{"id":403972,"date":"2026-01-10T10:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403972\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:18:07","slug":"id-need-an-extra-brain-to-drop-new-music-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403972\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d \u2018Need an Extra Brain\u2019 to Drop New Music Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The singer was clarifying a previous red carpet comment she made about a music timeline<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ariana-grande\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ariana-grande\" data-tag=\"ariana-grande\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a> isn\u2019t thinking about making new music \u2014 at least not right now. On Friday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/wicked-for-good-review-ariana-grande-cynthia-erivo-1235464329\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked<\/a> star clarified comments she made to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/awards\/ariana-grande-defends-cynthia-erivo-wicked-for-good-awards-snubs-1236626867\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Variety<\/a>, joking that she\u2019d need \u201can extra brain and four more arms\u201d to take on a new album at the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe trade outlet initially reported that Grande said there was \u201cdefinitely not\u201d new music coming \u201cbefore May,\u201d adding a message to fans: \u201cI love them so much, but sometimes I want to ask, \u2018Do you think there\u2019s another version of me out there who had time to write an album?\u2019 Not yet \u2014 but soon enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBut in a follow-up Instagram comment, Grande pushed back on that framing. \u201cWelp, I never said \u2018but soon enough\u2019 or mentioned any months! lol my goooooodness,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAll i said was \u2018no\u2019 and \u2018do they think there\u2019s a clone of me out there somewhere\u2019! there must\u2019ve been a Zoom glitch or something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe mention of a month in the year led some fans to believe that perhaps she would be sharing new music during her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ariana-grande-eternal-sunshine-tour-tease-critics-choice-1235493962\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eternal Sunshine tour,<\/a> which is scheduled for this summer. In a separate comment on that post, she wrote, \u201cMa\u2019am i would need an extra brain and four more arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBack in November, she said that her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ariana-grande-eternal-sunshine-tour-1235076531\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eternal Sunshine run<\/a> was going to be her \u201clast hurrah.\u201d She told Amy Poehler in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ariana-grande-tour-last-hurrah-1235467341\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> podcast interview<\/a>, \u201cI do know that I\u2019m very excited to do this small tour, but I think it might not happen again for a long, long, long, long, long time. I\u2019m going to give it my all and it\u2019s going to be beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOver the weekend, she<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ariana-grande-eternal-sunshine-tour-tease-critics-choice-1235493962\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> told E! News<\/a> she was working on the set list for \u201cmonths now\u201d and that she\u2019ll be starting rehearsals \u201cvery soon.\u201d Grande is set to start her tour on June 6 with a trio of shows in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The singer was clarifying a previous red carpet comment she made about a music timeline Ariana Grande isn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[24871,64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-403972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ariana-grande","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}