On Friday, Ariana Grande reminded her followers that, regardless of her many skills, she’s a vocalist first. The Grammy award winner is presently on the set of the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Depraved, simply one thing she’s doing in between albums and internet hosting The Voice.
Grande shared a TikTok wherein she’s responding to individuals who have been fairly rudely asking, “Why aren’t you continue to a singer?”
Underneath the video, she wrote, “[I’m] actually on set filming two musical motion pictures all day on daily basis,” together with a number of crying emojis. Within the TikTok itself, she stays on theme for Depraved and sings an unaccompanied cowl of “Someplace Over the Rainbow,” probably the most iconic tune from The Wizard of Oz, on which Depraved is predicated. And she or he sounds beautiful.
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“Needed to sing you somewhat one thing however do not wish to sing something that’s not ‘Ozian’ for the time being,” Grande added within the caption. “Maintaining to my little bubble for now. Performed with numerous love.”
Within the clip, Grande is hiding her blonde hair beneath an outsized knit sweater. The brand new look is for her character, Glinda. The musical artist is starring throughout from actress Cynthia Erivo, who performs the primary character, Elphaba, the misunderstood “Depraved Witch of the West.”
Erivo shared Grande’s submit in her Tales on Instagram, writing, “She is and all the time will probably be a singer, she simply occurs to have the ability to do greater than that!!! Now…as you had been…we’re working!!!”
In February, Erivo informed E! Information’ Laverne Cox on the 2022 Display Actors Guild Awards purple carpet that the venture has been wonderful.
“Earlier than I even went to do the audition I knew that music just like the again of my hand. I used to be doing it at drama college and sneaking as much as the piano room and simply studying all of it,” she mentioned. “So I feel it is about studying the music, studying the story, discovering our type of means via it.”
She added, “Ariana and I’ve been assembly and chatting and speaking and constructing our personal relationship as a result of we all know that it is a sisterhood and we wish to be prepared and ready to be there for each other… It is probably the most pleasant factor ever. We sat for like three hours on the ground of my home and simply chatted and talked about every part.”
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first e book, The Lonely Hunter, will probably be launched by Dial Press in February 2022.
