{"id":485374,"date":"2019-05-02T15:46:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=829962"},"modified":"2019-05-02T15:46:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:46:35","slug":"watch-ariana-grandes-scintillating-7-rings-bbmas-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-ariana-grandes-scintillating-7-rings-bbmas-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Ariana Grande\u2019s Scintillating \u20187 Rings\u2019 BBMAs Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-02-at-5.39.18-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ariana-grande\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ariana-grande\" data-tag=\"ariana-grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a> performed a glitzy \u201c7 Rings\u201d at the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billboard-music-awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billboard-music-awards\" data-tag=\"billboard-music-awards\">Billboard Music Awards<\/a> on Wednesday. The <em>Thank U, Next<\/em> single \u2014 cleverly interpolated with \u201cMy Favorite Things\u201d from <em>The Sound of Musi<\/em>c \u2014 has spent the last 14 weeks on the charts.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to her performance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QBopad4C5q4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">last year at the BBMAs<\/a>\u2014in which Grande surfaced from beneath the stage strewn across umbrellas\u2014the pop singer was lifted onto the stage by a graffitied car. \u201cRather be tied up with calls and not strings\/<br \/>Write my own checks like I write what I sing,\u201d she belted, surrounded by her backup dancers basked in pink fluorescent lights.<\/p>\n<p>A sea of screaming <em>arianators<\/em> sang every word along with Grande, gleefully chanting \u201cI see it, I like it, I want it, I got it\u201d over and over. (Unlike last year, Shawn Mendes, Taylor Swift and Camila Cabello were not seen dancing and mouthing the lyrics in their seats.)<\/p>\n<p>Grande also performed \u201cBe Alright,\u201d which aired exclusively online via T-Mobile. Three years later, the <em>Dangerous Woman<\/em> track still holds up, as Grande pranced around the stage in her thigh-high white boots, signature ponytail swinging side to side.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.1509433962264\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">We&#8217;re giving you MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArianaGrande?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@ArianaGrande<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBMAs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#BBMAs<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy an exclusive performance of &#8220;Be Alright&#8221; handpicked by Ari, just for you ? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBMAsWithUs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#BBMAsWithUs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LYcJWsAei8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LYcJWsAei8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 T-Mobile (@TMobile) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMobile\/status\/1123786937448509440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">May 2, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Grande is currently halfway through her <em>Sweetener<\/em> tour. She\u2019ll begin the first of four California dates tomorrow at San Jose\u2019s SAP Center, wrapping up the tour on June 18th at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ariana-grande-7-rings-billboard-music-awards-829962\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariana Grande performed a glitzy \u201c7 Rings\u201d at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards on Wednesday. The Thank U, Next single \u2014 cleverly interpolated with \u201cMy Favorite Things\u201d from The Sound of Music \u2014 has spent the last 14 weeks on the charts. Similar to her performance last year at the BBMAs\u2014in which Grande surfaced from [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 14:18:12","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}