Courtesy BillboardA defiant Ariana Grande covers Billboard’s Women in Music issue, and announces, “I don’t want to do what people tell me to do, I don’t want to conform to the pop star agenda. I want to do it on my own terms from now on.”
What does that mean? Billboard‘s Woman of the Year explains, “If I want to tour two albums at once, I’m going to tour two albums at once. If I want to drop a third album while I’m on tour I’ll do that too!”
“.I want to be able to do what is authentic and honest and natural. It’s the only way that I’ve been able to survive.”
But wait — there’s more.
“My dream has always been to…put out music in the way that a rapper does,” Ariana tells Billboard. That means without endless planning, set-up, promotion and radio support.
“I feel like there are certain standards that pop women are held to that men aren’t,” she notes. “It’s just like, ‘Bruh, I just want to…talk to my fans and sing and write music and drop it the way these boys do. Why do they get to make records like that and I don’t?’ So I do and I did and I am, and I will continue to.”
The cover story also reveals that Ari’s new album, also called Thank U, Next, was “mostly written in a week” and “recorded in two weeks.” She says the album was “the product of a lot of feminine energy and champagne and music and laughter and crying.”
This [album’s] not particularly uplifting,” Ariana says. “A lot of it sounds really upbeat, but it’s actually a super sad chapter.”
She adds: “I just want to be happy and healthy — one day — and make music.”
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