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You Didn’t Think Ariana Grande Wasn’t Gonna Sing on SNL, Did You?

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Ariana Grande is a theater kid at heart, so for her opening monologue on SNL, she obviously had to belt out a few tunes after scoring her dream role of Glinda in Wicked. “It’s every theater kid’s dream to play either Glinda or Elphaba. Well, it’s every theater kid’s dream to lose their virginity, but their second dream is to be in Wicked,” joked Grande, since band geeks usually take the crown as the horny clique. While she wasn’t the musical guest of the evening, she sang as Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus, trying to keep it lowkey— singing is lowkey for her, okay! It would be criminal if she didn’t do her Rolodex of impressions — it’s hard not to remember her Jennifer Lawrence sketch from her last hosting gig. It’s not who is this diva, it’s how many divas can she voice in one evening?

SNL: You Didn’t Think Ariana Grande Wasn’t Singing, Did You?