Ariana Grande‘s acquired her personal distinct voice, however she will be able to nonetheless imitate nearly any large singer in Hollywood … paying tribute to some unimaginable feminine vocalists throughout her tongue-in-cheek “Saturday Night Live” monologue.
The singer-songwriter hosted ‘SNL’ for the second time … having first helmed this system method again in 2016 — mentioning how when she hosted final time, America additionally had a feminine nominee for president, and hoping it goes higher for Kamala Harris than Hillary Clinton.
Grande then says she’s fortunate she’s to star within the film model of the Broadway present “Wicked” — set for launch subsequent month — earlier than including she does not plan on singing throughout this present, simply taking over host duties.
After all, the gag is she’s handed a mic nearly instantly … and launches right into a three-minute+ sing-song monologue — doing every little thing she promise-sings she will not.
One of the spectacular moments … Ariana saying she will not sing like Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus or Gwen Stefani — earlier than hitting each notice similar to they might. Ya gotta hear it to consider it.
She additionally cracked a depraved “Wicked” joke … saying she would not speak concerning the new flick — earlier than working into Bowen Yang completely decked out in Glinda pink and telling him the sketch has been reduce.
Ariana did extra singing within the present than her monologue suggests … singing to some extent in about half of the aired sketches — so, she did not take the night time off as a lot as she joked she may.
Nevertheless, Stevie Nicks dealt with efficiency duties on the night time … so Ariana did get to get pleasure from a pair brief breaks in-between fast modifications.
Ariana did not do a Nicks impression through the present … however, she nailed nearly everybody else — and, acquired fairly just a few laughs too!