Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Ariana Grande Reveals Making Thank U, Next Was an Absolute Necessity for Her Mental Health

Ariana Grande revealed that making her 2018 album Thank U Next Was an absolute necessity...for her mental health at the time...

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Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. While an A Grande
is leaning into her work as an actress ahead of
the Academy Awards, where she's nominated for Best Supporting Actress
for Wicked, she's also reflecting on one of her most
notable projects as a pop star, twenty eighteen's chart topping
thank You Next, and how critical making it was to
her mental health. Ariana shared on the Hollywood Reporters Awards
Chatter podcast she needed to make music as part of

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her therapy following the attack on her Manchester concert, as
was as the loss of Rex mac miller, admitting the
music brought her necessary levity during a dark chapter in
her life. She says music poured out of me and
it was made with urgency. It was a means of survival.
The label understood that, but they were also hesitant to
stop Sweetener, my prior album, dead in the Tracks and

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move on to an album so quickly. But I didn't
care about the formula or played by the rules. It
was what I needed for my soul. That's sorry and
Grandees speaking on her album thank You Next, and her
instincts paid off. The projects spent two weeks at number
one The title track spent seven weeks on top Wickeed,
currently on VOD that's direct from Hollywood.