Ariana Grande has addressed her apparent new 'persona'.
The singer and actress hosted an award at last night's Oscars (March 10) alongside her Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo.
The pair star as Glinda and Elphaba retrospectively in the highly anticipated film adaption of the popular musical.
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While announcing the winner for this year's Best Original Song, many fans were left confused by Grande's apparent new accent.
One person posted on X: "Wtf happened to Ariana Grande??? I really thought everyone was exaggerating about her constantly changing personas. THE VOICE OMG THAT IS NOT ARIANA GRANDE."
"Ariana Grande really got rid of her previous accent in favor of a 60s transatlantic accent," another wrote.
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But ahead of her Oscars appearance, Grande actually addressed the changes she's been going through.
Speaking on the Zach Sang Show, which aired on the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, the 'Thank U, Next' singer said about preparing for her role of Glinda: "I tried to use that to take lessons every single day while I was doing The Voice and get ready for these audition."
She went on: "I trained every day with Nancy [Banks] and with Eric [Vetro] to transform my voice, even, like, my singing voice, everything about me, I had to deconstruct to prove to them I could handle taking on this other person."
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Grande added that she had to 'completely erase popstar Ari'.
"It's even harder to believe someone as someone else when you're so branded as one thing," she continued.
"I had to go all the way to strip that down, come into my callback with no makeup, my hair down, I looked like I was 11 years old."
Elsewhere in the interview, Grande discussed falling in love with music again.
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She released her new album, Eternal Sunshine, on Friday (March 8) - her first in three years.
On one of her new tracks, Grande appears to address some of the criticizm she's received in light of her rumored romance with Wicked co-star, Ethan Slater.
Grande doesn't explicitly mention Slater in her song 'ordinary things', but there is one lyric in particular that caught fans' attention after the criticism she's faced.
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"You hit like my biggest fan when I hear what the critiques say," it reads, followed by the line "You hit just like a green light when I'm stuck runnin' real late."
Her fans applauded her for the lyrics, saying that the 30-year-old has 'handled it wonderfully'.
Topics: Ariana Grande, Oscars, Celebrity, Film and TV
Niamh Shackleton