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Days later, Grande performs the song on Ellen alongside co-writers Victoria Monet and Tayla Parx, re-creating a scene from The First Wives Club in a preview of coming attractions. 1, where it will stay - with one brief interruption by Travis Scott - for seven weeks. (For what it's worth, Davidson wishes her the best on that night's 'Weekend Update.') The song goes supernova, debuting at No. Far from a diss track, it is an earnest recognition of loves lost, thanking Grande's famous exes by name and reflecting on their time together without snark or spite. 3, shortly before SNL goes to air, the single 'thank u, next' is surprise-released. 'thank u, next' single and video released 'I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety & prayed for his balance for years (and always will of course) but shaming / blaming women for a man's inability to keep his s*** together is a very major problem.' 'I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be,' she writes. Later, when a tweet from a fan seems to blame the breakup for Miller's relapse, Grande fires back. On May 17, news outlets report that Miller - who is candid in his music and interviews about his struggles with addiction - has been arrested and charged with a DUI after crashing his car into a power pole. 'I respect and adore him endlessly and am grateful to have him in my life in any form, at all times regardless of how our relationship changes,' she writes.

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1GPM6smsBu- Ariana Grande May 23, 2018Īfter nearly two years of dating and many more of collaborating - beginning with a duet on Grande's first Top 10 song, the 2013 piano-led R&B ode ' The Way' - the artist acknowledges on Instagram that she and rapper Mac Miller are no longer together.

Near the end of the event, Grande performs a triumphant, tearful rendition of 'Over the Rainbow.' She later tells The Fader the song was a favorite of her late grandfather: 'When I was getting ready to do it, I was thinking about him and I felt his presence so heavily around me.' The concert raises $3 million for the Manchester Emergency Fund, and the city names Grande its first-ever honorary citizen.

Two weeks later, Grande returns to Manchester Arena for One Love Manchester, a benefit concert for the families affected, featuring performances by Katy Perry, Coldplay, Justin Bieber and others. i don't have words,' and postpones her tour. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. since the London Underground attacks in 2005, which kills 22 and injures over 100. While on tour in England behind her third album, 2016's Dangerous Woman, Grande's concert at Manchester Arena is struck by a terrorist bombing, the deadliest in the U.K.

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She has enough traction to host and perform on Saturday Night Live, all while doing voice-over work and duetting with John Legend and Stevie Wonder for movie soundtracks. Getty Images/Dave Hogan for One Love ManchesterĪt this point, Grande is a star, if not quite a superstar. Here's a timeline of the fervent period leading up to this week's release.Īriana Grande performs on Jin Manchester, England for the One Love Manchester benefit concert. Teased in late 2018 with the surprise drop of its confessional title track, it is Grande's most anticipated project yet - promising a glimpse at what her life, as one of the most visible figures in pop culture, looks like in 2019. In the process, the 25-year-old has transformed in the public eye: from a pop wunderkind with a mighty voice to a figure whose every move of late redefines what modern pop stardom can look like.

Plenty of artists have channeled real trauma into their work or spun gossip into gold, but particularly in the past year, Grande has seemed to do so almost in real time. But somewhere between her debut in 2013 - which found her stepping out of the Nickelodeon shows where she made her name and into young adult pop and R&B - and the impending release of her fifth album, thank u, next, she has pulled off a rare evolution. 6, 2018 in New York City.Īriana Grande hasn't always been a superstar, at least not in the world-stopping, internet-breaking way that defines the icons of the current pop generation. Ariana Grande attends Billboard's 2018 Women in Music event on Dec.

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