Ariana Grande Talks ‘Sam & Cat’ and Single ‘Put Your Hearts Up’ Failure After Diva Rumors

Ariana Grande has been fight off a lot of shade lately. Recently, the singer/actress has been facing a slew of diva rumors. Now Grande is gracing the October cover of Marie Claire about her career, including her time on the now canceled Sam and Cat and the failure of her first single, “Put Your Hearts Up.”

Grande, who is now 21-years-old, was in a hurry to grow up when she first started out, telling Marie Claire in this month cover interview:

"I was 14 years old and ready to make an R&B album. I was like, 'Where is that Mary J. Blige collab? Where is that Natasha Bedingfield writing session? Where is my session with India.Arie? I'm ready. Let's go.'.. I wrote this song called 'Higher,' and the lyrics were too sexual, too mature. And my mom was like, 'This is a great song, but damn, you're too young for this.'"

Grande, also opened up about her role on the Nickelodeon series Sam & Cat:

"People liked her and they accepted her and they thought that I was like her. So I used to pretend to be a little more like her than I actually was."

That comparisons started to take its toll on her singing career when her first (more kid-friendly) single, “Put Your Hearts Up,” flopped:

"I was like, 'Guys, there has to be a really distinct difference between me and my character.' And we did that with 'The Way.' I dyed my hair back to brown. I made out with a rapper in the video. I made the point I wanted to make. And I was excited to do so after so many years of pretending to be somebody else in front of a lot of people."

Check out the full interview in the October issue of Marie Claire magazine.

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