fly Frankie said anybody who believes this rumor about my sister needs to pause open their eyes and remember how much she loved him he crushed her with a phone breakup and to see Ari that miserable broke my heart it was a sad time for us all after that things are quiet for two weeks until on October 7th of 2013 what would have been their one-year anniversary Jay posts this historic twit longer it’s far too

Long to read the whole thing but let me just read you some of the highlights yes I was cheated on yes it does suck yes I was left for another man and this happens every day to many people of every age gender and race I happen to be one of those people and I’m in a situation where I’m constantly reminded of it every day Nathan may be a top bloke or a sweet person but what he did was just completely wrong he interfered with my life and did not respect my relationship his actions caused me to not be able to sleep at night and not

See the world as a beautiful place Nathan if you bre this when you hold her hand you better hold it tight because you are looking at my world I do wish you two happiness and a good life and hope everything works out today was supposed to be our 1-year anniversary but instead I’m writing this do you know how the [ __ ] makes me feel how crushed it makes me feel but I’m doing this to protect myself from the endless hate I am getting and for those who have lost respect for me when I have done nothing wrong like I said this post does make me

Feel like [ __ ] but I feel it’s the best thing for me I’m looking out for myself thank you everyone here is to a great life oh man this is the kind of thing that you’re meant to like write to yourself and then immediately burn it and repress deep down but what a treat to have this just out in public actually the link to this twit longer is fully still available on his Twitter I realize I could be more more empathetic here but also this is a man who made his whole career off of being a public menace only to then take a hard stance on all lives

Matter in 2020 so I have a hard time taking him seriously Ariana denies these cheating rumors and said that she knew that this is exactly what he would do allegedly Jay told her that if she didn’t take him back he would go out of his way to make her look horrible and public and look what’s happened how do I feel about it I feel like um how he handled it was a bit unexpected but um but at the end of the day my my family and my friends and my true fans know the kind of person that I am and um those kinds of accusations being

Thrown at me are completely false and most like more than anything just hurtful and shocking but anyways in May of 2014 Ariana and Jay are spotted kissing at the iheart Music Awards oh what happened to Nathan I mean what happened to The Wanted generally we may never know Jay and Ariana do eventually break up for good in July of 2014 I really can’t emphasize enough how Wild it was to witness Ariana half-heartedly playing a role on a Nickelodeon sitcom having a messy public relationship with a youtuber and becoming a huge pop star

All at once I don’t think Ariana slept once in the year of 2013 it’s like just not possible and on top of that we also saw the first real dramatic shift in Ariana’s appearance during this era too usually in this time Ariana had like light brown hair styled half up half down but this is when Ariana really started to develop what would become the iconic ponytail and the thing is this look really didn’t come around by choice Ariana’s hair was fried from constantly dying it bright red over the years when she was filming victorious she was dying

Her hair at least every 2 weeks when she filmed the music video she went from bright red to brown right back to bright red all within a month her hair was toast at this point so a ponytail and extensions were really the only option that made Ariana feel confident and separate from the cat character she was so closely associated with at that point she’s also since talked about how her big over-the-top ponytail is sort of a way to divide the Ariana Persona with Ariana the person she actually has naturally dark curly hair that she’s

Never really incorporated into any of her looks or any of her eras my real hair which is the humongous curly curly poof uh is kind of I don’t know I like I I I so few people get to see it and it’s cute and it reminds me of me as a kid and it reminds me of you know it’s who I am privately like you said the hair for me is such a go hard character facade type thing and it it’s had its own Evolution but it has always been like this kind of like costume piece the way she talks about the ponytail it almost seems like

It’s like a drag persona for her and it seems like a way that she just generally copes with being in the public eye on top of that being now a huge part of her brand the fact that one of the most basic hairstyles out there makes you think of her heck just like rolling your sleeves over your fingers I’m not wearing long sleeves so I can’t demonstrate it you know though all of that just shows how prolific she’s been over this past decade even though Ariana’s look has changed over the years and at times in questionable ways we’ll

Get there she has always been incredibly smart I think in the way that she markets herself from the beginning but Ariana’s meteoric rise to fame is of course not without controversy after all what’s the point in having a new young female pop star if we can’t resent their overexposure for just a little bit on an unrelated note someone check in on Sabrina Carpenter in Chapel rone and make sure they’re okay Ariana was never shy about her big diva Inspirations like Destiny’s Child Whitney Houston and of course Mariah Carey vocally the Mariah

Comparisons have always been there and I guess we as a society think okay if you can sing a whistl note you must also be like a terrible person it’s balancing in that Way Ariana would be too powerful if she could sing like that and say please and thank you all at once I remember in high school hearing rumors that Ariana had to be carried around by her security team and she like refused to walk anywhere and when I went back to research this I was like surely that was some sort of telephone miscommunication or I misremembered that or exaggerated

That but no there were actual articles coming out at the time claiming Ariana did not want to walk and was only carried by her security team there were also plenty of rumors at this time that she was rude to fans that she refused to be photographed on her left side okay that one might actually be true because look at this [Music] clip supposedly all of Hollywood cowered in fear over Miss 5 fo1 Ariana Grande and it turns out there may actually be a reason these rumors about Ariana were so prolific at the time and do you want to

Guess what or who might have caused this come on you’ve watched the at this point you know it’s Perez it’s always Perez in October of 2020 when Perez wasn’t busy you know harassing Charlie demilio Perez Hilton published his Memoir TMI my life in Scandal in this Memoir Perez mentioned that he met Ariana Grande for the first time in 2011 when she was just 18 years old and heard that she was looking for someone to manage her perz thought he was perfect for the job but Ariana chose to work with someone else I can’t imagine IM why Perez Hilton in his

Own Memoir claims that he took this so personally that he decided for years of his career that he would fuel absolutely any Petty rumor about Ariana he heard this included more innocuous things like lifting up Victoria Justice as the next it girl inserting himself into Janette mccc’s parody of Ariana to viciously and repeatedly tweeting out accusations that Ariana was on uh Coca-Cola and that her outfit was boring let’s not forget that part history really is doomed to repeat itself with that man isn’t it in August

Of 2014 Ariana released her second album my everything and scientists are still trying to figure out how she’s sitting on that chair the photographer did release other shots of Ariana with the stool from that day to disprove the Photoshop claims but to me this is absolutely meaningless release the Raw photos or I will not accept this I can barely sit like that on this chair and they just expect me to believe that she’s levit in like that it’s been a decade and I’m still not over it clearly this was a big time for Ariana Grande

The ponytail has reached New Heights she’s got collabs with Childish Gambino the weekend Nicki Minaj big sha she’s got that iconic side to side [Music] choreography the local H&M’s were wellfed with Ariana’s music at that time right right before the album drops Ariana is spotted seeing the purge with Big Sean now as we know he was featured on the album and they’d worked together in the past so maybe they’re just friends but then pictures come out of Ariana and Shawn kissing on The Mummy ride at Orlando Studios Ariana can’t

Escape the theme park adult allegations now this relationship All Things Considered was fairly quiet they break up in 2015 but in 2016 big Sea’s ex fiance Nia Rivera released her hell all Memoir that paints the relationship in a very different light first of all rest in peace Nia and if you haven’t read this Memoir it’s one of the best celebrity Memoirs i’ve read actually Janette MCC is also one of the top ones now that I’m talking about that maybe I should cover it on my patreon because we do love to talk about a good Memoir over

There or we could talk about Perez’s if yall hate me up to you Nia is not afraid to name names give details and this story is no exception now Nia and big sea had a very fast relationship they announced their engagement 6 months after dating in October of 2013 but they had a lot of problems in her Memoir Nia describes a time where her and Shawn are fighting and Shawn says hey I’m in LA but I don’t want to see you and definitely do not come over to my house right now now of course Nia does what any rational person would do with that

Information and goes right over to his house Nia says I walk in go downstairs and guess what little girl is sitting cross-legged on my couch listening to music it rhymes with smarana shande now Nia and big Shawn don’t call off their engagement until April of 2014 so this could have been in between Ariana breaking up with Nathan and getting back together with Jay but of course we don’t know for sure all alleged even though this is about as direct as an accusation can get from Nia in 2016 I feel like this really didn’t make that much of a

Splash and same with the J Brooks cheating allegations none of this is really reached Beyond chronically online individuals who also go on to forget about it a few weeks later not the case however with her next Scandal on July 8th of 2015 TMZ released footage that would change the course of history while thousands of hardworking Americans went about their day Ariana Grande licked a donut in this leaked security footage Ariana is seen with donuts left on the counter of a local dut shop licking them not once but twice her boyfriend at the

Time Ricky also licks one but honestly who cares about that part oh I’m sorry is biological warfare not okay these days these snowflakes in their germ theory if you think that’s crazy just wait for what she says next hate America I’m sorry Ariana is it not your own patriotic American Spirit that compelled you to lick that doughnut in the first place licking things that don’t belong to you is as American a Pastime as as sweeping the Summer Olympics it’s what we do I’m sure I don’t have to tell yall that this was

Watergate for the 2010 Pop glies I mean it was literally called dut gate this Scandal also had a fun second level that perhaps y all experienced too see I was very strictly vegan at the time of the Scandal and Ariana was like one of the three vegan celebrities I knew at the time yet she had the G the audacity to lick two non-vegan Donuts like it was nothing you already know that gave freely the banana girl content for weeks including Ariana Grande licking other people’s Donuts my reaction warning graphic okay so obviously I wanted that

Screenshot up to show you the video freely made cuz I thought it was funny um but then when I was editing this video I couldn’t find it anywhere and the only thing I could find was an unlisted other video freely made called Ariana Grande is a donut eating flake and it’s unlisted so I think freely must have sensed with her vegan in spider senses that I was going to briefly mention her video and went and like Mass unlisted all of her videos like harassing celebrities for not eating like her so you’ll just have to take my

Word on that I guess unless anyone else knows where that video went the vegan Community fully went like R from Community they can excuse contaminating a small business but they draw the line at animal cruelty now don’t get me wrong what Ariana did was feral don’t do that however I don’t think it anywhere near Justified the enraged reaction it got but because this was such an earth shattering Scandal we needed an equally serious and shattering statement from Miss Ariana Grande I am extremely proud to be an American and i’ve always made

It clear that I love my country what I said in a private moment with my friend who was buying the donuts was taken out of context and I’m sorry for not using more discretion with my choice of words as an advocate for healthy eating food is very important to me and I sometimes get upset by how freely We As Americans eat and consume things without giving any thought to the consequences it has on our health and society as a whole the fact the fact that the United States has the highest child obesity rate in the

World frustrates me we need to do more to educate ourselves and our children about the dangers of overeating and the poison that we put into our bodies we need to demand more from our food industry Ariana you’re the one who licked the donuts not the fat children of America despite Ariana’s attempts to assure Michelle Obama that hey she hates fat kids just as much as the next Patriot Ariana was unfortunately Uninvited from her White House Performance and countless brand deals and appearances had to be scrapped not

Even her followup video apology made while high from her wisdom teeth surgery could redeem her I just wanted to make a video to apologize again for the whole donut Fiasco and craziness um because I feel like the apologies that I posted I was I’m I like kind of missed my opportunity to actually sincerely apologize and express how I was feeling because I was too busy preaching about my issues with the food industry which is like not I feel like relative I feel like I could have expressed myself in a different way so here I am apologizing

Again i’ve actually never been prder to be an American as if things weren’t bad enough because of the security footage The Donut Shop was investigated by their local health department and found to be in violation of the health code moving their health rating from an A to a b now how do I say this without victim blaming boy that’s a question that I just asked I don’t think I can so I’m just going to say they did leave the donuts out there in front of the customers when they weren’t supposed to yes we all understand that Ariana should not have

Licked the donuts but there’s also a reason that food is kept behind glass in like coffee shops it’s to keep them safe from Ariana specifically I mean she really can’t be stopped at this point so beyond some perfume releases a brief Cameo and scream queens and a donut licking apology tour we didn’t hear much from Ariana for a while that is until May of 2016 when Ariana released dangerous woman which gave us one of my favorite Ariana looks that being said I feel like this album really isn’t remembered outside of its singles and it

Was actually her only album to debut at number two instead of number one you lick one donut and people just won’t let it go also in the summer of 2016 Ariana has seen multiple times hanging out with Mac Miller they play Pokémon go together they go to Disneyland together seriously why is no one talking about how Ariana Grande stole jojo siwa’s move they’re also spotted at a tattoo parlor together and these photos will forever remind me of that fake Ariana stand account Dorothy that tweeted from her fridge because she was grounded free Dorothy

And in September of 2016 Ariana confirms that the two are officially dating this is pretty exciting for fans because people love MC Miller and a lot of fans had been shipping them since their first collab in 2012 and to be quite honest with you I fully thought that they had been dating since the way music video uh clearly I was not paying attention Okay so unfortunately we need to pause on the silly celebrity gossip for a second while Ariana was on her dangerous Woman tour in Manchester England on May 22nd of 2017 a bomber detonated a homemade

Bomb killing 22 people and injuring hundreds of others many of whom were young children I mean it’s a devastating event that hundreds of people still live with the consequences of to this day when this happened Ariana immediately cancelled the rest of her tour and on June 4th just 2 weeks later she returned to Manchester for a televised benefit concert to honor the victims and raise money for families fans who had attended the origin original Manchester concert were invited at no cost and the event raised $23 million for the victims and

Their families the strength that must have taken to perform again just generally but to go back just 2 weeks later I mean I really I can’t imagine that and obviously for the people who lost loved ones who were permanently injured it’s unbelievable Ariana was very open about her Trauma from this incident and began working with the therapist to specifically treat her PTSD after this event I was saying that you you um went and had sat and had therapy and and have really been working through recovering from what took place in

Manchester with your fans with your family with yourself and was that song is that was that song that important to put out some of that energy and and let people know that we’re all working to get well yeah you know it’s just about like um like just being there for each other and like helping each other through scary times and like anxiety and you know some dark [ __ ] out there man it is we just have to like be there for each other as much as we can cuz you nevering know you know but in the interviews I read and watched where she

Talks about this she makes it very clear that she does not want to be centered in this story which is reportedly why she declined to receive honorary damehood from the British government despite being offered that Mac Miller was was reportedly a big support to Ariana during this time and he also performed at the benefit concert when Ariana released her comeback single no tears left to cry in 2018 Mac tweeted out in support of her and shortly after Ariana performed at Coachella with Mac but in May of 2018 Ariana announces via her

Instagram story that her and Mac have parted ways from the story you can see they still have a lot of love for each other she says that he is one of her best friends and favorite people and although they still love and support each other they are no longer in a romantic relationship shortly afterwards Pete Davidson and Ariana are reportedly seen flirting at an SNL Afterparty and people notice that Pete has a new Cloud tattoo that matches the cloud Emoji Ariana posted to Instagram just a few days before which is very Larry

Stylinson of them but also I would honestly love to know just how many coverups Pete has had over the years because I swear this man gets at a minimum 10 tattoos for each relationship he’s in and on May 18th of 2018 the news officially breaks that Pete and Ariana are dating and it’s reportedly very casual remember that now for a lot of people this was the world’s first introduction to Pete Davidson and you either got it or you didn’t cancel me for saying this but I do I see the vision I saw it then I see it now Ariana

And Pete had interacted before Ariana was actually a musical guest the first time Pete started performing on Saturday Night Live in 2014 but according to Ariana they didn’t actually speak that time they did however reunite on SNL in 2016 and even though they were both in relationships at that time Ariana could sense a little bit of a Vibe and clearly that energy was brewing for a while because these two the second they go public they are the amusement park couple final boss they are all over each other’s Instagram comments they’re

Posting pictures and matching Harry Potter robes they’re posting this on their Snapchat [Music] stories we as a society need to bring back celebrity Snapchat stories because you simply don’t get this kind of feral behavior on Instagram on June 3rd of 2018 Ariana reveals that they have taken their casual relationship to the next level with a giant $93,000 ring during this time we also get this iconic picture it belongs in a museum they also adopt a pig together named piggy Smalls and he has his own Instagram account of course also also I

Feel like you need to know this um right after their engagement Ariana takes Pete to Disneyland CU that’s what she does and briefly posts a video of him screaming on Thunder Mountain with the caption when I get on top also during this time in August of 2018 Ariana releases sweetener which is her first album to get a Grammy and this album is so weird to talk about because its era was cut incredibly short so its success is really overshadowed by the Behemoth that was Ariana’s personal life in the later half of 2018 but I think at

The time sweetener was meant to Signal Ariana’s transition into a more serious pop star where she didn’t just want to make like a series of singles that weren’t really about anything with sweet it felt like she actually had like a unifying sound and vision for the album also the album had a song called Pete Davidson and leading up to the release someone asked how long is Pete uh not like that I mean and Ariana responded like 10 in oh I mean a little over a minute anyways but things are far from perfect in their relationship for one

Fans find out that before Pete and Ariana started dating Pete had actually made a joke about the Manchester attacks in one of his shows a real singer I’m sure and on a totally unrelated note Pete completely wipes his Instagram and says no there’s nothing wrong nothing’s happened I just don’t want to be on Instagram anymore from your neighborhood goon Pete is that what we’re calling it all that aside Ariana and Pete are still out there full PDA but on September 7th of 2018 Mac Miller passes away from an accidental overdose at just 26 years old

Mac had publicly struggled with addiction for some time but this was a shock to everyone including Ariana Ariana posted a tribute to Mac and she has since described her grief of him during this time as all consuming and again I can’t imagine grieving that loss while still very much experiencing the PTSD from Manchester and he was so young and loved by everyone like it’s beyond heartbreaking Pete later said in an interview in 2020 that he knew the relationship was over when Ma died Pete and Ariana initially announced that they

Would be taking a step back from social media to work on their relationship but on October 14th of 2018 it was reported that Ariana and Pete had broken up for good I think it’s hard for any relationship to survive a loss like that but especially when their relationship was so young and so intense it feels like it was kind of doomed from the start really after their breakup Pete Davidson is of course still working on SNL doing some promo with Jonah Hill and Maggie Rogers I’m Jonah Hill and I’m hosting Saturday Night Live this week

With musical guest Maggie Rogers hey Maggie I’m Pete hey Pete you want to get married no over three this clip gets picked up as like some big Scandal but honestly like most SNL promos it’s more cringy than anything it’s a diss at Ariana if you squint I guess but the thing is Ariana was about to start one of her most iconic eras and she needed an opener to promo that so she tweets out for someone who claims to hate relevancy you sure love clinging to it huh thank you next then two days later 30 minutes before Saturday night goes live Ariana

Drops thank you next with absolutely no official announcement changing the culture just like that I think whether you’re a fan of Ariana or not like you can’t deny the power and impact of this song Ariana had been plenty famous up until this point but this song I think is really what cemented Ariana as a pop icon I think for one it’s a song very reminiscent of some of Taylor Swift’s best work where yes it’s a good song on its own but it’s made iconic by the knowledge of her public life that led to this song this song takes this horrible

Time in Ariana’s public life the tragic loss of MC Miller the cringy relationship with Pete Davidson and their inevitable downfall her year at the front and center of celebrity gossip and paints it all as a learning lesson something she’s really grateful for I think it’s expected for a pop girl in the face of public humiliation to come out with some sort of Fu song or an ABCDE efu song or they go the other route and do some sort of heartbreaking ballad but instead this song really feels like a tribute to her past

Relationships and experiences and at the time that felt so refreshing and not only is the song a tribute to her past so is the music video the music video references four iconic movies from Ariana’s childhood with cameos from her real life friends collaborators her Victorious castmates and Colleen Ballinger for some reason one time on Twitter I heard Ariana was pregnant so I got pregnant so we could be pregnant at the same time turns out it was just a rumor I can’t say the video is perfect I mean there is one very special someone

Missing from it I think we all know that I actually don’t know I feel like I can’t I hate saying this because then everyone on Twitter is like you’re lying I hate you I was supposed to be in the video but you know it’s pretty dang close the music video even references the conspiracy that Ariana came out as a lesbian with this song I H is a lesbian now and dating some chick called Aubrey it’s [ __ ] sick because in the second verse Ariana says plus I met someone else we’re having better discussions I know they say I move on

Too fast but this one go last cuz her name is Ari and I’m so good with that except it didn’t sound like she said Ari it very much sounds like she said Audrey her name is because even though Ariana was first and foremost a Broadway girly diction has like never been her strong suit so people for a solid two weeks were convinced that Ariana was just dating a woman named Audrey now who’s Audrey we may never know this song in this video was everywhere and it’s still iconic today even though Ariana was still fully

In the middle of promoting the sweetener era people were invested in thank you next the next music video from this era went somehow even more viral than the last but was not nearly as universally praised and that of course was Seven Rings the song Seven Rings was inspired by a Time Ariana was having a little retail therapy with her friends after the breakup Ariana went to Tiffany’s and drunk off the champagne they gave her she bought seven engagement rings for her and her friends and being the theater kid that she is she co-wrote a

Song about flexing how rich she is that she bought seven Tiffany rings while sampling The Sound of Music this song is not one of my faves but also I do still tend to sing it to myself when capitalism brain Rock gets to me and I get a bunch of stuff I don’t need but this song and the music video especially was also kind of the culmination of a controversy that had been following Ariana for some time and that’s that little thing called cultural appropriation Seven Rings is in part an R&B song A hip-hop song a rap song with

Visuals that o pull heavily from that genre Ariana in the music video as spray tanned as ever alternates between singing in a style reminiscent of Beyonce to wrapping in a flow that three different black artists voice was plagiarism of their work the most controversial line in the song was also a blatant reminder to many that the purchasing of hair extensions while uncontroversial for white women like Ariana is a charged topic for black women Ariana however seemed to have a different interpretation or meaning

Behind that line after the song was released Ariana reposted someone else quoting the line who said white women talking about their weaves is how we’re going to solve racism I think this person was like being sarcastic and snarking and Ariana just took it seriously now maybe there is something to be said about the line destigmatizing weaves for all women I’m probably not the authority on that but also neither was Ariana Grande because she quickly deleted this repost and wrote I think her intention was to be like Yay a white

Person disassociating the negative stereotype that is paired with the word weave however I’m so sorry if my response was out of pocket or if it came across the wrong way it’s never my intention to offend anybody but even outside that one line it is hard to ignore that Ariana’s Seven Rings is so evocative of black artists that do yes have songs flexing their wealth but that flexing is meant to be like aspirational when those artists themselves came from nothing on top of facing the adversity of being a black artist existing in the

World Ariana was born a wealthy white woman and she’s now an even wealthier white woman there’s no contrast or humility in there it’s the Aesthetics of a genre totally devoid of its context which is exactly where cultural appreciation turns into cultural appropriation and yes I do think that in the context of the entire thank you next album Seven Rings is meant to sound more like a cry for help the whole album is her talking about the different destructive Behavior she engages in while grieving but this was released as

A standalone single so you’re also not going to get that context so I don’t know where to land on that one that also isn’t even acknowledging the criticism she Drew for her use of East Asian culture again for aesthetic purposes in this video the opening of the music video includes Seven Rings written in kanji in the music video she’s seen eating sushi and her hair is styled in hair Palms very reminiscent of Japanese fashion at the time this is also a very sexual music video which is fine on its own of course but with the imagery that

She’s using it does also play into the fetishization and sexualization of Asian and black women and to tie all of this together Ariana got a classic white person tattoo she got the word seven rings in Japanese Kani written on her hand but that Kani wasn’t written out correctly and instead read out to be something along the lines of smelly Japanese barbecue or maybe that is what she wanted to have on her hand that that would have been a choice but there you go what’s crazy to me is Ariana actually did have a Japanese tutor who had been

Working with her since 2015 but Ariana didn’t know how to read and write in kanji yet so she seemingly just got this tattoo straight off Google translate and didn’t text her Japanese tutor until after the internet flamed her for the misspelling she did technically get it fixed but it’s my understanding as someone who again doesn’t read Japanese so I don’t know um it’s my understanding that it’s still not fully correct and to be very clear this criticism is about a lot more than just the Seven Rings music video This criticism has been around for

Years is still around today and there’s a reason for that even though Ariana and Nikki maybe the same shade performing side to side together Ariana can stop spray tanning stop using aav when it’s advantageous to her when she wants to be taken more seriously as an actor as an artist Maybe when she’s married and her brand is seen as more domestic suddenly she’s not mistaken for a black or Latina woman using these Aesthetics when it’s convenient and erasing them when it’s not that is the white privilege because

While she may at times adopt the Aesthetics of different cultures she doesn’t face the Discrimination that those cultures inevitably face and if you adopt the Aesthetics of another culture without knowing the proper context don’t do so correctly you can turn that cultural idea into a laughing stock like say getting a seven rings tattoo that actually says smelly Japanese barbecue this era where She’s accused of stealing from black Asian even queer artists it is also easily one of her most successful to date it

Debuted at number one broke multiple streaming records but despite this album’s just sheer Breakaway success at the time Ariana also seemed just deeply unwell and of course that is to be expected given all that she had gone through in the past 2 years but in any interview I could find from this time when she talks about how the album thank you next was written she basically just talks about being drunk the entire time and it’s played for a laughs in a way that you know drinking very often is but genuinely a lot of these interviews are

Not easy to watch I know personally for me the body that you’ve been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body I was on a lot of anti-depressants and drinking on them and eating poorly and at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my healthy and not to mention there’s also plenty of times where she’s visibly distraught while performing the songs from this album thank you next was able to turn tragedies and controversy into a landmark album but I don’t think any

Person could possibly maintain that level of public turmoil and scrutiny forever and so the next few years of Ariana’s life even though she was doing plenty of things publicly it felt a lot quieter of course maybe that wasn’t even intentional because you know 2020 was like a quiet year for a lot of people but you get my point in early 2020 Ariana was spotted at a bar kissing a man uh who is this man well he’s a man his name is Dalton Gomez he’s a luxury real estate agent and that is literally all the internet seems to know about

This guy he briefly appears in Ariana and Justin Bieber’s music video for stuck with you then Ariana and Lady Gaga released rain on me the song of the summer I know there wasn’t much competition going on but still and once again Dalton is in the background in one of her promo posts for this song in October of 2020 Ariana released positions and while it’s definitely a happier album than thank you next I don’t feel like it did much new that sweetener and thank you next hadn’t already done and of course this era

Isn’t going to be as well defined as the others because she wasn’t touring she was just minding her business at home this year Bryce Hall did briefly try to get into a Twitter fight with her but she’s already on a grande she doesn’t need to be doing all that in 2021 Ariana launched R Beauty a celebrity makeup line groundbreaking listen I know I had a lot of praise for Hy’s makeup line which was released around the same time but I felt like H’s aesthetic brand and demographic at least kind of filled a gap in an oversaturated makeup space

When I think of Ariana Grande’s makeup I just think Brown at times too Brown winged eyeliner nude lips nothing that hasn’t been done to death in the makeup industry and I also find The Branding of this line very confusing because the name is R presumably a reference to her song R which is from sweetener but the initial branding and packaging was very like 60s retro future and space themed which is much more similar to her most recent album positions not sweetener to me this brand just seems like so scattered and all over the place but

Then again I feel like I generally hear good things about this brand I don’t know if I know anyone who’s actually used it but influencers say it’s good and they never lie to me I don’t know have any of y’all tried it is it good it’s an enigma to me but hey this brand was way more successful than I thought it was going to be which in hindsight pretty silly I thought this was going to flop when she’s still Ariana grand at the end of the day she could slap her name on most things and it would sell then at the end of 2020 right before she

Releases her Netflix documentary Ariana announces that her and Dalton are engaged Ariana and Dalton get married in a small private ceremony at their home in 2021 which by the way I always love small private ceremonies of celebrities where Vogue magazine is there the whole time just their closest lifelong friends family and you know Vogue magazine but I do have to say the aesthetic of this wedding incredible this broke the record for most Instagram likes on a picture and for good reason the Vibes are right but the best part of Miss Grande’s 2021

According to me is in November of 2021 when it was announced that she and Cynthia arivo will lead the production of the wicked movies as Glinda and alphaba I would like to apologize in advance for the person I become when these movies come out like are you kidding me not everyone was of course pleased with this casting decision Taylor louderman from the Broadway Mean Girls musical posted a selfie crying presumably because she did not get the role of Glenda honestly me too jnu I’m sure it’s not too late put me in coach

But more broadly a lot of people people were unsure whether Miss Ariana ya Grande could catch the vocals and style of Glenda because people so quickly forget that Ariana has been manifesting this role like her entire life she got her start on Broadway she killed it in Hairspray live this woman can sing a show tune there’s no doubt about that and Ariana has been publicly professing her love for Wicked since she became a public figure and as she should Wicked is that different though that’s very different oh that’s very different yeah that’s

Very different I do anything alphaba I don’t want to talk about it cuz I’m going to cry and like I I I I yeah I would do anything I would do anything to play Elfie Broadway girl of course you must love Wicked yeah yeah and and I’m sure that you have dreamed of playing one of the two roles would you be alphab or Glenda you’d be Glenda for sure her debut album included popular song featuring Micah which sampled the iconic Wicked song she sang The Wizard and I at wicked’s 15th anniversary Ariana has had Mark Platt father of Ben plat on speed

Dial begging for this audition for years and even if that wasn’t true i’ve heard the leaks of her singing i’ve seen the trailers she’s going to devour and I have no doubt about that yes she may have rocked the production of Wicked with a scandal unlike any other but in this instance I am choosing to separate the art from the artist because I need these movies what if every video I make from here on out is just me shamelessly failing to get on the wicked PR list I mean who am I kidding this video is not doing me any favors on that front but I

Can try 2022 for the most part is a very quiet year for Ariana outside of cosplaying as an Asian woman not much is happening every time I see this photo I just think of James Charles’s flashback Mary look like that’s what this is giving me there is also some speculation in August of 2022 that Ariana and Dalton are having some marital problems when Ariana is seen on social media without her wedding ring but pretty shortly afterwards she clarifies in a video that they’re totally fine y’all nothing to see here I’m just not wearing my ring

It’s getting blamed I’m not getting a divorce before you start don’t and me the fool I believed her finally in December of 2022 history is made fresh off his Coney musical John Chu begins filming the wicked movies not only we have Ariana and Cynthia but we also have Jonathan Bailey AKA Anthony Bridgerton as Fiero and Ethan Slater as Bach now Ethan Slater was big news on Broadway a few years back when as a total newc he played the role of spongebob squarepants in spongebob the Musical on Broadway now would you believe that when this project

Was announced people had absolutely zero expectations for the spongebob the musical but this musical honestly became like a sleeper hit and a lot of that was credited to Ethan’s performance he just really embodies this happy little se- sponge even though Ethan was vaguely Broadway famous to most people he was just some mildly goofy looking guy he was married to his high school sweetheart they just had a baby he’s just landed this Broadway classic role in a huge movie production I mean this was Ethan’s big moment boy it’d be a

Shame if he did something to mess that up well on July 16th of 2023 Ariana is spotted with Anthony Bridgton at Wimbledon without her wedding ring also Andrew Garfield and Tom Heston are just there now this is the first time the public has seen Ariana in months and of course people immediately notice that they there is no ring but also people see that she looks good happy even is there possibly some chemistry between her and Jonathan Bailey well no uh Jonathan Bailey is still gay no matter how many times I rewatched that getting

Out of the lake scene in season 2 but just 3 days after the world found out that Ariana and Dalton were done People magazine publishes an article saying Ariana Grande is now dating her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater A source told people mag azine that Ariana and Dalton had quietly separated in January of that year and that Ethan is now separated from his wife but this is the internet people are not just going to blindly accept this timeline of events people start going back through both of their Instagrams and notice that on May 14th

Barely 2 months ago Ethan Slater posted a Mother’s Day tribute to his wife which Ariana allegedly liked at the time more reports then come out alleging Ariana and Ethan were all over each other at an Oscars party which would have been in March of that year that they would hold hands and kiss in between takes on set seemingly everyone on set knew about this relationship but Wicked was filmed in London while there was very heavy covid protocol Ethan’s wife with a newborn and Ariana’s husband who lived in Los Angeles would not have been

Around most of that time to witness any of this one source told Insider Ethan sat Lily down a few days before the news broke out about him and Ariana and said that he wanted a divorce Lily never saw it coming although most inside sources do claim that Ethan and Ariana were separated from their current Partners when they started dating even in the most generous of timelines we’re talking about a few weeks to maybe a few months in between these marriages and this relationship with spongebob and it doesn’t make either one of them look

Great in the public but the real bomb drops when Lily J Ethan’s a strange wife says Ariana’s the story not a girl’s girl my family is just collateral damage man supposedly you break up one family and then you’re not a girls girl anymore there were also reports that Ariana and Dalton and Ethan and Lily had went on double dates that Ariana held Ethan’s newborn baby and I should say Ariana and Ethan are both culpable if this is all true but to me Ethan seems way slimier in the scenario when he has a newborn son and a wife of 10 years but people

Also don’t have a parasocial relationship with Ethan the way people do with Ariana where they develop this belief that Ariana is a good person who would never do something like this and to be honest on a personal level I had a hard time being scandalized by this news when it was happening because while yes cheating is bad I just kind of have this internal conspiracy theory that celebrities cheat on each other all the time and we as the public only occasionally find out about it my expectations for celebrity relationship

Dynamics are already very low so it’s hard for me to be shocked or disappointed when like Adam Lavine tells a woman who’s not his wife that her body is absurd and the same kind of went for Ariana while a child being involved definitely makes things worse I did not have high expectations for the woman who sing a song called break up with your girlfriend I’m bored but I’m sure I don’t have to remind my chronically online Brethren that this story was absolutely everywhere spongebob squarepants leaves wife and young child

For newly single Ariana Grande I mean the memes right themselves things got so crazy that the wife of beloved spongebob voice actor Tom Kenny wrote in her Instagram comments hi everyone I’m married to Tom Kenny who voices spongebob on the TV show he is not dating Ariana Grande I don’t know if Ethan Slater who played spongebob in the musical is or isn’t dating Ariana Grande however they’re both adorable and I totally ship it just wanted to set the record straight P.

S as for me and Tom Kenny we are celebrating our 20 27th wedding anniversary today miss Karen Plankton the woman that you are I love this energy I would also like to clarify at this time that I am not dating Ariana Grande and in fact Martha Stewart Snoop Dogg and I are celebrating our 28th anniversary today this news story while unconfirmed really is the complete unraveling of Ariana’s Public Image although all the things we’ve discussed earlier that weren’t so great in her public Persona have been public information for years they hadn’t really

Been looked at all together and people now start to go back and realize hang on Nia Rivera accused Ariana of stealing her fiance Cassie David accused Pete Davidson of dumping her 24 hours before going public with Ariana Dalton’s ex-girlfriend made a sub tweet about Ariana stealing Dalton J Brooks accused Ariana of cheating basically every public relationship Ariana has been in has some sort of cheating or messy overlap allegation attached to it now if that’s all true is Ariana the sole perpetrator in any of that of course not

If these stories are true there are multiple wrongdoers here Ariana wasn’t forcing anyone to leave their significant others for her but in the peak of this drama this all starts to look like a pattern of behavior that warrants criticism even if there wasn’t cheating moving on so quickly from two serious relationships publicly like that it’s not a very kind thing to do considering both of their previous long-term Partners but I also have to wonder if Ethan Slater wasn’t Spong spongebob squarepants if he for example

Looked like Jonathan Bailey would people care again I suppose the punishment fits the crime like leaving your wife a newborn for a pop star but people have dragged every inch of this man’s body how could Ariana leave this man for this man this is not a defense of them they both did a bad thing but I also think some of y’all forget that Ariana has always liked them a little goofy looking like I would say big Shawn is really the exception but she has always liked a goofy little goober I mean I was watching interviews with her from like

2013 and when someone asked who her first celebrity crush was she said Jim Carrey and Seth Rogan I still love Jim car I love Steve Carell Jonah Hill Seth Rogan love funny guys wow I love those guys yeah so like yeah like silly funny awkward boys I love it I love boys who can make a fool of themselves don’t take themselves seriously all I’m saying is that the signs were there we should have seen this coming after the chaos of that initial news cycle there are rumors that Ariana and Ethan have broken up that there may be laying low but no pretty

Quickly they’re spotted together plenty of times including at Ariana’s old stopping ground Disney World they don’t formally address the public but quite honestly that was probably the best move from a PR standpoint unless they were going to say that they hadn’t dated at all Ethan and Ariana were never going to be able to give a totally satisfactory answer for everyone on October 7th of 2023 the divorce between Ariana and Dalton is finalized they had a prup so things moved pretty quickly Ariana among other things is required to pay Dalton a

$1.25 million settlement upfront and the settlement agreement also includes very strict limitations for either of them to speak publicly about what went on in their marriage okay so neither Dalton or Ariana can release a tell all Memoir that’s fine could in December of 2023 Ariana posts teasers for a new album which is a total shock to fans because Ariana had previously said that she wanted to focus on promoting Wicked throughout the film’s release before working on any more music but on January 12th of 2024 Ariana

Releases her first real response to the drama yes and okay I know I don’t usually go in depth with my music reviews in these deep Dives but I in fact have a lot of thoughts on this song and music video first of all the homages to Paula Abdul Madonna love the intro to this song goes absolutely crazy like unfortunately unfortunately I do think the beat is the best part of this song I really hope that house music is making a return and I think the tone so what if I slept with someone’s husband while morally very questionable from a

Marketing standpoint was the right move like it or not people are interested in the drama and if you come out with a Cheesy heartfelt ballad right now people aren’t going to have sympathy so you’re best bet is just to do a classic I’m back and I don’t care what people say about me song and hope that it’s catchy enough that people will also stop caring and just listen to your music anyways but is this song a banger I don’t think it’s bad it’s definitely for the girls and the gays but I don’t think the song connected with mainstream audiences

Nearly as much as it needed to to like repair Ari’s Public Image I also will say and maybe this is me being a hater I really don’t like when Pop girlies write songs being like homophobic not cool put that lipstick on boy you know what else isn’t cool criticizing me for allegedly breaking up a family with a newborn baby like one of those things is not like the other it’s the same reason I don’t like you need to calm down well one of the reasons sorry swifties it’s not a good song also and this is me being real nitpicky Ariana

Says say that [ __ ] with your chest multiple times all while using her head voice and not her chest voice songs still catch you though Ariana says that she will not be releasing any more singles before the album because she wants the entire body of work to be heard in one piece which I think again was very smart marketing on her part so on March 8th of 2024 Ariana releases her first album in four years her first concept album Eternal Sunshine listen I’m just going to say it when Ariana is in the most Scandal when public opinion

Of her is all over the place that’s when she makes the best music before this album I would not classify myself myself as an arinator but this album was fantastic I would say it’s still in my top three for 2024 like album releases and this was a stacked year listen I wish I didn’t have to say that because I certainly have criticisms of her public persona but I mean this is a no skip album for me pretty much well except for the yes and remix with Mariah Carey something went wrong there Ariana definitely hides behind the concept

Album part so who knows how much of her lyrics are based on literal truth and how much of it is fictionalized but Arian throughout this album Paints the picture of a messy relationship with cheating on both sides and even though that relationship ends they’re still love there fans do immediately start going after Dalton when the album is released and Ariana pretty quickly releases a statement saying hey don’t send hate messages to people that you think the album is about even though this album discusses a lot of pain it

Also clearly has a lot of love there and unfortunately I kind of feel like these statements need to be like standard practice these days when artists have public relationships because we’ve seen the reaction to Taylor Swift or Olivia Rodrigo albums it’s not the artist’s Fault by any means but some fans just don’t have an off switch and take things way too far and we just need to get in the habit of stomping that behavior in the ground Ariana also released the second single we can’t be friends the most popular song from the album and

Again I’m sorry probably one of the best song she’s ever made not only does this song work as like a heartbreaking tribute to a past relationship presumably Dalton it also seems like she’s speaking directly to her fans in the song she talks about people having this perception of her that she can’t control that she doesn’t agree with it’s unexpected but I think it really works especially with the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind concept she has also since released a music video for the boy is mind starring Penn Badgley now I said

This was a no skip album I like the song I think it’s fine but also if I had to guess what Eternal Sunshine would have been before the album came out I would have guessed that there would be some song like this during the height of the spongebob drama leaks circulated of demos Ariana had recorded at some point they were these very ’90s inspired ari songs about fantasizing about taking someone else’s man and honestly fantasize goes kind of crazy Ariana says that these songs were originally made for a Seth mcfarland show that didn’t go

Anywhere and they weren’t meant to be true to life it was commissioned for the show but fantasy size was eventually turned into the Boy Is Mine and true story one of the other leaks stayed fairly similar to the original version just with updated verses but for me the boy mind is here fantasize is here and that’s just how it is Eternal Sunshine did pretty well I mean it had The Misfortune of coming out like within a month of a Taylor Swift album so like chartwise didn’t stand much of a chance but we can’t be friends has continued to

Stay in like the top 10 for months now Ariana’s Public Image isn’t repair Cared by any means but I think everyone now kind of has the Curt humel attitude of she may be difficult but boy can she sing and even though like I said Ariana has not publicly addressed her personal life the brief appearances she has made have still managed to drive up controversy when Ariana went on the Zach sang show to promote the album fans noticed she sounded a little bit different and there’s also really dope like Picasso pillow in the background

Where’s that mom can I have that we tried to find a location that was similar to the sand video it’s we did it it’s beautiful it’s it lacks a lot of graffiti but it’s beautiful it’s perfect when she went on pod crushed there’s a moment where you can actually see Ariana switch between her seems to be her natural speaking voice and this new Transatlantic accent she has that’s the only thing I thought that’s how I felt I was like what has happened um yeah I don’t know um but yeah i’ve been writing a lot and maybe there’s some more but I I would

Like to do a deluxe at some point Ariana did comment directly on this clip saying the change was due to Habit from speaking in the Glinda voice for two years a very Austin Butler of her and she claimed that she has always changed her voice placement depending on how much she’s singing this statement is backed up by some earlier clips of Ariana during her cat valentine era where she also spoke in a higher register and claimed it was healthier for her singing voice something you haven’t told anyone else today i’ve been

Speaking in a slightly higher placement than I usually speak in because i’ve been doing a lot of interviews all day and I’m trying to keep my voice healthy but it sounds a tiny bit raspy so but I’m trying but I usually talk like lazy and like grally but I’m trying to place it healthier but I sound like an idiot but this statement doesn’t address the other issue that people were bringing up with this I don’t think people would care as much if Ariana just changed the pitch of her voice higher and lower over the

Years but people again point out that the pitch of her voice changing over time has also accompanied much heavier use of aave during eras in her music where she more heavily pulled from rap R&B and hip-hop sounds i’m like [ __ ] that’s my cookie is my juice okay Carry On thank you next that’s what this baby picture says K me get your ass in here come on girl whereas now when Ariana wants to be seen as a serious actress devoted to her major movie role that aav is gone she’s speaking in a different pitch and she’s blonde the

Spray tan is gone and to my knowledge Ariana has never meaningfully addressed these race fishing allegations beyond what we discussed earlier with her Seven Rings statement and at this point I don’t think she ever will not to mention on pod Crush Ariana says that one time she told little kids that if she could have dinner with anybody in the world it would be Jeffrey dmer years ago before the dmer series before it was I was in a Q&A with fans with young fans it was young fans at the time it was like I think it was like in

Between like me being cat and pop stuff so it was like a younger group but it was with a parent someone said if you could have dinner with anyone living or or dead who who would it be and I was like oh you’re so cute who um Mom and Dad is it okay if I give the real answer and they were like sure I guess what what’s the answer and I like um I mean Jeffrey dmer is pretty fascinating I think I would have loved to have met him yeah family members of dmer victims didn’t love that one hi it’s me in different clothes again I

Feel like I really start to lose my train of thought at the end of my filming sessions so I feel like I missed some things I wanted to say looking at all of Ariana’s career especially in the last few years it all just made me wonder like can an artist exist like a real popular artist without being just a little bit of a mess in public is that what fuels the art or is it something different and don’t get me wrong while I don’t necessarily agree with everything Ariana has ever done in her public career that’s not to say that she hasn’t

Also done a lot of things that I like I mean her music for one thing but also but also i’ve followed her for a long time before this i’ve watched countless interviews of her and she’s really funny and also one thing I couldn’t really work into this video that I really liked about Ariana is that she’s far more politically vocal than I I think a lot of other pop stars at her like level of Fame are she has used her platform many times to advocate for important issues and i’ll always respect things like that and on top of that I think it’s

Incredibly evident at this point that she is an incredibly strong person to have suffered the losses that she has experienced in her life in the public eye on top of that and still be able to make great music connect with her audience I never want these celebrity deep Dives to come across like a hit piece on one particular person are a grande like everyone else is a complicated person who has done plenty of good and questionable things all in one package but really let me know what your thoughts are on this because we

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