14 DAY TRIAL // Ariana Grande is now in Australia to promote her new album, “My Everything,” and the tour she’ll launch to support it, but her first day in the land down under didn’t exactly go as planned. She acted like a diva with members of the media and it came back to bite her in the you-know-what when the press covered the story extensively.
As it turns out, Ariana will only agree to do press for her music on her own terms, and that includes claiming the right to ask for photos she doesn’t like to be deleted. When she meets even the faintest trace of opposition, she will get up and walk out – like she did the other day, canceling an entire day’s worth of photo shoots and press meetings.
She did make it to Sunrise Australia, though
One interview that she did not cancel was with Sunrise Australia, which you will find in full in the video embedded below. Ariana did her best to come across as the likeable young pop star her handlers would have you believe she is, and thus did some very much-needed damage control after yesterday’s damaging reports.
In the interview, she talked about how morbid she was as a teen, the artists who have inspired her growing up (she didn’t mention Mariah Carey, presumably because she hates her and hates being compared to her all the time), and what it feels like to be as famous as she is at her young age.
She also met a fan who won a contest for the chance to meet and ask her a question, and then stepped outside for selfies and autographs, before a short performance.
In other words, Ariana was on her best behavior. As she very well should have been, considering that most Australian (and international too) media outlets rushed to label her an insufferable diva after the tantrum she threw on her first day in the country.
Ariana will only be photographed / shot from the left side of the face, never in natural light
Said tantrum was caused by her insistence that one of the photographers delete a photo she was unhappy with, even though it played by the rule she’d issued before the meet: never be from the right side of the face, always from the left; never be with natural light, always with artificial.
She is slowly earning a reputation for being obsessed with the left side of her face, because she considers that her best angle. That is also painfully obvious in the video below, in the many times she turns away from the people she’s talking to, to stare in the opposite direction and thus allow the camera to get her from the left side of the face.
You can imagine the kind of jokes and taunts this has prompted on social media and in the blogosphere. The same goes for Ariana’s obvious concern to always look “camera ready,” which is manifested in the way she keeps on flipping her hair, straightening her back, pouting, and posing, even when she’s in the middle of a conversation.
Pressure to always look perfect can make you do the most ridiculous things
Since every cell phone has a quality camera these days, pressure must be huge with celebrities to always look perfect. When you’re young and insecure (and reportedly have such bad skin as to make you pile on the makeup like Ariana does), this can translate into behavior that could easily be mistaken for “diva airs.”
Ariana could be terribly conceited, or she might not be. She could just be terrified she won’t look good on camera or on video, so she’s acting in such a weird manner, not aware of how badly this translates to the small screen.
She might hate the Mariah Carey comparison, but her behavior is no different from the one displayed by Mimi in an interview a while back, when she was still on American Idol, when she refused to let the camera get her from the “wrong” side of her face. You will find that video embedded below as well, if only for the reason that it’s too much fun to not see it again.
