{"id":271552,"date":"2019-04-18T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1033948"},"modified":"2019-04-18T18:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:00:36","slug":"ariana-grande-opens-up-about-the-dark-side-of-performing-her-music-its-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ariana-grande-opens-up-about-the-dark-side-of-performing-her-music-its-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Opens Up About the Dark Side of Performing Her Music: &#8221;It&#8217;s Hell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.446632124352\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019219\/rs_634x1024-190319122253-634-ariana-grande-GettyImages-1136748928.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ariana Grande, costumes\" alt=\"Ariana Grande, costumes\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Ariana Grande<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.420824295011\">\n<p>The one thing that makes <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ariana_grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;different from the rest is the fact that she&#8217;s open and honest with her fans.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the 25-year-old singer&nbsp;kept things real when a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LovinMyButera\/status\/1118964178943913985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fan tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;Music is your therapy and I love seeing it heal you.&#8221;&nbsp;While many expected the &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; crooner to agree with her Arianator, she revealed that&#8217;s not always the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Making it is healing,&#8221; she replied in a since-deleted tweet (which was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LovinMyButera\/status\/1118964178943913985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">captured by several fan accounts<\/a>). &#8220;Performing it is like reliving it all over again and it is hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swiftly after she commented on the post, fans rushed by her side to show an overwhelming amount of support. Many told her they &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be mad&#8221; if she ended up canceling the rest of her <em>Sweetener<\/em> tour. However, despite feeling &#8220;confused and tired,&#8221; she was adamant that she &#8220;won&#8217;t do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When a fan asked if touring was good for her health, Ari responded, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.507042253521\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5.5352112676056\">\n<p>&#8220;honestly. it&#8217;s been v hard. i have [so much] on my mind and it&#8217;s so heavy,&#8221; the &#8220;God Is a Woman&#8221; songstress&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D4d7lqeUcAENvI_.jpg:large\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a>. &#8220;but i&#8217;m trying hard.&#8221; She added <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/raysboca\/status\/1118960651253293057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in another tweet<\/a>, &#8220;i just feel empty and i wanna have more to say \/ better energy to give to u and rn i don&#8217;t have anything. love u.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.243916570104\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019315\/rs_634x1024-190415060049-634-Ariana-Grande-Coachella-LT-041519-GettyImages-1142775699.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ariana Grande, 2019 Coachella \" alt=\"Ariana Grande, 2019 Coachella \"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for AG<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16.439229843562\">\n<p>This revelation comes off the heels of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1032667\/from-thank-u-next-to-nsync-6-of-ariana-grande-s-best-moments-at-coachella\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grande&#8217;s ground-breaking 2019 Coachella performance<\/a>&nbsp;(she&#8217;s the youngest headliner for the festival).<\/p>\n<p>More recently, the 25-year-old actress opened up about her mental health struggles. Taking to her Instagram Stories, she revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1031990\/ariana-grande-shares-the-terrifying-levels-of-ptsd-she-has-in-eye-opening-instagram-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the &#8220;terrifying&#8221; levels of PTSD<\/a> she had after getting a brain scan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Didn&#8217;t mean to startle anyone with my brain thingy,&#8221; she wrote a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1032332\/ariana-grande-says-she-didn-t-mean-to-startle-fans-with-ptsd-brain-scan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sharing her brain scan picture<\/a>. &#8220;It just blew me away. I found it informative and interesting and wanted to encourage ya&#8217;ll to make sure you check on your brains \/ listen to your bodies \/ take care of yourselves too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She continued, &#8220;I love science and seeing the physical reality of what&#8217;s going on in there was incredible to me.&nbsp;I mean, I feel it all the time, but seeing it is totally different and super cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>For Ari, when she feels ready and more &#8220;healed up,&#8221; she wants to talk more openly about her PTSD.&nbsp;&#8220;I am constantly working on my health \/ learning how to process pain (aren&#8217;t we all). Everyday is different but I&#8217;m doing my best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1033948\/ariana-grande-opens-up-about-the-dark-side-of-performing-her-music-it-s-hell?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Ariana Grande The one thing that makes Ariana Grande&nbsp;different from the rest is the fact that she&#8217;s open and honest with her fans. On Thursday, the 25-year-old singer&nbsp;kept things real when a fan tweeted, &#8220;Music is your therapy and I love seeing it heal you.&#8221;&nbsp;While many expected the &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 07:04:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}