“I was like, ‘this cannot happen’. There’s a time and a place and it’s not with Glinda; she doesn’t have that kind of rhythm”: Ariana Grande tells Billie Eilish why she said no to the idea of having “trap drums” in one of her showstopping songs in Wicked

Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande.

Given her contemporary pop star status, you might have thought that Ariana Grande would have been keen to modernise some of the musical arrangements for her songs in the screen version of Wicked, but not a bit of it.

In a recent Q&A that took place after a showing of the movie - and was moderated by none other than Billie Eilish - Grande confessed that she’s “somewhat of a purist when it comes to making musical changes,” and that, being such a fan of the world that author L Frank Baum created, she considered herself to be “the nerdy Oz historian that worked on the movie - like the gatekeeping fangirl in the room.”