In a new video Ariana Grande shared on social media Tuesday, the singer came this close to falling down during a performance.
“Can’t believe we made it to the second to last show w/o me slipping on that slippery ass stool honestly I’ll take it,” the singer, 24, said of a new Instagram clip from her Dangerous Woman tour stop in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday.
Grande rebounded with a smile — and her proud mother noticed. “This is such a wonderful clip though…fans so concerned screaming, your adorable laughs & then Perfect Singing & you landed like a pro!! Xo,” tweeted Joan Grande in response to the video, above.
Ariana Grande is just about to close the curtain on her Dangerous Woman tour, but what happens behind the curtain? As the number of shows dwindles, Grande has been revealing some of the backstage shenanigans that go down before she takes the stage every night.
Caught on film by friend Alfredo Flores, Grande can be seen running around backstage in Australian arenas. She huddles with her dancers and recreates Mean Girls scenes with choreographers Scott and Brian Nicholson.
Three days after Ariana Grande wrapped up her Dangerous Woman world tour, the pop star made a pit stop in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a unity concert in the wake of the race-related violence that engulfed the city earlier this summer.
Grande was one of a handful of artists who performed at A Concert for Charlottesville on Sunday night, including Justin Timberlake, Pharrell and Chris Martin.
The 24-year-old brought out the hits, delighting the crowd with performances of “Side to Side,” “Be Alright,” “One Last Time” and “Dangerous Woman,” but it was her message to her contemporaries in the audience that made the most impact.
“I just wanted to say really quickly how proud I am to be part of a generation that is so passionate about creating a change and making things better,“ Grande told the crowd made up of members of the University of Virginia and Charlottesville communities. “To be part of a generation that refuses to be silent, I’m so proud. Keep using your voices and making this a safer place for each other. I love you. Celebrate each other and our differences.”
Pop star Ariana Grande heads up the latest tally of Hot Tours (see list below), based on final box office counts reported from her Dangerous Woman Tour, which wrapped in September.
Stretching over seven months, Grande's world tour covered five continents during its run that ended with an overall gross topping $71 million. At 75 headlining performances worldwide, the overall number of sold tickets totaled just over 875,000.
The tour launched on February 3 and began with a trek through 36 cities in the U.S. and Canada through mid-April. The European leg that followed kicked off on May 8, but was postponed two weeks later after the terrorist attack that occurred after her performance at Manchester Arena.
She returned to the road on June 4 and began the remainder of the European run with the One Love Manchester concert, held at the city’s Old Trafford Cricket Ground, benefiting the Manchester Arena’s bombing victims and families. The tour’s subsequent jaunts through markets in Latin America, Asia and Oceania continued through Sept. 21, wrapping with a finale held at Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Arena.
Cancer is eating away at Jordan Rodriguez, a 15-year-old suburban Kansas City teen. He fought medulloblastoma — a malignant brain tumor that affects kids — for almost three years. It looked like he'd beaten it, too. But last month, doctors said the cancerous tumor was back and had spread to his spine, his tailbone and his chest.
Spend your time doing the things you love, the doctors at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City told Jordan and his family. One of the Oak Grove teen's top priorities is a dance with his mom, Jenn Bales, and he's been practicing
The teen, who was first diagnosed in April 2015, put together a bucket list. It includes a visit to Clearwater, Florida. He wants to go to Universal Studio to visit the Hogwarts castle featured in the "Harry Potter" movies, and he wants to see an NBA basketball game — preferably one in which the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Cleveland Cavaliers or the Golden State Warriors play. He wants to go to a live concert and see one of his favorite pop stars.
"Also, this may be a long shot," Britni Brayfield wrote on a GoFundMe page created to help fund his bucket list, "but he would love to meet Ariana Grande."