Hanging out in the studio right now ariana grande oh we’re on yeah dude here we are we were just discussing um zach sang’s halloween costume big gave a very helpful tip you give me a lot of helpful tips that’s true you listen to none of them bs he listens to none of them some of them i do oh true but i’ve learned so once or twice it’s weird one talking to you with like mics in front of my face because it’s been so long i know it’s weird i have so many questions that are not for on the air i have so much to tell you that can’t be can’t wait to he
Like life things everything but over the last year you’ve been on tour yes i’ve learned so much from you solely based on your work ethic dude it’s unreal thank you i’ve been inspired by your work ethic mr radio station when i was like 14 how crazy is that it’s so crazy you the first time you interviewed me i was um i think like 15 yes and it was right before victoria premiere and it was red hair i was so excited i was like zack sang wants to talk to me that’s so cool we hug out for like hours we played with
Marshmallow shooters and it was over then then it was over yeah that do you think about those days at all of course oh my god all the time we it was fun it was good times special times yeah would you go back to those would you go back to those simple times if you could uh no i wouldn’t i wouldn’t change anything everything happens for a reason i’m content i’m very happy let’s look at the last few months okay world tour yeah a whirlwind i feel like kansas city was yesterday just wrapped brazil it’s crazy that it’s
Been a year it’s like there were 83 shows that’s so many what keeps you going in between that um i mean well after a while the show gets easy like my voice right now two days after the tour has ended is so healthy and it feels really like i guess all the singing was good for me because i was singing in like a healthy placement and it really just like exercised my cords my heal my my cords are in good shape i worked up good stamina it’s like you know what i mean um so the show got easy after a while um but it keep it to keep me going
I just spent a lot of time with my my friends on the road and my crew is great company and i facetime my family cuz i miss them the best home the best people in the world are a part of your crew yeah i have made more friends in my crew in your crew anywhere than anywhere else without you i’d be literally i’d be so unsocial it’d be stupid you know you really do surround yourself with good people but it’s so necessary yeah because i i can’t even imagine really good eggs got a carton of good eggs you do see somebody else uses goodeggs great
Omelets what yeah i’ve been using good egg now for a few years and everybody gives me no you have been using good egg that is a very zach saying thing to say of me she gets it she understands me do you hear that jill i’m yes i’m trying to understand how you’re cool in anyway it’s crazy so while you’re on tour are you writing music too yeah well that was when moon i guess was was born i guess how does that work so it’s because that show is taxing i’ve seen the show numerous times punched your microphone i know show is
Texting but it really is like it’s it’s a lot of work it’s it’s not simple like you go and you write from there i mean well i mean you know you know me personally i’m a workaholic i i inherited my work ethic from my mom who inherited it from my grandpa and after a day off i’m ready to go again it’s like i’m i’m ansy i’m ready to create something new or work on something new but um after you know like i said the show got in my body after a while so it was super easy and i would get on the bus and i would facetime victoria and
You know we would write together and then on my weeks off in la i came there were only a couple but i came in in may and i spent a couple weeks with max and svin and elia and we did focus and a couple other records which we excited about and you know we’re wrapping up in november and it’s almost done it’s crazy because it’s been almost a year of working on this album like right after my everything came out me and we’re already like thinking about the next stuff and like inspired and ready to go it’s like i i don’t i don’t ever want to
Stop creating so let me let’s get into that process right the woman with no short answer ariana grande but the best they’re eloquent thank you and they’re done right oh thank you the process of making music for you what is it like you’re going through your everyday life and you’re being inspired when you get an inspiration where does it go and how does that translate into a song like is it starting with lyrics well it depends on the situation like when it comes to um like moonlight when when that song happened i was sort of just
Like victoria oh my god you never i sent her a voice note i still have the voice notes i was like victoria oh my god you’re never going to guess what happened blah blah blah i have to tell you so many things and blah blah blah and i was like please call me back blah blah and i told her about this like cute night and all these things that were happening i was like i have to write a song about this and i wrote a voice i wrote a a long note basically okay of everything i wanted to like say in the song and like i sent it to victoria and she
Was like let’s do let’s pursue this right now and then i think moonlight was done in within like 48 hours almost like a diary entry almost yeah it’s it’s yeah it’s really wonderful that was one of the plus sides of technology is that you can pursue things that inspire you and make you feel creative so instantly and yeah get things done from afar but then after moonlight i was like hey victoria what are you doing for the next five days and i stole her and i put her on my tour bus and we kept writing we had fun
On the are you coming in with stuff like when you’re living your life and you see a situation have you ever had to really make that determination this is too personal for a song or is it it isn’t i mean here’s the thing there’s there is a fine line because part of you was like hm do i want to make this about my personal life right now and am i am i going to be secretive about this and whatever but then at the end of the day i’m like you know what i’m a 22-year-old girl if i’m not writing about what i am directly feeling and what i’m going
Through in this moment as honestly and as genuinely as i can then i’m gonna feel like i’m sacrificing my artistry and like i’m sacrificing my genuine in my music and i don’t want to do that so you know it is personal it’s personal as as can be yeah 100% as can be is that the worst part of this entire thing that it is all personal because there is no saving grace you know what i mean no no it’s it’s wonderful to me because then i don’t have to pretend i never started pretending i never held back i’ve always been an open book you
Know me i’m very i’m very easy to read i’m a horrible liar and there you go that’s what you get what you see is what you get it’s phenomenal oh my gosh you look back and you see old ariana to new ariana and you think about how much you’ve learned and how much you’ve grown it’s insane yeah can you pinpoint one or two things like the biggest thing you’ve learned over the last maybe four years when uh i guess when you just like be yourself you know and in your most genuine possible way and are completely unafraid that’s when
Everything starts to fall into place and that takes a while especially with so much public like you know rumors and opinions you know what i mean it’s like you get scared and you want to hold back a little but then i was like you know what like none of this would be happening if i just show like just was like god and just was myself and i went out and i was my silly self and there you go and it all goes away and then you’re like that’s me ander you go yeah when you let go and you’re like here you go take it or leave it as simple as it
Can be it’s like why hold back you you can you own life just have fun and be yourself and don’t worry about the rest it all falls into place amen but you know yeah there you go let’s look back rambling rambling coffee rambling last 24 hours for you viva glam baby mac and this you’ve been working on this for so long i seen so many different styles i showed you the lipstick like forever ago they’re beautiful you i was like in new york and you were like why are your lips black i found it sexy i was like oh well
I should tell you so yeah it’s been it’s been under wraps for a while but i’m so honored to be a part of the mac family glam you take it’s so personal to you everything and even the makeup like you trying it on and having delina work it in and all this kind of stuff like phenomenal stuff around like you use this yeah no it’s been it’s been exciting i haven’t been able to use it for a while because people didn’t know about it so i couldn’t go around with like the color on and not be able to be like oh it’s this color so yeah um it’s
Really exciting but the most exciting part about it for me personally is that all of the money made off of the lipstick and the gloss go towards the mac aids fund to benefit people yeah are affected by hiv and aids which is amazing because so many companies would just say oh a percentage of this or like $1 with every purchase goes to so and so but this is literally every fre penny wow completely guilt-free shopping like you’re helping somebody and you look fierce i just got the chills dude yeah no it’s really cool special it’s no it’s
Cold yeah cool for you to be able to do that now in your life yeah well absolutely yeah i feel like i’m at a point where i can use my voice and i can yell about things that i’m passionate about and and i you know that’s that’s a blessing i’m excited i don’t want to just entertain i want to i want to make people feel something i want to make people you know feel i want to make people give back and feel empowered and feel happy and you know like they’re not alone you know whatever all that good stuff it’s exciting to be able to use my
Voice to do those things it’s pretty cool yeah it’s cool i’m rambling cu it’s i’m nervous and it’s cool go behind the m as you go into 2016 do you have any goals like what do you have what’s on your list i want to make um sure that moonlight is my best album yet there have only been three but i want to make sure that it’s the best one yet and it’s i think it is personally i love it i’m very proud of it and how okay so when you’re doing a song how often are you listening to it is that what you’re listening to in the car constantly you
Know what is it when you’re making new music and you’re putting an album together you definitely listen to it um way too much because you’re just you know it’s like you it’s you it’s like a baby yes you made a new baby the favor baby and you know you have to make sure it’s right and you listen to it over and over again and then and then you get the mixed version back and you have demoitis and the mix sounds so alien to you and you’re like that’s not right and then you’re like oh weird um no it’s an amazing process
Though you get very attached it’s it’s yeah do you know what a hit sounds like now that you’ve had so many i don’t know i mean i don’t know i do know you know what i don’t know you’re the guy i always ask you i always ask you but it’s pretty i mean but i get i you know i have feelings in my gut that are like oh my god this gives me butterflies but i’m not i’m not that guy i’m not that guy who’s like that’s a smash i’m not that guy like you’re that guy i’m not that guy you’ll give me you’ll know enough to give me the song to to validate you’re
That guy thanks who says the word smash still me you scoter sco scooter charlie walk smash it’s going to be smash i can’t that’s the only three people i know no one else on y i’ll take that company any day any day i’m going to start saying it now so i can be in that company hell yeah aaron simon gross is coming you have best friends you you keep people in your life oh my gosh my childhood friends are my my best ones they keep you sane yeah i love them they’re my i love them i’m so happy aon’s coming for halloween what’s he
Gonna be birkin stocks like what is he gonna be gypsy like what is he gonna be patty leone he and doug will go as gypsy rose lee and mama rose like what are they going to do if aaron is a bergenstock and yeah nobody i hope people know who aaron is you don’t know who aaron is you met him dan met him yeah i know aaron of course i know aaron aaron is one of my best friends of all time and he is like the most educated about musical theater and like anything of the sort that of anyone you’ve ever known in your he’s an
Encyclopedia of musical theater knowledge when when he speaks to you and he speaks he has an accent that no one else in the world has youi he just built his own vernacular it’s also so personal like when he talks to you he looks at you like he’s there he’s present he’s phenomenal sweet and he’s pigeon toed he stands like like this like each foot is like like they’re on the other side of each other i love him he’s great how do you how do you balance new friends and old friends you know i like you have new ones like just at the staple center
Right we’re like we’re backstage katy perry’s there the guy from uh how to get away with and or is a new black i mean you have people those are new friends new me well you know katie was very nice to me when i first put out music and she sort of like took me under her wing and was like hey like if you hav need anything i can totally be here for you and whatever she was very welcoming and wonderful and it was so crazy because i went to her show at the staple center um a couple years ago and i was totally inspired by it i was like wow i was like
I want to do this one day and then just 3 years later um i had my own show there and she came and she held my hand in the prayer circle and she was there and she was like girl you were here a few years ago watching me now i’m here watching you you better kill a girl so she’s always been really supportive and that’s kind of that’s like the that’s very surreal that’s rare yeah isn’t it i mean you’ve come contact with enough people not many people do that yeah know and it’s really nice it’s very it’s always it’s always
So nice to meet somebody who is so successful and who’s so humble and so down to earth and nice and generous and welcoming it’s nice because you still fang girl over some people like tom felton and and jim carry oh wow you have yourist those are big ones for me yeah those are two huge yeah tom f going to be in a music video i oh absolutely he tweeted he was like if you ever needed one in a music video i was like i was like i don’t know what the next single is but we’re going to find it we’re going to make sure you’re here i haven’t
Decided yet but i don’t know what the video treatment is which song it’s going to be next but single number two you’re the lead let’s go lally let’s go come true literally i’m sh he would watch so much walk by he can walk by in the background that’s it that’s all you need that’s all i need but do you mix old friends with new friends like tyler is now close with miley and like you you connect people yeah i guess so cross pollinate as i call it oh god when you put it that way i mean i guess but you know i’ i’ve always been so close with
My core group that i i i don’t i don’t feel like i i need anything else i always i i’m social yeah you are socialize i i socialize but you know i i have my my core group of people that i know since forever and brian and scott is like we go back five years now crazy that’s five years i remember when you first brought them on and they were the twins and yep i can’t even so weird to see the evolution like do you go back and have you ever like listened to put your hearts up like will you ever that’s like that’s like scrolling too far back
On facebook and you’re like oh like when you click on the profile picture and go back and you’re like no oh no and you delete everything r that’s there’s that one day when you just delete everything from like 200 like 13 half. Five on and you’re just like you delete everything it’s like born 2014 there’s nothing special about that like when you when you when you listen to it if you watch the video like what comes to mind what video of put your hearts up like i don’t know i just see a kid who had red hair but wanted to do
Music really bad so she was kind of stuck in this weird world where she was half her character and half herself and it was like weird confused but then shortly after it was like hey now it’s time to actually be me do this yeah i feel like put your hearts up would have been cat’s single you know what i mean it would have been like cat valentine’s single you know i really wanted to do music but i couldn’t wait so i was like stuck in this weird world where like it was like i’m cat but i’m we but even then like everything you were putting
Out was dope like i remember like i would listen to music that has never even seen the light of date or the first version of pink champagne or whatever like and i the songs were awesome the do version of of honeymoon avenue the mo and with sean kingston you used to there was a song or two what was that so long ago n i remember that yeah like we’re talking years that was so old that’s so crazy i like i remember hearing it i was like yo this is pretty good pop music i i have something in my eye i think it’s a spider web i’m so
Sorry i can’t open them for no i’m really sorry that a spider it’s all good keep going okay focus is coming out friday yes it’s a huge day for you tell me about the song focus has been um a secret i guess since may and when we first wrote it and cut it and recorded it you know and um it’s been so hard to keep my mouth shut i’ve been so excited about it i love the teaser uh the teaser pictures the white hair thank you sister’s looking good granny sheep nona inspired yeah i really was like when i put that wig on i was like when
I’m 70 i’m going to grow it out you’re going to look good i was like i’m going to let it happen when i’m 70 i was like i can’t wait to gray i was like mom this is when do you think i’ll go gray and she was like well if you’re anything like the rest of your family 24 i was like yes it was a good luck i liked it thank you i your ha great now too thank you my um my princess leia i like it moment very nice very very nice thank you very are you excited for star wars i am i’m very excited cool you know who i got to
Spend some time with on the set of screen queens is billy lord who is carrie fisher’s daughter and i was like your mom is princess leia and she was like dude i know dude i know she’s great how was scream queens as a whole like was it good to be back in tv yeah it was really fun it was like a little tease because i don’t get to act anymore and i was like wow i forgot how much i love this and um you know it was really fun i always wanted to do something scary and be to do my own death scene that’s been goals since
Forever i love horror freak right here i’m such a horror freak and to work with ryan murphy like he’s so attentive to detail like it was amazing to see him direct and be like no change this shot just a tiny bit and it’ll make it more suspenseful or like hey can you like slowly creep in and but then like tilted and it was like it’s so cool to see him make it more suspenseful like the tiny little things you can learn from people like that you know ian absolutely yeah that must be a crazy experience all around because everyone from ryan murphy
To kiki to abigail bresin to nick jonas i mean holy crap everyone was great what a cast no it really was such a great time that week and a half in new orleans was like one of my favorite weeks of my life it was so much fun it really was so much fun it was great what makes it fun was it the company everyone was so nice and but everyone not just the cast it was like the cameramen and the the props guy nico he was so nice he’s great shout out to nico you’re so nice the nicest guy every time i got excited every time he brought me my like my
Sorority cell phone prop i was like thanks nico it was great everyone’s so nice but that’s what you want that’s what you need for it to be successful yeah for everyone to be happy yeah what do you still want to accomplish like what do you still want to do oh so much i still have i don’t know i’m just getting started really i’m 22 i’m so young um how crazy is that that you’re just getting started yeah it’s insane yeah i had a weird moment in the car the other night what was it um i don’t know i was like thinking about everything and i cuz
I was like really nervous and cuz i was trying to get the video done on time and i was stressed and i was doing this and i was getting nervous and i you know and i’m excited but i’m nervous and i’m excited but i’m nervous and then i was like i had this weird thing in the car when i was like oh my god is this really my life right now like am i really so like nervous and stressed because i have a new song coming out and blah blah blah and i just finished my tour i had this weird pinch me moment in the car and was
Like getting tead i was like don’t cry don’t cry i was like that’s too cheesy don’t cry but yeah it’s still super surreal to me that like this is my job i guess but you know the entertaining part isn’t really my job i want to do more than that but yeah go ahead but those moments are so special like i remember having having exact moments like that right yeah and you would laugh if you were there you’d be like shut up like shut up it revalidates things for you though and it kind of you puts you in perspective because you lose perspective
So fast yeah and it because you get wrapped up in like days like today where it’s like 7 a.m. 10 p.m. Shoot and it’s like so many things that you get wrapped up and you forget that you’re like wow a human being here i am life i’m totally a human being but it’s like you pinch yourself and you’re like wow this is a whirlwind but it this is my life and that’s crazy insane it’s still weird to me your mom i i had a moment with your mom a few like a few months ago crying she was crying always we were crying because it was like it was so
Nice because you were about to embark on your first world tour liz just locked in sex drugs and rock and roll sex drugs and rock and roll and then i locked in the new radio contract and she was like my babies it was it was it was all around so emotional because it’s it’s insane we’re an emo bunch we need to like chill out a little bit i know more fun but our fun is monopoly and chilling and watching movies and um and uh sleep no more yes so much fun oh my god yo that was i will remember that night for the rest of my life sleep no more is
This uh it’s shakespeare it’s in a it’s in a factory and you go through with masks it’s beautiful and it’s intense and it’s like a whirlwind it’s amazing and you follow the actors around so they you can they separate the people going to the show from the actors by a white mask so all of the the audience members wear a white mask and the actors are not in masks and um they it’s like a really interesting interpretation of mc beth i think it is is it mc beth mc beth yeah yeah and um and you follow around whatever actors you pass and you just
Run around after them and you’re trying to watch the story and you know all the normal characters don’t look at you and they’re just acting and whatever but the witches like the three witches or whatever can look at you and like pull you into rooms and like do weir heard about this yeah it’s amazing sounds so cool and just to put in perspective who aaron simon gross is i remember being in the middle of this and looking over and it’s the middle of sex scene and they’re naked or whatever and aaron is perched above the bed looking down just watching
Intently yeah because you can do whatever you want you can like climb up on things everyone was like wow that’s amazing it was great yo focus scream queens you got zoolander 2 coming oh my god how cool is that it was i get so nervous cuz i don’t know if i can talk about it yo give me something cuz i know what it’s about and it’s phenomenal i mean like people know i’m in people know you’re in a movie i show my face right that yeah i mean that i show my face some somebody saying no we’re getting two i’ve been getting tweets about
It okay well i don’t i’m not in it says yes i’m not in it i mean but you’re all wrong so you’re not in it cool i’m done that’s it that’s it okay that’s awesome i’m not in it though but i’m sure it’s going to be great if you were in it it prob i had been aart it would have been really cool it awesome it like would have been my life goal but you know do you have somebody who you follow like somebody that you’re into on instagram that you look at and you’re like yo this person’s cool or follow somebody’s tweets
Uh yeah i mean i don’t know dumb question we’ll move on that’s a hard one i’m kind of i’m i follow zach sang one yo thanks zack sang one what do you think just hit me with my my tweet notes like i was ready to get them stop tweeting about your hygiene i know here we go here we go about your poor hygiene i know like i smell really bad i haven’t showered in 3 days i’m like zach no this is why his dating life is like burgeoning okay first of all my dating life is on the come up i’m sure oh it’s sorry what do you think of the we
Decorated this for you it’s great i i love it i mean it’s pretty it no it’s not it’s not at all okay i think it’s divine heather you happy with that heather heather worked really really hard on it y heather thank i feel like a mother who’s not being appreciated you know what i’m saying like i decor this whole thing just came through like god thank you i’m going to make that my ringtone grande called me god okay i’m gna go away now focus by coming out friday moonlight 2016 what are you going to be for halloween yeah i have a couple
Things up my sleeve i’m going to do a couple wardrobe changes throughout the night throughout the night you are yeah are you going to do more than one night though like it’s a whole weekend right it a whole weekend as soon as like friday night strikes i’m in costume yeah cuz i have a costume for for my for my event on friday i’m performing in a costume oo and you should come yeah and then i have um two looks for halloween day i think okay um i talk about them like they’re like custom made like divine they’re
Literally leg avenue like heri costumes like they’re not the but yeah no um two yeah it’s literally it’s a pillowcase with eye holes um no i don’t know i just love halloween i love it are we doing halloween horror nights we should yes we definitely should please that’s our thing yeah that’s our fave what’s like what’s like the spookiest thing you’ve ever gotten yourself into oh god she stories for days oh my god i’ve heard about demons heard about that we’ve been through that yeah um the spookiest thing i’ve ever gotten myself
Into um hotel del coronado is like super haunted and there was a room where all of the craziness happened where the woman i believe killed herself and she said it said that her ghost sort of lives on in that room and blah blah blah and um i really wanted to find the room i was really young i was like 15 and it was me and christy okay and mike chip alone i love that and my mom and um we were like trying to find the room and we noticed that like the numbers on the doors weren’t really the numbers on the doors and there were like little
Outlines of like old numbers and we were like they changed the numbers on the door because so many people were probably trying to look for the room and like mess around so they must have changed the door numbers and so my mom my mom joan grande was like was like found like the cleaning lady and she was like hey like can you show us where the haunted room is and she was like oh i can’t do that like i’m sorry my mom like gave her like 50 bucks where the room was and so we went and we stood outside for a while but it was so crazy i could
I swear that when you walked past the door you got like a i swear and then me so me and christy we were being so naughty i don’t know why we would ever do this we were like knocking on the door we were calling the ghost’s name all the stuff and we read up and we did our homework our asking oh screaming belting for it asking pleading and um after like 45 minutes because we were like why would we do this ever um we felt this like rush of energy like hit the door and like maybe we were just crazy but both of us at the same time
Were like and we screamed and we started running but our scream scared the out of mike and mike jumped down the center of a of a spiral staircase he he was like and he jumped down the center he literally jumped down like six flights i he like jumped through the center so funny and it was so funny my mom of course my crazy maab like gothic mother was like where are you going this is just getting exciting come back should ki the door down she’s like come on make us believers my mom was like yeah that’s like one of my favorite
Stories ever but dude run-ins with demons my mom bribing the cleaning that the best part you’re ultra sensitive like you you see that you get that it comes to you i just want it to be like i want it to happen you want it to be real mhm ariana grande focus coming out today so glad we’ve spent so much time talking about the single i know but i feel like we’ve covered ghosts ghosts we’ve covered uh what else mac we covered writing our friendship friendship things tom felton cross-pollinating cross pollination um i
Hey this was my list you know yeah i wrote a list for you your hygiene my hygiene was important yeah but i have so much to tell you off this microphone that it’s crazy all right thanks for hanging should we turn it off then yeah we will all right bye gang thanks for hanging with us ariana love you z any other questions i just have a question about snapchat you love that don’t you sometimes i do bro yeah i go i go like days at a time where i’ll snap everything and then i will forget about it for like a month that’s what i do too
Yeah it’s like sometimes to me but then other times great first snapchat experience i was there but munch 4000 y my god that was my first snapchat was it alexa made me get a snapchat forever ago and i really didn’t want to like use it at all so i i made like a some sort of username butt munch 4000 and i had like four friends are you like beus and but i enjoyed it and you would use it you were pretty good at it i snapped like twice yo they were creative snaps all it takes is two any question no okay ariana a grown day love you dude thank
You love you dude thanks for hanging y
