Ariana Grande Sings About People Thinking Her Appearance Is 'Fake' on New Charli xcx Collaboration

Mar. 15, 2025

Ariana Grande on March 10, 2024 and Charli xcx on October 1, 2024.Photo:Rodin Eckenroth/Getty; Danielle Del Valle/Getty

Rodin Eckenroth/Getty; Danielle Del Valle/Getty

Ariana Grandeis laying out how speculations about her character and appearance can be painful on the remix ofCharli xcx’s “Sympathy is a Knife.”

A standout track from the British pop star’s latest albumBrat, “Sympathy is a Knife” finds Charli unpacking her insecurities and its impact on her mental health. Theremixed versionarrived Oct. 11, and Grande, 31, joined in sharing her experience in the public eye.

TheWickedstar sings: “It’s a knife when you know they’re counting on your mistakes / It’s a knife when you’re so pretty, they think it must be fake / It’s a knife when they dissect your body on the front page / It’s a knife when they won’t believe you, why should you explain?”

On a recent episode ofVanity Fair’s Lie Detector Test series, Grande confirmed she has gotten certain cosmetic procedures in the past, but some of the rumors are untrue.

“I’ve had fillers in various places and Botox, but I stopped like four years ago, and that is the extent,” she said. “But [I’m] also in full support of all people who do these things, work, whatever makes women, men, non-gender conforming people feel beautiful should be allowed. Why do we care?”

Ariana Grande at CinemaCon 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.David Becker/WireImage

David Becker/WireImage

The “Guess” performer added, “I had heard that Ari wanted to do something and I was like, this is somebody who definitely knows this feeling more so than me.”

Ariana Grande on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ on June 6, 2024.Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty

Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty

Like Grande, Lorde got vulnerable on herremixof Charli’s “Girl, So Confusing.” The two singers revealed they had a complicated relationship, partly due to physical comparisons and insecurities. On the remix, Lorde sang that she was “trapped in the hatred” and revealed she was dealing with body image issues.

Elsewhere in the Zane Lowe interview ahead of the remix album’s release, Charli said shedid not giveLorde an ample warning when the original “Girl, So Confusing” came out, and the 27-year-old New Zealand-born singer found out whenBratcame out, eventually proposing they “work it out on the remix.”

Charli and Grande’s “Sympathy Is a Knife” remix appears on the albumBrat and it’s completely different but still brat, which dropped Oct. 11.

source: people.com