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25th August 2018
10:00am BST

"I don't know, I feel like I'd eventually just like to be 'Ariana'. Isn't that sick? I feel like it's got a ring to it."https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=126&v=XAb_Z7ZbkIU But she soon backtracked on that idea, admitting she probably would keep 'Grande' because of her beloved late grandpa. She added:
"Also Grande... I have to keep Grande, because my grandpa, I think of him with everything I do, and he was so proud of our name. "I should keep it. I'mma keep it. Never mind. We'll talk later. I have a lot of decisions to make."The sweetner singer admitted it will be awhile until she made any kind of decision like that, as she was going to be finishing up a tour and "making her fans a priority" before making any wedding or personal decisions.
But, as it turns out, there was something else that fans were noticing: the way she pronounced her surname.
We had been pronouncing Grande as Grahn-day or Grahn-deh - but the 25-year-old says it a different way - as Gran-dee - after the way her grandad did.
She explained:
"My grandpa said Gran-dee. ... Gran-dee was kind of the, I guess, Americanized version of it, you know? "Made it more chill... And then my brother was like, 'We should say Grahn-day. It's so fun to say it. It's funny. It's a funny name'. "I grew up saying Gran-dee and I think of my grandpa, and I wish I said Gran-dee more."It's not totally clear who changed the sound of her last name back to the Italian version when it came time for her professional career - whether it was her brother's suggestion sticking or simply the rest of the world slowly changing it back. Either way, though, we're still baffled.
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