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Ariana Grande: 'I don't have to pretend to be somebody else anymore'

'Problem' songstress Ariana Grande has opened up about being a prominent name in the music industry and explained that she's glad to have broken away from her Nickelodeon image because her character wasn't really like who she is in real life. 

Speaking to Marie Claire magazine about no longer being on the Nickelodeon show 'Sam and Cat', Grande confessed that when she launched her music career professionally she wanted there to be "a really distinct difference between me and my character":

"And we did that with 'The Way,' I dyed my hair back to brown. I made out with a rapper in the video. I made the point I wanted to make. And I was excited to do so after so many years of pretending to be somebody else in front of a lot of people."

The beauty also added that she "was 14 years old and ready to make an R&B album," but had to wait until she was older because the lyrical content of what she was writing was far too mature: "I wrote this song called 'Higher,' and the lyrics were too sexual, too mature. And my mom was like, 'This is a great song, but damn, you're too young for this.'"

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Watch her music video for 'Bang Bang' below: