Listen this is a zack s in the gang z s in the gang exclusive exclusive zach s in the gang hanging out right now in the studio ariana grande looking good you look beautiful you really do thank you so much okay honestly straight up the last time we sat down with microphones in the room was like a year ago yes it’s been a while it has been a while life is crazy for you dude yeah it’s been a great journey it has been it’s been you you probably exhausted i’m so so tired but i’m good now i have a little nap in the
Car so i’m good power nap yes a power nap do you know some days when you get super like when your fame is exposed all over the television i think back to like five or six years ago when you first came to my studio and you wouldn’t leave i know and i was like let’s have a like a a a a water gun fight or a marshmallow gun fight that was fun and you stayed and then we became the best of friends yay and it’s been history ever since this is our first time doing an interview together in forever and it’s really weird because i only see you on a
Friend like b socialize now we don’t really work yeah never so this is interesting cool this is going to be interesting no don’t what do you don’t be nervous i’m not nervous you’re making me nervous everybody say i am not nervous at all so if you guys i’m not nervous i’m good this is my first time meeting you as well i know so it’s new for both of us you’re awesome you’re awesomer she’s a good egg sasha do you approve i do we do we do have a rule that i’ll let you know after the interview okay good because we we have
An unspoken thing where when new people come into the group i like to get your approval yes of course of course absolutely z and i can’t really let new people into our circle unless they have hey i can dig it man mutual approval a lot of people are are really sucky there are a lot of sucky people out there you know me absolutely are and i don’t i don’t uh want to be one of them no you’re not i get a good vibe from you thanks man well good i trust jack zach’s judgment he has good judgment i do i’m very honest do
You like the fact that i’m honest i do it’s it’s like sometimes you’re hideously honest and it’s so great i love i love that ad objective hideously out you are like i love that that’s awesome but you’ve had a lot going on man congratulations seriously thank you so much it’s it’s really it’s incredible for me to watch your rise because i i remember you with red hair and you know shooting marshmallows at each other we’ve had it’s been an incredible yes ride yeah do you ever sit back and just think of those days five or six years
Ago i do sometimes but sometimes i i i really just like to enjoy the present you know i don’t like to worry too much about the future i don’t like to think too much about the past i like to just enjoy what’s happening now and how is the sorry like right now i hit my knee that sucked how is the present doing for you right now pretty freaking well yeah it’s it’s it’s really great it’s good i’m just admiring i forgot how great you are at this i’m sorry no i’m just saying i’m just saying you’ve been so good at this for so long you’re like a young
Entrepreneur when you’re were like 15 or something and i was like he’s awesome i that’s when i first met i forgot how great you are on the radio i’m pretty i’m not bad yeah no you’re great yeah thank you keep it up okay let’s talk about you music right now album out honestly incredible and i remember again a year ago being with you listening to the album when it first came out at midnight or like 11:30 or something on itunes and we had a party yeah and it’s a night i’ll never forget ever yeah a night you’ll never remember is that what
You’re about to say that it’s a night i will never remember but it was i feel like that was historic that must have been historic great no of course it was so much fun just remember us like frankie was wearing some sort of sparkly ariana shirt and was like doing pirouettes on the balcony and like running around and like belting piano and we were just like having so much fun how have you do you feel like your m music has grown since that first album yeah i do i feel like it’s still genuine to who i am but i feel like there’s like an honest
Progression i hear it honestly i do and i and i feel like you know the first album was super personal you know especially with tattoo heart but then as i was listening to this one i listened to the album a few times now it’s so personal every song is like i feel like it’s an entry you know in a diary not only are the lyrics personal but the work you put into it makes it incredibly personal musically great it’s like a great music like it’s so pleasing to the ears the whole like the whole thing it’s awesome thank you how personal was the
Album for you honestly is that hard to do to let it all out in aong yeah especially because like people listen and then they are you know it’s vulnerable you know it’s but that’s why it’s a great form of self-expression i love it it’s nerve-wracking but it’s it’s like that’s what i want to do i love it exactly yeah do you see yourself doing this forever yes i see you doing it forever too oh good yeah i see you doing this forever i see us doing this together annually for the rest of our lives well i love that
Like you’re talking about the album release last year and then this year like the vmas was when your album dropped like that is like such a huge step in just a year dude that’s out of control awesome like that’s so cool thank you i remember always sending you songs before they i i like decide what what i’m going to do with them do you know i remember like a few months ago you sent me the first song you ever one of the first songs you ever made the song about yeti yes your microphone yeah even then it was really well done it
Wasn’t about a microphone i thought it was it about a boy was it really you said you recorded on a microphone called yeti yeah but that’s not why it was about that’s not why it was called yeti who was it about oh maybe that just triggered the the title maybe but yeah it was it was a very silly song but the top line was good i was proud of that i i enjoyed the hook on the song yeah i really liked it yeah you’ve been musical forever yeah oh is was this something i mean obviously something you always wanted to do during victoria but did you
Ever imagine victoria kind of being the middle ground between the two no i didn’t picture victoria what does that mean i don’t know like you had to i mean you did i mean i feel like if you could you would have just gone straight to music i definitely would have but i moved to la and i met with my managers and they were like girl you can’t just like you’re 14 years old you can’t just make an r&b album they’re like what are you thinking like that’s not the best idea i don’t think anybody would buy it and i was like well thank you for your
Honesty and they were like tv it is and i’ve been working with them ever since um and i they were like so audition for some tv shows and i did and a week later i booked victorious wow i was like here you go and can i can i do the music now and they like well you have to film the show first and i was like okay how long’s that going to take probably a few years i was like what but then i loved it i loved every minute of it and i fell in love with my character i fell in love with the network i fell in love with my castmates and you fell
In love with me that’s how we met that was it that was the beginning one of the most important things friendship yeah one of the most important things that come out of your time yes one of them for sure easily some real friendship no and i think how important is that for you to have you know we talk about it sometimes and it’s like you know life moves fast there’s so much going on constantly and it’s like you need to have people by your side who want believe in you and to are honest with you all the time and you need
Hideously honestly hideously but you also need someone to experience life with you because you have so much life that’s been all of a sudden thrown at you and it’s like you need people there with you by it’s really helpful to have somebody to like like one or two true true real people that are like always i have a good i have a good group alexa is awesome yes i have you know my my group you know them very well they became my friends yeah i mean i i i i’m really lucky that i stayed in such close contact with my childhood friends yeah
And you and my new york friends and my brother’s friends like and like a handful of people that i met in la that i love as well so it’s like i have a i have a small but kind of large group of people that i trust so feel lucky i feel safe and i love my friends i stay so close to them what’s the what’s the part about this whole entire journey for you honestly um misperceptions lies rumors that whole thing is like weird i agree with you it’s just weird you know what i mean well it’s hard to control it too cuz there’s so much of it the internet
Is so goddamn big so it’s so hard i i just stopped looking at it entirely i don’t look at all anymore it’s stupid because the i get really upset because at least once a day i someone comes up to me and they’ll know me from you know the radio and right after they recognize me it’ll always be a follow-up question about you and then constantly you know most of the times they’re incredible you know compliments about you and then you know some very few there’s that time where it’s you know they’re just they’re talking about you like you’re an object
And that offends me and i try not to go off on these people on a daily basis they you know and i feel like i i i can’t even imagine what it’s like being in your position well i just try not to listen to it i really do like i do a lot of i like as much work as i do on my music i work like even more on just like my brain and like my my personal like like you know what i mean my personal life i just try to keep like a healthy brain space for myself and a happy sort of little my own little world that i like make this like little bubble for
Myself and it’s really lovely in there i recommend it i think people in the world should try to create their own little bubbles this is awesome in here does it suck that that kind of stuff comes in the way of making music and making art being or it does it or does it fuel it does it make it more like does it put more passion behind it cuz you i really have done a good job of just like kind of shutting it out recently i really i just i really don’t look at anything music’s a good way to just shut i really don’t look at it the only time i find
Out about things is when my fans are like hey did you see that this happened yeah in which case i’ll be like no but i won’t look at it i’m like no but i don’t want to that’s a good way to do it yeah so i just i just sort of pay attention to the good and everything how do you grow from here honestly like where do you where how how i have a long way to go do you think so yeah duh i’m just getting started what’s next i feel like i could uh just like get better at so many things i feel like i’m just getting started i’m learning so much and my
Music is going to get so much better and i can only i i just i only hope to grow from here is there pressure to grow because you’ve had so many hits and so many successes in the recent past no no i mean there is but not i mean i don’t feel it i guess there is but i don’t really feel like there’s any sort of pressure to outdo myself i mean i i personally always want to do as good if not better as i did before but for me not for like you know what i mean exactly for anything else you know i’m looking at you you look beautiful today
You honesty hour i’m so so so tired no you can’t tell you could not tell you wear honest i’m not wearing shoes you are i kicked them off as soon as i got in here great honesty hour i’ve told you this before when you first came in oh my god how long ago is victoria 7 years ago years ago 7even years ago was it i think so i think does anyone know in the other room nobody know i think it was 14 6 years ago maybe 14 seven you’re 21 when you when you first came in i had the largest crush on you oh my god i told you this and then we became friends and
Then then it went away then it was friend zone friend zone all way it was it always it was we were very very honest as well my god yeah and you you make fun of me all the time the fact that i don’t have a girlfriend i do a little bit just a little bit only because i try and help you and you go in the complete direction of my advice bs what are you talking about always i’ll be like zach don’t say that and then you’re like i said it and i’m like we just talked about how it’s hard for you to get into a relationship cuz it’s your
Choice what what do i need to be doing then you tell me you sch you need to listen to me and liz we give you advice all the time stop tweeting about you have stop tweeting about how you haven’t showered in 3 days stop like just stop like stop zach stop saying i’m on television i’m zach don’t talk to me it’s not you have to like listen to me and liz we’re trying to help you we love you i know i i do need guidance i feel like we’re giving it to you we’re giving you gems and pearls gems and pearls of friendship miss thing i you’re
Right you’re right you’re right miss thing wow you used miss thing on me i did not the first time not the last time either okay tell me we will help you out but just you know yeah you got to be you got to be open guide me guide me okay stop tweeting about your lack of hygiene first of all but i’m looking do i look clean today you look clean as hell i don’t understand your tweets okay okay okay very nice he has a nice haircut wearing nice shoes this is to button- down shirt sensible moments happening you know i wore this shirt because your
Mom complimented me on this shirt in florida so i because i like when mama and grande compliments me doesn’t happen often so i wear it so i wanted to i wanted to get her approval how is she that’s lovely she’s good she’s with nona right now they’re both doing beautifully yes well no know is good as well yeah yeah she looked beautiful on s together good i it’s so important you always loved family i mean since day one so important it how is frankie doing on the tv show big brother he’s doing really well actually and um i’m so proud of him
For making it this far yeah he’s come so far he’s got a huge target on his back but i think that he’s played a risky mildly dirty yet incredibly intelligent game yeah that’s the that’s how you win that game is like you culate and you do it right and he’s really doing it right have you been watching yeah i’ve been watching i i really like it and there are moments when frankie will do something and i’ll be like oh my god that’s going to be on the soup later you know the show the soup or whatever they they take they recaps and clips and they
Always show him and everybody’s always clapping for him and they’re always like team grande team grande oh that’s hilarious and it’s awesome oh that’s amazing i want to see that yeah it’s awesome it’s pretty cool to have your brother you know rise to the ranks just like you are simultaneously yeah i i i’m so proud of him i just can’t wait for him to get home i have so many things to tell him i have so many like i just want to like watch because you haven’t talked to him at all i’ve been able to write him letters that’s it wow and that’s so
Weird for you oh my god sucks you guys are he can’t respond the only way i see what he like says back is i watch the live fe and i wait for him to get my letter and i watch him read my letter and i see his reactions and you actually mail this letter like it goes to the like people mail it depends because he can only get a letter from us if he’s won hoh but he’s won like four times already wow how many people are left um it’s caleb frankie nicole victoria donnie and christine wow donnie made it farther than we thought donnie’s
Incredible dude and derek when we first watch der as well when we watch that episode did i say derek i don’t know i think you did but when we were watched the first episode in florida i thought donnie was going to be done he’s actually the only one who’s caught on to the entire entire thing of the game i mean dereck is the one who’s literally manipulating the whole house has the whole house in the palm of his is derck the one with the like the abs and the kid yeah the one who’s a cop who says he’s not a cop and then says frankie i
Actually am who i say i am wow but you’re not you’re a cop though so so much lie it’s so it’s like a crazy lying dirty drama it makes me like anxious like i’m like i can never pull that off i couldn’t do i couldn’t do it i feel like i’m sorry guys i got to go home do you think you could do it if you did the show no no i feel yeah because i i don’t know i don’t know i don’t know if i have that like i wouldn’t want to act and lie yeah not saying like frankie is like that like that but like you’re too he’s lying i feel like also like i’m
Too naive too like i’m i’m naive to the whole thing i’d play i like i’d be like i’d get off like on the like the first episode yeah i’m not sure i’m not sure i’ve had like that frankie has wanted to do it for so long i’m so happy he got the chance to do this he’s kicking ass man tour early next year really yeah what kind of tour what are we talking here a world tour like a whole world tour how crazy that was your dream tell me that you haven’t dreamed about that moment forever i have it’s insane that’s awesome it’s crazy wow i’m so excited
How do you stay grounded to everything um family yeah family yeah that’s really it family you can count on that’s really it separate what’s real from what’s not real and yeah that’s it it’s like good balance how have you grown navigating those types of things from like four years ago to now you must have learned so much god yes yeah um well i mean i don’t know this is me being really good at my job really good at your job this is you being extraordinarily good at your job i don’t know you know how i was in the beginning
I wasn’t i wasn’t as like chill with it all you trust and you trusted everyone yeah i trusted everybody and because that was you i learned very quickly to not trust everybody in hollywood i learn very quickly how sad is that though it’s so sad that makes me so sad but it just makes you apprciate the good people even more there are so many beautiful people in this world as well it’s good that you can recognize that and that you’re not like oh god everybody’s awful that you’re not tainted people get like that
Yeah no it’s good that you can still be like appreciating of good people and your family the good people who have been there for since like basically forever since i was like yeah i don’t know they’re just still there and they’re still real wow ar on a grande z saying sasha ar where do you see yourself 5 years from now happy and making music i don’t know i’ll be 26 do you want to do tv again at any point or you just want to like doic not really i love it but i would do like something if it was scary i would do an
An episode of something scary maybe or a musical something oh i love her too yeah i do too oh would you ever go back to broadway absolutely heart love to see that heartbe and you’ be here town so i have friends i would do it tonight i would step in for for galinda orie or anybody in little shop rocka heart like rocky horror that’d be a full circle thing too even though half of the shows i just named are not on broadway anymore just not running old which it is though avenue q is a back yes i think off bradway i think it’s off it’s back i
Thought is it i’m lying maybe no idea i know but you could do that what show would you want to do so much fun oh my gosh little shop is my dream that’s my dream role audy audrey audrey miss thing sorry i’m sorry sorry sorry aubrey audy audrey aubrey is drake right i know i know wow ariana grande thank you so much for stopping by good to see you i mean do you want to keep talking hang out we can talk i mean like i have no problem talking i could why is this the first time we ever interviewed all over again wait because i feel like the last times
Right it was more of just you texting me and be like i’m coming or okay i’m going to come and i’m going to stay for two hours and i’m not going to leave and i really have fun was there just an earthquake no that was a mild earthquake something just shook my chair anyone else feel an earthquake all right i don’t think i did no no okay cool i’m really tired so maybe we should call over there hallucinating we’re playing i’m playing like five of your songs at the same time what are you playing i’m playing uh the new one with big sean i’m
Playing break free i’m playing bang bang i’m playing still a problem oh wow you you have huge singles right now yeah huge singles you’re in love aren’t you i’m just stting that out there i know you yay you can you don’t have to say anything that’s good going you have five singles out right now you have five singles and a full heart and everything is going on for you everything is beautiful i’m so happy for you i love you i love you too the best my palms are sweaty i don’t want toou i just went for high five and he responded with my palm
Just like this is why z saying does not have a girlfriend he didn’t he didn’t he like you willingly were going to give him a high five and said know my palms are sweaty that’s real i love you enough not to do that to you zach i need you to really embrace the information that liz and i let you in when a pretty girl wants to high five you you you high five yeah but like i’ll fist pound okay from now on remember when you used to text me about the girls who you were talking to and i would give you advice and and you
Would talk to liz as well yeah like right and you would talk to alexa as well all my friends were helping you yeah you need to listen your friends have become my friends so i thank you for that of course yeah they’re good people everyone from aaron to alexa to tyler to delina to everybody everybody you have good people around you thank you i love them you’re lucky including you love you dude thank you z and the gang
