Ariana Grande has credited her hit album ‘Thank U, Next’ with “saving my life” during a dark period of time for the pop singer.On the latest episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast with Ariana Grande, the singer-actress opened up about her mental health struggles in the past and how music helped her move forward.‘Thank U, Next’ came just a couple of short months after the release of her 2018 album ‘Sweetener’ and was written and recorded in the span of just two weeks, which is something Ariana Grande has said she “needed”.She explained to The Hollywood Reporter: “I was doing so much therapy, and I was dealing with PTSD and all different kinds of grief and depression and anxiety.
I was, of course, treating it very seriously, but having music be a part of that remedy was absolutely contributing to saving my life.
They were dark times, and the music brought so much levity.”Listen to Ariana Grande’s chat with The Hollywood Reporter‘s ‘Awards Chatter’ below.With ‘Thank U, Next’ coming so soon after ‘Sweetener’, Grande admitted that it was something her record label was “hesitant” about, but she saw it as “a means of survival”.
She said: “The label understood that, but they were also very hesitant to stop Sweetener dead in its tracks and move onto an album so quickly… I just said, ‘I don’t really care about the formula.
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