Ariana Grande Teases New Music at Oscars 2025 Despite Saying She Was Going to Focus on Acting: 'Keep Your Eyes Peeled'

Mar. 15, 2025

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Ariana Grandemight have a pop music surprise coming down the pipeline!

On the red carpet at the 2025Oscarson March 2, theWickedstar, 31, teased new music may be on the horizon, less than four months afterrevealing her plans to focus on musical theater.

When asked about the deluxe edition of her 2024 albumEternal Sunshinebeing “in the can,” Grande toldVariety, “The next step is… It means it must come out.”

However, the Grammy winner — who is nominated at the Oscars for Best Supporting Actress for her role inWicked— played coy about an exact release date.

“They did the Brighter Days Memory Erasure treatment to me so I’m having trouble remembering the details,” she teased, referring to the fictional clinic in the 2004 filmEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. “They’re foggy, because at the Brighter Days Clinic, they do the Memory Erasure.”

She joked that details about the upcoming project are “a little foggy,” adding, “I’ll have to go back to the clinic and see if they can restore my memory.”

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When asked if the release would be “soon,” the “Thank U, Next” singer replied, “So you have to learn the language of my fans because soon means 10 days or less. I’m not allowed to use that word at this moment.”

“So, it’s not less than 10 days?” host Marc Malkin pressed and she responded, “I’m not going to use that word today. I’ll say that.”

“Just keep your eyes peeled… That’s all I’m saying,” she concluded.

Ariana Grande attends the “Wicked: Part One” European Premiere at The Royal Festival Hall on November 18, 2024 in London, England.WireImage

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“It is my heart,” she said of acting. “I’m gonna say something so scary — it’s gonna scare the absolute s— out of my fans and everyone, but I love them, and they’ll deal, and we’ll be here forever. I’m always going to make music, I’m always going to go on stage, I’m always going to do pop stuff, I pinky promise. But I don’t think doing it at the rate I’ve been doing it for the past 10 years is where I see the next 10 years.”

For Grande, Broadway would be a return to her theater roots.

“Reconnecting with this part of myself who started in musical theater, and who loves comedy, and it heals me to do that — finding roles to use these parts of myself and put them in little homes and characters and bits and voices and songs,” said Grande, who performed in13: The Musicalas a child. “Whatever makes sense, or whatever roles we see fit, or where I could really do a good job or honor the material, I would really love to. I think it’s a lot better for me. I’m getting emotional.”

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