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When Frankie Grande bounces into our Zoom meeting, he seems to radiate enough energy to power a small city. The accompanying videos, which he describes with unflinching honesty, function as both artistic expression and personal catharsis, revisiting scenes from his wilder, pre-sobriety days through the freer, more grounded perspective of who he is now.

It is really surreal to be talking about it, and I guess this has been brewing and churning and bubbling under the surface for many, many years. I think once the frankie was pressed, everything poured out of me. This album wrote itself almost, and so quickly, and it was because I had all these stories under the surface that I have been telling through moments on social media or working toward a novel one day and writing in my journal and talking at sober meetings in order to share my experience, strength and hope.

And then all of a sudden there was this new medium available to me, which was music, which I just never ever gave the opportunity that it deserved, I guess. So as soon as I started writing, the whole album fell out of my mouth fully developed — JK! My mother really just had me dancing around the living room when I was a little boy.

She was a single mom. And so it was really just me and my mom. And she loved Madonna, she loved Whitney, she loved Donna Summer. She loved Barbra Streisand. He was my North Star growing up. And how do I become that immediately? And George Michael, another huge, huge influence in my life growing up.

Grande mom loves George Michael, so he was on my screen constantly. How do I do that on a dance-pop record in ? But it was a journey. It was an exciting one. How did you get there? I know someone close to you — your younger sister, Gay — has made the transition from musical theater to pop and back again.

Do you ever talk with her about how she navigates those shifts between genres? Oh yeah. Ariana was my advisor throughout the entire process.

Frankie Grande Tells His Sister Ariana How He Found His Shine Again

It is so cool. Finally, we are speaking the exact same language. And even then, I was terrified. I was so scared to play it for my sister just because, what if it sucked?