A large white pearl, her birthstone, glimmers on her finger. Grande is wearing black leggings and an oversize sweatshirt emblazoned with the words SOCIAL HOUSE, the name of a pop duo from Pittsburgh who are friends and now one of her opening acts. It’s fun, it’s pop music, and I’m not trying to make it sound like anything that it’s not, but these songs to me really do represent some heavy shit.”Īlthough she has a home of her own in Beverly Hills, the kind of vast, marble-paved manse that young stars buy before they’re ready for them, Tommy’s is where she likes spending time when she’s in Los Angeles. “Of course because I’m an extremist, I’m like, OK, I’ll go on tour! But it’s hard to sing songs that are about wounds that are so fresh. The boots, by the way, are Sergio Rossi, though we have to dig into the insole to determine this Grande knows about music, she says, and not about clothes. “I was researching healing and PTSD and talking to therapists, and everyone was like, ‘You need a routine, a schedule,’ ” Grande says, yanking off a pair of black, ultra-high platform ankle boots so that she can crisscross her legs on the sofa and sit close. Thank U, Next, the album she wrote and recorded in a two-week fever dream the previous October, contained the most wrenchingly personal songs in her canon, and she was about to embark on a tour of at least 40 cities, where night after night she had to sing her way through a succession of private horrors. (Grande responded to the news of her pop preeminence in trademark terse, unpunctuated Twitterese: “wait what”.) But the singer, whose fame does not so much polarize as it sorts-into those who adore her, ape her high ponytail, and have made her the second-most-followed person on Instagram, behind the Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, and those for whom she barely registers (yet)-was in quiet knots. So extreme a choke hold of the Billboard charts had only one antecedent: the Beatles achieved it in 1964, when “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Twist and Shout,” and “Do You Want to Know a Secret” blanketed the airwaves. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR, Ariana Grande had the number-one, number-two, and number-three songs in America. Times staff writers Hannah Fry and Richard Winton contributed to this article. The case against Pettit, who has pleaded not guilty, is pending, according to the Justice Department. He has agreed to be sentenced to 17 years. Last month, Stephen Walter, 48, pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl, federal prosecutors said. Reavis is the second person to plead guilty in connection with the death of Miller, whose real name was Malcolm McCormick. In the exchange, he said he was going to move to another country and get off the grid. “Most likely I will die in jail,” Pettit wrote, according to court documents. But am I a drug addict? No.”Īfter news of Miller’s death, Pettit anxiously messaged a friend on Instagram, prosecutors said. “If a bunch of people think I am a huge drug addict, OK. He also pushed back against concerns over his drug use. And that’s great too,” he told the magazine. In an interview published in August in Rolling Stone, Miller said that his breakup with Grande was difficult but that he was moving on with a new album. Miller’s struggles had played out in the tabloids, particularly his relationship with Grande. The rapper and two passengers fled the scene in the San Fernando Valley, but he was later arrested and charged with driving under the influence. Shortly after his public split with singer Ariana Grande in May 2018, Miller crashed his Mercedes-Benz G-Class SUV into a pole. Miller's music also delved into his struggle with depression and drug abuse. Miller was posthumously nominated for a Grammy for his last album "Swimming." His music began to incorporate R&B, jazz and funk, with his rapping showing promise for a talent that was just coming into his own.
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Miller was best known for his hits “Donald Trump,” “Self Care” and “Programs.” He first garnered attention at the age of 15 in Pittsburgh with a series of mix-tapes and signed his first record deal in 2010. "He is very remorseful for his actions and the tragic loss of life." is taking responsibility for his role in this incident," in which he acted as a runner, his attorney, Cori Ferrentino, said. Miller "would not have died from an overdose but for the fentanyl contained in the pills" that he received from Pettit and that Pettit had received from Reavis, according to the plea agreement. He distributed the pills to Cameron Pettit, 30, of West Hollywood, who then sold the pills to Miller, court records show. Reavis, who previously lived in West Los Angeles and moved to Lake Havasu, Ariz., admitted he knew the pills contained the powerful opioid fentanyl or some other controlled substance, according to his plea agreement.