- (children) Kids React to pop stars!
This episode: Ariana Grande!
♪ (synthesized crescendo) ♪
- I know her name. Ariana Grande.
- It's Ariana Grande!
- (gasps deeply) OH MY GOSH! - ♪ Baby, I got love for thee ♪
- Is this the girl from Sam & Cat?
- ♪ ...where to start (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah (Yeah, yeah, yeah) ♪ - I don't like this.
- ♪ I love you more than anything ♪
- That's kind of dangerous. - ♪ But the words ♪
♪ Can't even touch what's in my heart ♪
♪ (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) ♪
♪ No, no (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) ♪
♪ When I try ♪
- No. - ♪ To explain it ♪
♪ I be sounding insane ♪ - She's hot.
- She is so beautiful. - ♪ The words don't ♪
♪ Ever come out right ♪
- It looks like a video from the '80s.
- Her hair's not really red.
She looks different. (snickers) - ♪ Baby ♪
♪ Baby I ♪
♪ Oh, baby, oh, baby ♪
♪ My baby (Baby I) ♪
♪ Oh, baby, baby I ♪
- I mean, this video would be completely terrible
if she wasn't in it.
- I love her.
So fashionable. - ♪ Baby I ♪
♪ Oh, baby, oh ♪
- This doesn't make any sense to me.
- That's a big, big microphone.
- ♪ (harmonizes) ♪ - Her voice always goes so high.
- She sounded like she was screaming.
- ♪ Words, they only complicate it ♪
♪ Baby, baby (Oh, whoa, oh, whoa) ♪
♪ Baby, baby ♪
- She's just saying the same thing over and over again.
(Ariana giggles) - (high-pitched) Ba-ha-ha-ha!
- Now it's "The Way," I just guarantee it.
♪ (mellow R&B music) ♪
- (Mac Miller) ♪ What we gotta do right here is go back ♪
♪ (Ariana harmonizes) ♪ - Oh, I like this song.
- (Ariana) ♪ I love ♪
- (singing along) ♪ The way you make me feel ♪
- ♪ I love it, I love it ♪ - Balloons.
- (Mac) ♪ Say, I'm thinking ♪ - Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Mac Miller and Ariana Grande?
I honestly thought that it was a black girl singing that part.
- (Ariana) ♪ ...that kind of something ♪
♪ Want it all the time, need it every day ♪
♪ On a scale of one to ten ♪ - Okay, I like this song.
But still, can anybody turn it off?
- ♪ If you want it, I got it, I got it every day ♪
♪ You can get whatever you need from me ♪
♪ I got a bad boy, I must admit it (Hey) ♪
♪ You got my heart, don't know how you did it (Hey) ♪
♪ And I don't care who sees it, babe ♪
♪ I don't wanna hide the way I feel when you're next to me ♪
♪ (Hey) ♪
- (singing along) ♪ I love the way ♪
- ♪ I love the way, the way I love you ♪
- (Mac) ♪ I make you feel so fine, make you feel so fine ♪
♪ I hope you hit me on my celly ♪
♪ When I sneak in your mind ♪ - He's kind of gross.
- ♪ I'm not gonna get bored of ♪ - That's an ugly sweater.
- Hideous sweatshirt. - ♪ So let me come ♪
♪ And explore you ♪ - Whoa, that's a lot of balloons.
- (Ariana) ♪ I got a bad boy, I must admit it (Hey) ♪
♪ You got my heart, don't know how you did it (Hey) ♪
♪ I love the way ♪ - She always does that high melody thing.
- ♪ Baby, I love the way ♪ (Emma singing along)
♪ I love the way, the way I love you ♪
- So cool. So cool.
- Why would he be with Ariana Grande?
Why is he all next to her, like...
I'm pretty sure everyone else there is saying the same thing.
- (children) Question time!
- (Finebros) So do you know who that singer was?
- No, it's a butt girl.
- No.
- That was Ariana Grande.
- (both) Ariana Grande.
- Ariana Grande!
- I don't know who she actually is, but I do know she's Cat.
- (Finebros) Do you like those songs? - Meh.
- She sings in a really, really girly way.
I like boy songs.
- I'm okay with the music.
I just don't like the stomach shake.
- She sung the songs beautifully.
It's almost like she's a butterfly singing.
- They sound sort of a tiny bit different
from the regular pop music these days.
Like, it has more R&B in it.
- She's a really good singer, like, amazing singer.
She can dance and she can act.
And she has the coolest fashion sense.
I follow her on Instagram, and she's like the bomb dot com.
- (Finebros) What do you think about her singing
with high-pitched noises that weren't even words?
- Uh, okay, now it kinda ruins the song. Thanks a lot.
- I think it's cool.
- I think it's cool. I can't do that.
- I think it's really weird.
- Sort of gets a tiny bit old
when you're doing it every single song on your album.
- It's like her signature thing.
- In all of her shows, she talks super high-pitched.
I think that kinda plays with that.
- There was an era where this guy was making noises like that.
Michael Jackson!
(ding!)
- (Finebros) Can you try to sing that high-pitched right now?
- (clears throat) All right, hold on. Let me put on her voice.
(high-pitched screech)
- (harmonizes throatily)
- (quavering vocalization)
- (bizarre vocal sounds)
- ♪ Do re mi fa so la ti hee! ♪
- (Finebros) A lot of people say
that she sounds a lot like Mariah Carey. Do you agree?
- Who's Mariah Carey?
- I don't know who that is.
- I don't know who that girl is.
- She sounds a lot like Mariah Carey, except she's ages younger.
Heh.
- (Finebros) And why do you know Ariana Grande?
- Victorious.
-Victorious.
- Victorious.
- The show Sam & Cat.
- Sam & Cat.
- Those shows are stupid.
They make Ariana Grande so dumb. Oh my god.
- (Finebros) Is it okay for a character on a show for kids
to be dumb? - No.
- Probably not the best thing to show dumb people to kids,
'cause then they can make fun of dumb people.
- On kids' TV shows,
the people who make it just want it to be funny.
- Look at SpongeBob and Patrick. Patrick is retarded!
- I don't think it's as complicated
as you're making it out to be.
- Well, it does teach one lesson: not to do that.
- (Finebros) When you see her singing and dancing in the videos,
what type of girl does she seem to be? - A partying girl.
- Flirty.
- Talks about guys.
- Obsessed with herself.
- A happy little kid in a candy store.
- I wouldn't say immature, but not yet mature.
- Fun.
- Like fun and bubbly.
- She parties and she's dancing
in her stiletto heels and her sunflower dress.
- (Finebros) Would you say that her music and videos
are appropriate for children? - I guess.
- Yeah!
- The dance is not appropriate.
- The music videos, I don't know.
Some parents might think it's weird
'cause of the outfits that she wears.
- Just the second one, there's only balloons.
So that's definitely appropriate!
Everybody gets balloons at least once in their life.
- (Finebros) A lot of people, though, say that they are happy
with what Ariana Grande has decided to do with her music
as she's become an adult
more so than what Miley Cyrus has chosen to do.
- Oh no. (breathes deeply)
I've seen pictures on magazines. I can't even talk about that.
- (gags)
- I don't even want to get started on her.
I will just start bagging on her.
From the sweet little girl to this maniac.
- (Finebros) Why do you think they think Ariana
is more appropriate than Miley Cyrus?
- Well, because Miley Cyrus, she's keeping a secret.
- (Finebros) She is? - Yeah, that she's Hannah Montana.
- She's definitely doing a lot better than Miley Cyrus is.
- Most of us have seen the VMAs. That was quite a performance...
- That was interesting. - ...that I regret watching.
- In one of her music videos, "Wrecking Ball,"
that was disgusting and...
- (Finebros) Did you see that? - Yeah. (giggles)
- (Finebros) You shouldn't have watched that, Jayka.
- 'Cause Ariana Grande-- A, her music isn't super inappropriate,
doesn't have drug use in it.
Um, and her music videos aren't her naked on a wrecking ball.
So it's fine. - (Finebros) Why do you know about that?
- It was-- okay, if you have an Instagram,
it's almost impossible not to not know about that.
- (Finebros) Do you think Ariana might have the same problems
as Miley one day?
- Oh, I hope not. - I hope not.
- I'm praying and hoping that doesn't happen.
'Cause if that happens, I lost all respect for any celebrity.
It's ridiculous. It's happened so many times already.
- Just like Justin Bieber, everyone's like,
"Oh my gosh, Justin Bieber is the best role model ever."
And then he starts doing crazy stuff.
- I don't think she's gonna end up
going through a phase like that.
- Not as long as she sticks to what she's doing right now.
- She has a good head on her shoulders. She was raised very well.
And I think that her parents aren't gonna let her do that.
- (Finebros) Do you think three or four years ago,
you would've said the same thing about Miley Cyrus though?
- That's true.
- (Finebros) And finally, if Ariana ever ended up watching this,
what would you want to say to her? - Thanks for watching!!!
- No, I wouldn't say anything, because I don't want to upset her.
- Hi. Please don't turn into Miley Cyrus.
- I love your music. Keep doing what you're doing.
- You are gorgeous. That's all I want to say. You are beautiful.
- I really want to say hi to her,
and I really want to meet her for real life.
She should babysit me.
- Ariana Grande, I love you to death.
You are, like, the most coolest person ever.
I totally want to meet you, like-- (squeals)
You're just so cool!
- I love you, baby. (kisses air)
(Finebros snickering) That was so creepy.
- (both) Thanks for watching!
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- (softly) ♪ Goodbye ♪
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