

"I’m a person who’s been through a lot and doesn’t know what to say about any of it to myself, let alone the world," she told Vogue. She has had to search inward, given the intense tragedies she has faced in recent years. On a superficial level, the pop singer sports a shellacked ponytail, a spray tan, and a uniform of microdresses and thigh-high boots as she belts out horny hit singles inspired by ’90s pop radio and, as she said in a 2019 Vogueinterview, "gay, divas, divas, gay, belting divas."īut beyond her polished, caricatured surface - Pharrell Williams once called her "an R-rated version of a Disney character" (via Vogue) – and her past as a hammy theater kid and a ditzy Nickelodeon character, Grande runs deep.


It’s an inadvertent reference to the idea that, at first glance, Grande herself seems like she could’ve been grown in a lab to be a bubblegum-pop star. The music video for Ariana Grande’s 2020 single "34+35" shows Grande in a white lab coat, waiting for her Rocky Horror-esque creation (also played by her) to come alive.
