RM On set, you and I were talking about your new album and you were playing me tracks. Tell me about the Moonlight experience.

AG Well, Moonlight is very honest and very special to me. I feel like this is the most personal music I’ve made, by far. I’m very proud of it and I’m very excited. It’s scary…it’s vulnerable and kind of terrifying.

RM Well, everybody at this point knows that you’ve gone through a high-profile breakup this year. Some of the stuff you’ve been going through in your personal life, have you written songs about it? Any cathartic power anthems?

AG You know, people found out quite a while after it actually happened. By the time I was writing the new album, I had kind of moved on. It’s not going to be captured on the album too much. I’m in a happy place. There aren’t any breakup anthems because I had moved on. I was like, alright. Well, **** it.

RM From what I remember, it sounds very romantic and adult. It felt like a real leap forward in your artistic life, like you’re becoming more of a woman. Do you feel that about the album?

AG Yeah I actually do feel that way. I’m really glad that’s what you took away from it. I’ve been feeling a lot more empowered, and grown up, and independent. I think that’s part of the reason I didn’t want to make a pissed-off break-up song. I was not focused on that. Everything is nice and great right now…why would I write about some ********? I’d rather write about some really lovely things that are going on.

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RM They were kind of vicious. Now, every generation has people that the media label as divas. You are a strong young woman and you sort of handle your own career. Nobody gives you **** or tells you what to do. But the media has translated that into, Oh, Ariana’s a diva. I’m here to say that’s not true. I’ve worked with a lot of actresses and a lot of times they do their scene and flee back to the trailer and they’re treated a certain way. You’re not that way at all.

AG It’s sort of the media’s job to make things up in order to keep their audience interested. In a way, I kind of understand them. But I don’t really look at the Internet anymore. The only reason I go on is to post things for my fans. I don’t read anything anymore because I came to an understanding that, okay, sometimes these people are going to say nice things, and sometimes they’re going to say fake things because they need to keep their readers curious and interested.

RM Well, I’m here to tell people you’re not a diva at all. In fact, you are the most down to earth person…your mom was around on set, she’s a ball, I love her. You’re sort of the most cool girl to hang with. I was obsessed with how everybody kept telling me that Ariana would be carried from her trailer to the set by her bodyguard. I’m like…that’s not true! She’s not carried around! Where did that ridiculous thing come from?

AG I posted a picture with my friend Gryphon carrying me after a video shoot because I was doing pointe. At this point I hadn’t done pointe in like, five years. So I was up on my box all day on a 15-hour shoot, and to go from not doing pointe for five years to being on your tippy-toes for a 15-hour shoot day, you’re pretty much ****ed at the end of the day. My friend Gryphon was carrying me and I posted a cute picture of it. So of course the media turned it into some evil thing. But hey, Gryphon and I had a good laugh about it.

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Originally posted by MarquiseDiamond Seeing that ponytail again makes me sad, it's so dry and ugly. Please Jesus let her retire that hair for her new era. I'm ready to her her new mature music

Originally posted by Roman Holiday I'm loving the way Moonlight is being described. Glad to hear it feels more personal.

I think that’s part of the reason I didn’t want to make a pissed-off break-up song. I was not focused on that. Everything is nice and great right now…why would I write about some ********? I’d rather write about some really lovely things that are going on.

I can show skin and swear like a sailor but also be a good role model. I think that I’m a good person. I don’t think cursing makes you a bad person. I don’t think showing skin or kissing boys makes you a bad person. I don’t think that expressing sexuality makes you a bad person at all. I don’t think that’s bad…I think it’s great! We need to encourage each other to do what we want and not let it totally define us.

Originally posted by xtina10 Terrible photo shoot. They could do so much better!

Good thing it wasn't a photoshoot and those are pictures a friend took of her and uploaded to IG

Anyway I'm excited at the description of the album, I'm here for a more grown up Ari

There aren’t any breakup anthems because I had moved on.

Originally posted by Owenrm "talks about CD" is this 1996 mexico?

RM Did you know that I got death threats from people who wrote me on Twitter that if I dared to make you cut the high pony for your role on Scream Queens that I would be killed?

SO I'm done with the full article and Ariana has some horror movie coming out soon

By the time I was writing the new album, I had kind of moved on. It’s not going to be captured on the album too much. I’m in a happy place. There aren’t any breakup anthems because I had moved on. I was like, alright. Well, **** it.

From what I remember, it sounds very romantic and adult.