Last year, Ariana Grande posted a few clips from her Dangerous Woman Tour online. This got rumors swirling among fans that it meant something bigger, like a movie. And, as fans will be fans, they kept teasing Ariana on Twitter trying to get her to confirm. Well, guess what – it worked. In response to a tweet about whether some of her new music was featured in Kylie Jenner’s video to Stormi, a fan slipped this into the replies:
how the dwt movie going sis is it already done edited and stuff pic.twitter.com/d3ij3wceN5
— ryãn ☁️ (@granderuled) July 23, 2018
And lucky for us, Ariana took the bait:
no sis we are still adding to it since u love leaving me with no surprises 😭 now will u let us finish in peace pls
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) July 23, 2018
When a fan expressed her excitement, Ariana explained it wasn’t a movie but a docu-series:
let me surprise u w it but it ain’t a movie issa docuseries ! there are episodes. now pls drop it before i slice off my arms.
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) July 23, 2018
As fervor increased, Ariana answered one more question about the delay and then swore that was all we were getting:
the reason why it’s takin so long is bc we are adding stuff. dat is were we are leaving it. no more questions ab da series !
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) July 23, 2018
When she speaks of “adding stuff,” I wonder if she means current stuff? As we know, Ariana has a lot going on right now. Her new album, Sweetner, drops August 17. She just got engaged to (and just started dating) Pete Davidson and they may be tying the knot on 8/4/18 to commemorate his father’s badge number. Plus, she now sports violet hair (this isn’t quite as big gossip as the rest, I realize).
All of this begs the question about the focus of the docu-series. We know that the tragic Manchester bombing happened during the DWT, as did her amazing One Love Manchester benefit concert . Ariana grew as a person more during that tour than most do in a decade. As was evidenced in her most recent interview in ELLE, Ariana isn’t shying away from some of her previous misdeeds but rather is open about the fact that she had a lot to learn as a person and by my measure, she did. I don’t have any details on the series – like who’s directing it or collaborating on it with Ariana – but in the right hands, this could be fascinating, especially if the tone of the series changed to match her journey.
Ariana doesn’t owe us anything, of course. If she wanted to just focus on the music and tour that is also her right. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that part of her desire not to give out any more info and her hints about adding new content all points to her marrying Pete, which maybe gives more evidence to a wedding next week. I have no idea if they are right for each other as a couple, but I wish them well. *Two degrees of separation alert!* The effects director from the overseas effects house that worked on Ariana Grande’s No More Tears Left to Cry video stayed with us while they were filming it (he was The Mister’s boss years ago). He had really nice things to say about Ariana and her work ethic, which only further cemented me as one of her newly-minted fans.
Photo credit: WENN Photos and Twitter
Do people care? I guess that maybe because I’m out of the Ariana Grande demographic I just don’t see it. Even my niece who is 15 has pointed out that Ari is ‘extra’. LOL, okay. I’m old so I don’t get that.
A friend of a friend is close to her brother Frankie and has nothing but great things to say about her. Apparently she’s really kind and intelligent and humble.
She’s adorable but she looks the exact same all the damn time !
That ponytail needs to be laid to rest and the little girl style she goes for is ..a choice I guess.
She’d be so pretty with a cute shoulder length cut and toned down makeup .
And why are her tweets written that way? I can understand them but it makes me angry, lol I’m too old for this shit I guess .
Are we all just accepting that the way Ariana tweets (“ab da” “issa” “dat”) is normal now? I mean……I’m really asking if this is the future of how we’ll all write someday. Most of people I follow on Twitter are not as young as Ariana (some are!) and they don’t write like this. I’m crabby and old and need to know what is happening to the state of the written word.
Nope. Freaking annoying AF. I don’t Tweet either. LOL, if I did I sure as hell wouldn’t be following her though.
‘issa’ is/was(?) AAVE and it was soo funny when people were memeing with it
Maybe I’m out of the loop because I don’t use Twitter, but why the heck does she write like that?!
I went to one of her Dangerous Woman Tour dates! She wasn’t as engaged with her fans on the tour (this was in the U.S. and pre-Manchester). She definitely came across as not putting in a lot of effort in connecting with her fans like Beyonce or anything. The opening band Little Mix did a great job! Ariana has a great voice and her hits go a long way. This would be an interesting narrative to watch especially with all the changes in her life pre-Pete.
That’s so crazy. I had a completely different experience. I saw her in Houston at the Toyota Center and she was super engaged and cracking jokes left and right. She sang “I Have Nothing” by Whitney Houston on a piano and jested about how that was her go-to song at a gay bar or karaoke place. And she killed it! Maybe she was just having an off night?
I’m impatient for this new album.