'I didn’t think I was going to make an album ever again ': Ariana Grande almost quit music before filming 2024's Wicked

Ariana Grande came close to quitting music before filming 2024's Wicked.

The 32-year-old pop star has confessed that she had no desire to make a follow-up to 2020's Positions until playing the role of Glinda in the blockbuster adaptation of the hit musical reignited her "spark" for making music.

Appearing on Shut Up Evan with Evan Ross Katz, she said: “[Playing Glinda] has done so much for Ariana. It has totally rearranged everything about my relationship to creating, you know. I didn’t think I was going to make an album ever again when I left for London.

“That was kind of my secret, but I didn’t think I was going to, you know.”

The Thank U, Next hitmaker says Glinda's strong "self-belief" inspired her return to music.

She continued: “So I learned a lot from her as a character who learns so much over the course of these two films and has to look at herself in the mirror constantly and sort of peel away at the pieces of her that don’t feel aligned. So I do think that I was kind of forced to do that alongside her.”