Ariana Grande is sharing a career change that will scare the ‘absolute s**t’ out of her fans

Ariana Grande says she will “always” make music – but also wants to spread her wings.

The “Bad‘, the star announced on Wednesday while discussing her career, including two Grammyssix Number 1 albums And multiple Guinness World Records that she will leave pop in the coming decade and return to her original passion: musical theater.

“I’m going to say something scary,” Grande told Las Culturistas podcast hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. “It will scare my fans and everyone. I love them, and they will negotiate, and we will be here forever.

“I’m always going to make music,” the 31-year-old continued. “I always go on stage. I’m always going to do pop stuff, I promise. But I don’t think I see the pace in the next 10 years that I’ve been doing in the last 10 years.”

Grande has been on a whirlwind press tour for the upcoming adaptation of Broadway’s ‘Wicked,’ in which she plays a benevolent witch opposite Cynthia Erivo‘s title, saying Wednesday that it reminded her how important this creative outlet really is to her.

“I love musical theater, reconnecting with this part of me that started in musical theater and loves comedy,” Grande said. “And it heals me to do that, to find roles to use these parts of myself and put them into little houses and characters and bits and voices and songs.”

Many were apparently confused when Grande suddenly her voice changed completely halfway through the interview in June while promoting the film, but the singer explained later that she “played a character every day for a long time” and has a very large, trained vocal range.

Grande also decried the double standard at the time when male actors were praised for their “brilliant” physical transformations while women like her were put “under such a microscope” of judgement, saying it’s a “strange” thing to experience personally.

While the former child star has released seven studio albums since 2013, Grande got her start on Broadway in the musical “13” when she was a teenager — and said Wednesday that the song-oriented theatrical calling is still her true “heart.”

However, Grande assured her devoted fans that she will never completely turn her back on music: “Art is also what fuels me – in whatever capacity. I will always be doing and creating six different things at the same time. I don’t see that going anywhere. I just see it changing.”