How Ariana Grande One Love Manchester' Made Her a Star in the U.K.

[Born To Slay 10,996]

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7825656/ariana-grande-uk-star-manchester-one-love-concert

A month ago, Ariana Grande was famous in Britain, but not ubiquitous: though her 3 albums all reached the U.K. charts' top ten, most Britons hadn’t heard of her unless they listened to pop radio or had an Arianator in the family. Even when her May 22 show at Manchester Arena became the site of a suicide bombing that left 22 victims dead and 119 injured — the worst terrorist atrocity on British soil since 2005 — the public had little sense of who Grande was, beyond a name in the news.

But by the end of the One Love Manchester concert at the city’s Emirates Old Trafford cricket ground last Sunday, she was not just known but loved on a national scale. The Sun, Britain’s biggest-selling tabloid newspaper, summed up the transformation flippantly but not inaccurately: “People have gone from thinking she was a Starbucks coffee to wanting her to be Prime Minister.”

There are certain musicians who can be relied upon to shoulder an audience’s emotional weight in the aftermath of a tragedy. The likes of Bono, Springsteen and Chris Martin have consistently found the right words, gestures and songs to turn a concert into a ritual of healing. The task was a much taller order for a 23-year-old who had been perilously close to the horror, and was still surely processing her own trauma. But Grande was moved by a sense of moral obligation; as her manager Scooter Braun, who appeared onstage, recalled, she told him: “If we do nothing I can’t live with that. We must do something.”

[SlayGagaloo 16,152]

Good for her 

[smokingthemall 1,596]

QUEEN 

[Luke78619 23,315]

"most Britons hadn’t heard of her unless they listened to pop radio or had an Arianator in the family"

seriously? Everyone I know knows her 

[Blade 5,603]

Only the new princess of pop 

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

The title to me screams commercialism, which feels inappropriate, but its actually quite a nice sentiment.

Bless you Ariana

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8 minutes ago, monster78619 said:

"most Britons hadn’t heard of her unless they listened to pop radio or had an Arianator in the family"

seriously? Everyone I know knows her 

everyone I know who doesn't listen to pop radio doesn't know her.

[SlayGagaloo 16,152]

I thought she had no success there  But Both Problem and Bang Bang peaked at #1 (official chart) 

[Panchecco 17,626]

I think she is the most successful/popular artist from the new generation of Disney girls

even more successful than Miley and Selena imo

[Luke78619 23,315]

21 minutes ago, Algorithm said:

everyone I know who doesn't listen to pop radio doesn't know her.

But... why does my grandad know her 

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11 minutes ago, Panchecco said:

I think she is the most successful/popular artist from the new generation of Disney girls

even more successful than Miley and Selena imo

She's a Nickelodeon girl 

[stir the pot 3,824]

Just now, monster78619 said:

But... why does my grandad know her 

i was joking

well it's Billboard, so...

[Luke78619 23,315]

Just now, Algorithm said:

i was joking

well it's Billboard, so...

Oh  mess

[Panchecco 17,626]

1 minute ago, bliaz said:

She's a Nickelodeon girl 

oh...

[Gypsy Life 118,907]

Everyone will forget about this in a few weeks, just like they do after each tragedy.