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Now that Ariana Grande is finally closing out her Wicked era, many of us are wondering what’s next for her and her endless well of talents. She finished filming Focker In-Law earlier this month and is now gearing up for a music tour she said may be her “last hurrah.” With all that going on, it sounds like she’s also taking some time to reassess her pop-music career. In an interview with Nicole Kidman for Interview magazine, Grande explained how her approach to making music has shifted, saying, “I’ve just been healing my relationship to music and touring over the past couple of years.”
“I spent a lot of time redoing my system when it comes to making music,” Grande continued. “With Eternal Sunshine, that felt like a very different experience for me.”
It sounds like she’s learned a lot while exploring her acting chops. “I think the time away from it helped me reclaim certain pieces of it and put certain feelings that maybe belonged to my relationship to fame, or the things that come with being an artist, in a box somewhere else,” she said. “So I’ve just been taking baby steps towards healing my relationship to music and touring, and I think my time with Glinda and with acting really helped me build the strength to be able to do that.” Grande said she’s “grateful” for her pop career, but acknowledged it “held some traumas for me before.” “I feel those dissipating, and that is such an extraordinarily beautiful thing,” she said.
So what is next for our recovering Glinda? Well, if she really is taking a long hiatus from music after this tour, she won’t be be short of opportunities — apparently Universal is already plotting out a Wicked cinematic universe of sorts. If that doesn’t work out, maybe Grande could take over Rachel Zegler’s role in Evita after she inevitably brings it to Broadway and wins a Tony? I would also accept Grande as Christine in Phantom of the Opera, Eliza in My Fair Lady, or Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. And of course, Glinda on Broadway is right there. Just saying.
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