Ariana Grande, "Dangerous Woman" and passionate feminist, echoed a point in her Billboard cover interview that Selena Gomez has been trying to make since last October: Stop defining Selena—or any other woman—by her ex-boyfriend. "I'll never be able to swallow the fact that people feel the need to attach a successful woman to a man when they say her name," she said, with the reporter noting she was alluding to the Justin Bieber–Selena Gomez relationship. "I saw a headline—draw your own conclusions [on the subjects] because it'll be so much drama that I don't want—they called someone another someone's ex, and that pissed me off. This person has had so many great records in the last year, and she hasn't been dating him forever. Call her by her name!"
Ariana got very heated about this. "I hate it. Like, I'm fuming. Sorry. You opened up...I need to take a sip of water and breathe. Don't get me started on this shit."
Like Selena, Ariana also transitioned into pop stardom from a Nickelodeon/Disney past. "When you're playing a zany character on a kids' show, people don't want to vilify you as much," she said of the differences. "They're a lot harder on pop artists—they're unafraid to hurt you."
Ariana herself doesn't try to invite attacks—and wouldn't join any Twitter feud. "If people are fighting, I stay as far away as possible," she said. "I've said this a million times: I hate drama. I love women in the industry. I'm a big fan of all my peers, and I try to keep it a hundred."
But she isn't okay with the double standards between male and female artists, showing Billboard a few tweets she saved of an outlet praising Justin Bieber and Zayn Malik for going topless and criticizing Miley Cyrus and Kim Kardashian for doing the same. "If you're going to rave about how sexy a male artist looks with his shirt off, and a woman decides to get in her panties or show her boobies for a photo shoot, she needs to be treated with the same awe and admiration," she said. "I will say it until I'm an old-ass lady with my tits out at Whole Foods. I'll be in the produce aisle, naked at 95, with a sensible ponytail, one strand of hair left on my head and a Chanel bow. Mark my words. See you there with my 95 dogs."
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