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Now that Ariana Grande is finally closing out her Wicked era, many of us are wondering what\u2019s next for her and her endless well of talents. She finished filming Focker In-Law<\/a> earlier this month and is now gearing up for a music tour she said may be her \u201clast hurrah.\u201d<\/a> With all that going on, it sounds like she\u2019s also taking some time to reassess her pop-music career. In an interview with Nicole Kidman for Interview<\/a> magazine, Grande explained how her approach to making music has shifted, saying, \u201cI\u2019ve just been healing my relationship to music and touring over the past couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI spent a lot of time redoing my system when it comes to making music,\u201d Grande continued. \u201cWith Eternal Sunshine, that felt like a very different experience for me.\u201d<\/p>\n It sounds like she\u2019s learned a lot while exploring her acting chops. \u201cI think the time away from it helped me reclaim certain pieces of it and put certain feelings that maybe belonged to my relationship to fame, or the things that come with being an artist, in a box somewhere else,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I\u2019ve just been taking baby steps towards healing my relationship to music and touring, and I think my time with Glinda and with acting really helped me build the strength to be able to do that.\u201d Grande said she\u2019s \u201cgrateful\u201d for her pop career, but acknowledged it \u201cheld some traumas for me before.\u201d \u201cI feel those dissipating, and that is such an extraordinarily beautiful thing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n So what is next for our recovering Glinda? Well, if she really is taking a long hiatus from music after this tour, she won\u2019t be be short of opportunities \u2014 apparently Universal is already plotting out a Wicked cinematic universe<\/a> of sorts. If that doesn\u2019t work out, maybe Grande could take over Rachel Zegler\u2019s role in Evita after she inevitably brings it to Broadway and wins a Tony? I would also accept Grande as Christine in Phantom of the Opera, Eliza in My Fair Lady, or Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. And of course, Glinda on Broadway is right there. Just saying. <\/p>\n Stay in touch.<\/p>\n Get the Cut newsletter delivered daily<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n