Ariana Grande is aware of her growing reputation as an insane diva, you guys. She’s making an effort. An effort to show us the right side of her face. Briefly! Then she pivots away from being photographed on her right side or full-on, so that people get the left side of her face. These are photos of Ariana at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas on Friday. Note the little cat ears. Cute.
Did you know that all of the artists that appear at the iHeartRadio fest are barely paid? It’s true. They’re paid in exposure and a chance to suck up to radio executives. Nicki Minaj was there too, although she didn’t walk the carpet. Minaj and Grande performed “Bang Bang” together, without Jessie J. Here’s a video:
It’s not bad. It’s actually better than the VMA performance, maybe because Ariana wasn’t trying to do one too many things as she performed, like sing, dance and only show the left side.
Speaking of the VMAs, I never got the chance to dedicate a post to this, but this story has come up a lot in the past few weeks, as every media outlet has piled on with their own stories about Ariana’s crazy and rude behavior. Just before the VMAs, MTV launched a contest for Ariana’s fans, and the winners would get to meet her a few days before the VMAs, then the winners would get to attend the VMAs. A young girl was one of the winners, and her father wrote a lengthy blog post about exactly what went down at the meet & greet – you can read the post here. Ariana spent all of 15 seconds with the contest winners, she demanded that her fans delete their photos of her and she and her people were just completely unpleasant. To make matters worse, after the dad’s blog post went viral, Ariana’s people got in touch with the dad and asked him to take it down or “correct” it. He refused and wrote another post about how Ariana’s people treated his family – go here to read.
There are now some legit media outlets calling out Ariana for her behavior and questioning whether she’s really ready for the spotlight (the spotlight she sought out for so many years). While I think it’s good that she’s a “nice girl from Boca” and she’s not a cracked-out mess, I do think she’s getting bad advice and she needs some “handlers” who will be honest with her about her new image as an unhinged diva.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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