Ariana Grande Thought She May Get ‘Murdered’ When This Singer Requested Her to Meet

Even Ariana Grande will get starstruck occasionally.

In a brand new cowl story interview with W Journal, the 31-year-old Grammy winner opened up about getting an invite to satisfy her favourite singer, Imogen Heap — and considering the second was too good to be true.

“Imogen Heap is my idol — my primary favourite musician, songwriter, producer of all time,” stated the Depraved actress. “The primary time I obtained a message from her, I assumed I used to be being catfished.”

Grande recalled, “She invited me over, and I assumed I used to be going to be murdered as a result of I didn’t imagine it was actual. She was so good. She’s sensible in each means.”

For over a decade, the Everlasting Sunshine artist has been vocal about her love of Heap, 47. In 2013, she shared a canopy of the English musician’s 2015 music “Only for Now” to her YouTube channel.

Talking to Billboard later the identical 12 months, she stated of the “Cover and Search” performer, “I’m completely her primary fan.”

“I respect her musicality a lot. Her mind is a musical heaven. Each single a part of every of her songs is so intricate and I simply can’t get sufficient of her,” defined Grande on the time.

She continued, “I like music greater than something, and she or he’s only a massive cloud of music happiness and harmonies and sounds. I simply wish to reside in her mind perpetually.”

The 2 artists quickly obtained to know one another, with Heap telling Billboard in 2018, “I feel for her twenty first birthday — her mother emailed me in some way and requested, ‘Can Ariana come over for dinner?'”

The Frou Frou member added, “So she got here to my home in the course of the countryside within the outskirts of London and I didn’t have my cellular on so I couldn’t hear her calling me and so they have been utterly misplaced going up and down this bizarre backstreet of the countryside.”

Heap was conscious of Grande’s nerves on the time: “I feel Ariana actually thought that it was an enormous setup the place she was going to get murdered.”

After they met, Grande utilized a pair of Heap’s high-tech Mi.Mu gloves — which make sound by bodily motion — on her Honeymoon Tour in 2015 whereas performing the My The whole lot album observe “Why Strive.”

The previous Nickelodeon star then recorded a reimagined model of Heap’s 2005 music “Goodnight and Go” for her 2018 album Sweetener.

“It seems like a present: when someone that well-known picks up on a music that has had its day and provides it a second life, it’s an actual reward. I feel she’s executed a beautiful model of it,” Heap, who additionally appeared at Grande’s 2017 One Love Manchester profit live performance, instructed Billboard.

Heap is presently having a second along with her 2005 music “Headlock,” which is charting around the globe on Spotify — thanks partially to a TikTok pattern that is spawned over 119,000 movies on the platform.