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Billie Eilish Interviews Ariana Grande at ‘Wicked’ Screening, Goes Full Fangirl: ‘My Brother Used to Be Like: Don’t Call Her ‘Ari,’ You Don’t Know Her!’
Ariana Grande was interviewed by Billie Eilish, in full fan-girl mode, following a screening of 'Wicked' for Academy members in Hollywood.
No one lauds the “ Wicked ” quite like Billie Eilish, at least when she is in full Ariana Grande fangirl mode, as she was in interviewing her longtime singing heroine after a screening of the movie musical in Hollywood Tuesday night. Grande’s first anecdote was to retell the oft-told story of how, in the early days of putting together the music for the film, there was a proposed arrangement of “Popular” with a bit of a modern rhythm, which she said she gingerly told Stephen Schwartz felt out of character. “I do feel like in a way like the nerdy Oz historian that worked on the movie — I felt like a protective nerd, like the gatekeeping fan girl in the room… How different would life be today if ‘Popular’ had trap drums in it?
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