Ariana Grande is a beautiful doll. A doll with ten pounds of extensions, weaves and wigs. A doll that will only consent to being photographed on its left side. A doll with a decent voice. A doll that sings off-key a little bit live. Still, Ariana is a thing a now and she’s skyrocketed to fame relatively quickly (within a year, basically). Ariana is still promoting her new album and all of her singles (which are all charting). Time Magazine sat down with Ariana to talk about the album, emojis, club dancing and more. Some highlights:
Her dance moves in the club: “It’s hard to describe it. There’s a lot of strutting to the beat. There’s a lot of sitting down and leg-kicking and voguing and posing and hair flipping involved.”
The emoji that reflects her the most: “There’s a brunette, severed head with the driest expression of all time on her face, and I really like that one. I feel like I relate to it. After that, I put the thinking bubble emoji followed by the boy emoji so it’s girl-thinking-of-boy. I really like that combination. There’s a navy blue square with stars in it, and it’s supposed to look like the universe. I really like that one as well.”
Whether she orders the ‘grande’ size at Starbucks: “No, sometimes I get that venti, you know? Some days that’s what you need in your life. I love soy lattes. Obviously I don’t have dairy because I’m a vegan, but they taste out of this world to me.”
Remembering the ‘90s (she was born in ’93): “No, I remember so much. That was such a vivid time. I was obsessed with Missy Elliott, TLC and Eminem. Everything was so great. Nickelodeon had the best shows and the toys were dope and at P.E. time we had all the right things. I was a ‘90s kid, but I was alive, I remember things. Cartoons were great, music was great, the trends were mortifying.”
She absolutely curses: “I absolutely do. I’m Italian! I wish I could less. But I don’t know why people are so shocked by me. I guess it’s because of the character I played so long being such a goody two-shoes. But I also think that people have a misrepresentation of me as a person because I’m friendly and I like to meet people and I like to talk to people and make people laugh. Sometimes people can confuse my niceness for weakness in a way — or ditziness or stupidity. But it doesn’t go hand-in-hand in that way, you know what I mean?… When people are shocked when they see me curse, I wish they knew my sense of humor. I have the sense of humor of a 14-year-old boy. It’s very crude. When I was 7 years old, my mom took me to see Rocky Horror. That’s just how my family is. We’re just this Italian family that loves slightly raunchy humor. Everyone sees Frankie on Big Brother, they get the idea.”
Her description of her club dancing is… probably very accurate. And funny. One of things I noticed about her VMA performance – beyond the LEFT SIDE problem – was that she’s not actually a dancer. That’s why there are so many fast edits in all of her videos. Chica has no rhythm, no dance skills. Which is fine, not every pop star has to be a killer dancer, but she shouldn’t make videos where she has to pretend to dance. And she definitely shouldn’t do performances where she tries to dance.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
she’s a joke
BARF! I was born in ’90 and I honestly don’t remember much besides a few staples like full house and so forth. Way to try hard ariana
Same here, Steph!
we had 10 years of that, and I mean, you only remember so much. I remember I wore a lot of overalls and brightly colored leggings, and had scrunchies, and barrettes, and watched a lot of corny family shows… but not much beyond that. Now that I’m older, I’ll listen to a lot of 90’s alternative stuff, but it wasn’t something I was listening to from 0-10.
Disagree! I was born in 1990 and I remember loads! I had older siblings who were teenagers then which helped. Gimme some La Bouche tunes any day of the week bitches!
LA BOUCHE!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m with u Lex.
Not everyones experiences are the same. Just because YOU don’t have vivid memories of a particular period of time doesn’t mean that other peoples memory recall is just like yours.
Every time I see her, I hear, “To the left, to the left”.
I grew into my womanhood in the nineties, so It’s a real pisser to hear someone remiss about the good ol nineties. In my mind I still feel like it should be 1994.
Me too. I miss the early 1990’s. It was a great time in my life.
How can someone born in 1993 have great memories of the 90’s?
fiik. I was born in 91 and i dnt remember sh%t.
Same here.
Yes, the 90s were high school and college for me, so it is a bit odd to hear someone talk about remembering the 90s like it is such an unusual feat of memory.
Yeah, it was so long ago.
I still think the 90’s were 10 years ago. **sigh** 😀
Me too ☺️
HAHA me too. 90s were my favourite time ever.
OMG ME TOO! I’m like, 1997? That was a couple of years ago, right? No. No, it wasn’t. I was born in ’83 and have some memories of the 80s, but I know the 90s like the back of my hand, way better than this bitch. To me, you’re not a 90s kid unless you obsessed over 90210, wanted to marry Zack Morris, and suffered scarring from those snap bracelets. Step aside, ponytail.
☝THIS.
I had the most amazing Barbie doll as a kid where if you moved her arm, her ponytail would grow. I don’t know why I’ve suddenly been reminded of that… 😉
I’m jealous because my first Barbie didn’t even bend her legs, so she had to ride in her convertible standing up. It looked really stupid.
That actually sounds kind of rad. Like she was Crocodile Dundee Barbie.
@ G.N.A.T – If it makes you feel any better, I’m jealous you had the convertible! I never got any of the accessories 😢 #firstworldproblems
No Kali, your Barbie was hella progressive, she was environmentally conscious waaaay ahead of her time and walked to work. Shit. Did Barbie work back then? Whatever, she walked to the grocery store and stuff.
No matter what she did, my brothers always took her head off. Why do little boys do that? I’d leave her alone, standing in her convertible, minding her own business, then return in five minutes to find her head lying 10 feet away. So annoying.
I liked to do something similar and change up the doll heads from the few I had. Made life interesting (not to mention terrifying my mother which was always a bonus).
@GoodNames….
I’ll do you one better–my TWENTY year old cousin, who lived with us, used to rip the heads off my barbie dolls. You’d think that it’d be my twin brother who’d do that (but, I DID have him punk’d, so that might be why), but oh, no. It was my supposedly grown up, all man cousin who did crap like that.
Wow, V.C. , that’s pretty weird.
I had a Barbie that “grew” hair too! It was awesome…until my cousin decided to try to curl it with a curling iron.
On a side note…does she ever wear real shoes or just those plastic boots?? Does she have knees? I feel like she gets all her clothes/shoes at a cheap costume shop.
Awesome, so then she was punk rock Barbie with melted hair and plastic booties.
I remember the hair one.
My friend had a Skipper doll that if you spun her arm around, she grew boobs. I can’t imagine that’s being sold today too.
growing up skipper! I remember that!
I always wanted that one. For the longest time I wanted a Ken doll but we were poor growing up so my Mom had to save up for it. In the meantime she bought me a booklet of ‘paper barbies’ with a Ken cutout so I could still pretend I had one. Then my Ken doll came and those went in the trash. It’s kind of sad and sweet at the same time, that my Mom cared so much about my selfish little girl wants that she got me paper barbies while saving up for a few months to get me the real thing. I love that woman to death.
When I was older my godmother got me an Ariel doll and that was the shit. I was obsessed with Ariel!
I had the convertible too and the little cardboard “closet”. I’d tie the closet to the convertible and pretend Barbie was leaving Ken and moving away on her own, and she’d drive off dragging her closet.
I was a weird little girl.
Prettylights that’s the funniest/sweetest story I’ve heard in a long while. Give your mum a hug on behalf of me!
There’s a whiff of Katy Perry about her. Lots of words yet not saying much (of interest). And no moves.
Um I have no clue to who she is but she needs to wash her face and take the fake hair out and put some clothes on. 🙁 she looks like a toddler playing dress up.
Please. She was practically a fetus. She was 5 when the Spice Girls were popular in 1997!
Ha. This exactly. But it was so vivid.
Not as vivid as that shade of lipstick.
OH yeah I remember Spice Girls – who could forget them? That was my first time going to a concert by myself – well with a couple of friends. But it was right after Ginger left, I was sooooo sad :'( Anyway yeah what would she have remembered about Spice Girls? Would she have seen the movie? Nope, nawl. She’s counterfeit.
My BFFs and I used to have sleepovers and dress up like Spice Girls in middle school – when they were super hot. That was…lemme think… 1996-1997? So she was 4 when the Spice Girls/Eminem/Missy ruled the world?
Psh. She should see my super hot and awkward pre-teen Spice Girl dress up photos. They are quite vivid.
I don’t know. I was born in 1970 and I have pretty vivid memories of a LOT of that decade.
I’m impressed that she can remember things from in utero.
On another note, she’s the only other person I’ve ever heard of that saw Rocky Horror Picture Show at the age of 7. Main difference being, of course, that I saw it when it originally came out in theaters.
Nope. If you were born in ’93, you cannot possibly remember all of that. You might appreciate it now, or even ten years ago, but nah. I’ll always remember Chloe Moretz talking about how awesome being a 90’s kid was and then it was brought up she was born in ’98.
The toys were dope in the 90s. Yeah, I was just about to comment on how dope the toys were then. It was all so vivid. Zzzzzzzz….
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were the dopest–*snores*
This girls annoys me so much. Like, I want to tear my hair out when I even see a picture of her. She’s on my list of Reasons Why I Smoke Dope.
Dope in the 90s was so dope said the dope.
I only remember as far as ’96, the rest is kind of a lovely smokey haze.
She really annoys me, too. Way, way too perky. And I want to sneak up on her and take a picture of the right side of her face just to make her cry. There’s something seriously wrong with me.
You’re so devious, GNAT!
Omg White Widow is everything and to this day my fave strain. And I don’t even like the shit.
Just saw her album cover on iTunes and it is a RIGHT SIDE shot!
maybe they flipped the photo?
I was born in ’93 and I do remember some things from the 90s, but I was too young to really appreciate all that stuff.
Do people really use all those weird emojis? I mean, I only use 3 smiley faces and that’s pretty much it.
Why does every new starlet claim to have the sense of humour of a 14y old boy and why would that be a good thing? Things like toilet humour iare not offensive, but are rarely funny.
I was born in 1922 and I use emojis all the time. 💩
*oh and there’s an emoji update forthcoming; you’ve all been warned. 🙋
1922? O.o
I know, I’m hella old. But I’m still vivid. 😉
I didn’t know you could use emojis here! 😺
Well, in that case, my favourite is this: 💃
Love the teensy “heil!”
OMG, mimif, seriously? I have neighbors that are only a year younger than you, and seem WAY older (in terms of electronics). Like I remember I asked Mr.C about whether or not he had a computer, and he said yes, and then he grabbed one of those HUGE hand held calculators from the nineties…haha.
I thought maybe there had been a mistake with the year. That’s so great! My mom just turned 84 and I can’t even imagine her being on this site. I’m still trying to get her to learn how to use her DVR.
Um..I think she was joking about being 92 years old. lol
Why do you people believe anything this rabble-rouser says?
I wish I was on my phone so I could put the poo emoji right here ——–>
I keep coming back here to see if mimif is going to clear up the confusion for these nice folks.
Guys, really, what 92-year-old talks about smoking pot, a closet full of rose, giant balls, and blowjobs?
If mimif is 92, then I’m 117.
@Orig. Kitten
The AWESOME 92 year olds (whether mimif is joking or not)….I have a seventy year old aunt who travels with her beer in her trunk. When she wants one, she throws me her keys and has me get it out for her. And I swear to you–she hasn’t shaved her mustache in 20 years, at least…
There should be a *disclaimer* for every.single.post I make that it is highly probable I am joking. I am not 92, not even close. I do, however, have the maturity level of a 15 year old boy, hence my love of balls and weed.
Kitten really is 117, however. She collects cats and only hangs out braless in muumuus she buys out of the back of some dude’s car.
ETA: Virgilia, I totally need to hang out with your aunt, we could be twinsies (minus the stache).
…and to think I was going to send you one of my muumuus and a bonus cat.
I even picked out a special pink floral number from my prized collection–it has two XL pockets on the front–one for your stash of herb and one for your remote.
But no more.
You’ve hurt my feelings for the last time, mimif.
Mimif, I’m coming for you, you old bat. As soon as i get out of the CDC’s Cisco Adler Exposure Ward, I’m hunting your 92 yr.old ass down. *throwing jordan nuts at mimif in honor of Brange*. BTW, Jordan Nutzz would be a great name for a porn star. We could set him up with Ariana and her emojis.
Jordan Nutzz is a fabulous name for anybody! I’m totally going to get a Scottish Fold & name him that. How many times did you look at the pic, btw? Were you licking the computer screen before you got 5150’d?
@Kitten, you’re not fooling me, I know you don’t have any feelings.
*throws BBQ sauce at Kitten*
Fetus Pleeeaassee!
Crying!!!!
But seriously… If she was born on 93.. She’s like 21 now!!! Wth she does look like a fetus
But it was all so vivid!
I just barely remember yesterday and for her the 90’s were “vivid”. Good for her.
Christ, she’s dumb. I feel mean saying it, but she sounds like there’s a hamster wheel in her head with no hamster. However, while her singing isn’t spectacular, she is still talented. She just shouldn’t be interviewed.
Huh??? I really don’t understand people who say that her singing isn’t that good. Compared to who, Whitney and Mariah? I feel like her talent works against her to where she’s compared to really phenomenal pop singers and is somehow seen as coming up short. A perverse complement if anything.
She’s a professional singer who is being sold as the next Mariah Carey. She has a nice voice but she’s no Mariah, who may be a ridiculous diva but who’s voice is transcendent. And Grande’s voice simply isn’t good enough to make up for the fact that the songs themselves are pretty mediocre.
she sound like there’s a hamster wheel in her head with no hamster
I’m ugly laughing right now.
Oh, there’s a hamster in there, all right – it’s just dead. 🙂
I so agree. Everytime I read her interviews I think she’s really not that different from her annoying character Cat (Nickolodeon’s Sam & Cat). Yes I have a 12 year old daughter. I cringe everytime Grande is on the radio and have to walk out the room when she’s on tv. She’s so try hard it’s embarrassing for her.
Who lets a child under 10 listen to Eminem?
FIIK!!
In my case, parents who don’t understand English. But as a kid neither did I so it was really no harm done.
Ahaha, I had a burnt eminem cd when i was 13 and my dad took it thinking it was one of his burnt cds — it was promptly garbaged.
I was born in 1990. I completely relate to what she’s saying. It’s a strange phenomenon, but our entire generation has this shared bond over our love of that time. I’m sure there are a few who don’t feel this way but I can’t say I know them. But I guess no one who isn’t a Part of our generation can completely understand….There truly was something so bright and beautiful about being a kid at that time. It was great.
Well, technically I am your generation then but I was a teenager in the nineties. So I can tell you, it’s the same with the eighties because if your childhood is great, it’s great no matter what decade. That decade will always be special and yes, everyone understands what you’re all saying. Because it’s not a unique experience tied to the nineties. My mom was born in the late forties (in Germany no less) and reminisces about her childhood the same way.
But everyone under 25 always thinks all their experiences were more special than anyone else’s. I did as well. It’ll pass.
ETA: Alright, that could come off more patronizing than I thought. I just mean that we DO understand.
Lol I do not think my experiences are more important than anyone else’s, I’m just saying that our memories are not less valuable because they are from our childhoods. Anyone’s childhood era will be especially vivid to them of they had a good one.
Okay but you did say this: But I guess no one who isn’t a Part of our generation can completely understand.
I was just saying we CAN. Everyone can. Your childhood decade is special to you.
It’s the same as any generation. Everyone has ties to their own childhood decade. However, as a fellow 1990 kid, I can’t say it’s any more vivid than anyone else’s childhood.
Yeah sorry to burst your bubble, Mhmmm, but every generation has a “tie” to the time period during which they grew up. It’s pretty natural, no?
I’m an ’80s girl but being born in ’78, I still romanticize the ’70s like nobody’s business. I’m gonna sound an old fart here but innocence was officially lost in 1991 when the world wide web was created.
I’m sure you guys loved growing up in the 90s but I wish everyone could know what it was like when we didn’t have the internet to tell us everything.
That being said, I would be officially lost without the internet to tell me everything, so there’s that.
I did not say or mean that. I meant the people saying she didnt truly “live” in the 90s don’t understand.
I did not mean to say that it was. I should have replies it to one of those saying she didnt really “live” through the 90s because that’s who it was directed to.
There’s something about this girl that makes me really, really want to slap her. I don’t know what it is. It’s just from pictures, because I’ve never really seen her in anything. I’ve never seen an interview or that TV show she did. I’ve maybe caught her videos a couple of times when I’m flicking through channels. But, just from looking at her stupid little face, I want to slap her. And I don’t understand why. Usually when I hate a celebrity, I feel like I have a good reason to. Hating somebody’s ponytail should not elicit such a violent response in me.
It does me, too. I already admitted up thread to wanting to make her cry. I’m a really nice person, too, usually. But something about her just makes me stabby. Do you want to form a club? We could take turns imagining scenarios where we, for example, take her favorite dope toy from the 90s and hurl it off the Empire State Building. Or I could go back on my meds. Whichever.
I wanna be in the club.
Let me in the club.
Initiation entails burning her dope ’90s toys in a massive bonfire.
Who’s in?
Ooh, you can be President! Massive bonfire with dope toys and saucy ponytails aflame. To the sky! Burn it down!
Oh, um, sorry. Maybe I shouldn’t have put that tequila in my fifth cup of coffee.
Count me in. I have a high level irrational dislike for this child. I swear, I see her face and think, she’s not going to age well, why do people think she’s pretty? She looks like a stunned mouse. I’ll volunteer to shoot Sky Dancers at her. Snap her fingers with Polly Pocket compacts. Make her walk barefoot on a bed of Polly Pocket dolls. TONIGHT, WE DINE IN HELL, ARIANNA. WITH F#CKING BARNEY SINGING THE FULL HOUSE THEME NON STOP.
Thank you for your consideration 🙂
Wow, JustChristy, you’re so in. I salute you!
I know very little about her, but she bugs the crap out of me too. I have no idea why.
It might be because I always think she’s about 13 and want to excuse her annoyingness, but then remember she’s in her 20s.
She makes me think of this quote from Harriet the Spy:
“Beth Ellen Hansen always looks like she’s about to cry. I wish someone would just kick her and get it over with.”
Hahahahaha! What is wrong with me?
Will this help give you a reason? http://primalscreaming.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/meeting-ariana-grande-then-and-now/
Jab, that was a pretty intense and very, very interesting read. It also made my heart soar a little reading about Britney’s kindness to her fans. It a an upper after reading that horrid and plastic encounter poor Jen and Kelly had with Ariana.
So what. I am italian and i don’t swear all the time. Nor the people i know.
She might be young and cute but she dresses like the ’90 are today.
I am now so officially old that I don’t bother even learning the name of the current little pop hottie. When you’ve seen ten or fifteen of them come and go, it doesn’t seem worth the effort.
Same here. It’s like the old marketing saying…there needs to be seven articles about them on celebitchy before I remember that they exist…
Pretty offensive to people who actually lived in the 90s. Bitch, please.
Ariana Grande is yet another Disney kid time-bomb.
I remember the 90s with great love- Hole, Crunt, Babes in Toyland, early Nirvana, Mudhoney, Bikini Kill, Tad, Soundgarden, Bratmobile….. those were the days…..
I was born in ’93 and I remember nothing except the fashion was a horror show. Give me the early 2000’s any day. At least that had Spongebob.
This girl annoys me. I never understand what she’s singing. Her voice is okay, but everything else is a no.
I think she is so gorgeous and pretty talented compared to the other losers in the pop world. She is a little self centered but I guess that is just her generation.
I was born in the 80’s and I can barely rep that I know crap about the 90’s. Yea I had docs and flannels and watched Pedro on the real world and the barbie spin on the BBQ in the sound garden video but….I still can’t front like I was a grunge 90’s kid.
It’s not her generation. We’re not all self-centered. Most of us aren’t actually.
I had a child at 19 in 1990 and we argue to this day about this very subject. I tell him 90’s are mine and he thinks that the 90’s are his time. Clueless.
I can believe she remembers the 90s well (or at least the late 90s) even if she’s only 21.
People seem to have more vivid memories of their childhood.
I think the equivalent would be a 90s teenager saying they remember the 80s well. I’m not sure how much of television has to do with this though. A lot of memory seems to be tied to tv.
I’m 22 and I remember the 90’s really vividly. Or rather, I remember the TV shows, the trends, the news etc. School, family, holidays, all that’s kind of a blur with only the big moments or the embarrassing moments standing out.
I think some people just really take in and absorb pop culture and trends.
She was born in 93. She speaks about Eminem. He put out his first single in 99 I believe. So at 6 years old, she was listening to Eminem?
Also, a serious question…if you look at pics of Ariana just a few years ago, she looked so different. I know she lost weight, but seriously her nose, chin…I don’t know, does anyone else see it?
So, what the f*ck is she? She looks like a cake topper from the Bratz Collection at Party City, but on the inside she is emo& full of dark thoughts and irony? Nope, I ain’t buying what you are selling , Lefty.
Heh heh heh, good one. 🙂
Emmy Rossum’s baby sister. Am I the only one who sees that?
She’s another “Yes others think I’m cute, but let you tell why I’m the complete opposite of how I act”… Also, why are her eyebrows grey?
Her dancing involves “sitting down” — LOL forever.
I don’t know who this little girl is and I’m okay with that. Kaiser, may I request more stories about Dita Von Teese? And fewer about Leann Rimes? Please?
HA! exactly! I’m so sick and tired of looking at this fragrant fetus…I didn’t know who she was until the internet became utterly overwhelmed by her presence the internet is trying to make her an item!! anyhow, that style of “music” is generic, boring, corporate-esque idiocy created to appeal to the musically ignorant and those who put style ahead of substance. music is very nearly dead (at least instrumentally driven music). too many dumb kids nowadays who think making curses rhyme = musical perspicacity.
I have memories from the age of three onwards, mostly of the things that scared me/made me happy/the smell of my dad and mom/my mom perfume when they were going out for the evening/ my dad rocking me to sleep and my betimes stories. – Then by five I remember music I loved and disagreements in the household…Etc….
Regarding Ariana, I think she is on a quest to prove her womanliness to her new more mature boyfriend, especially since his ex was considered a fetchingly sexy woman, It’s good to win someone’s attention, but now you have to keep it.
Ariana is beautiful woman but she is trapped in a child’s body so she will have to curse/use wry humor/accentuate her sexiness in order to be viewed as a sexy mature, desirable WOMAN.
I think she’s just trying to distance herself from her Nickelodeon (recent) past. Like she said, her character WAS a ditzy goody two shoes. Initially it seems she was still sort of presenting herself in a way that was close to that, perhaps trying to ease her Nickelodeon fans into her transition to pop star. Big Sean is 26, he’s only 5 years older than her. Imo, that’s not a huge difference.
agreed!
I was born in early 1980 and do remember the 80’s well, though I probably had no idea what was going on. The 90’s were fun. I look back at my high school photos and cringe at what I wore, though. I can’t believe some of it is coming back.
…who is Ariana Grande?
My thoughts exactly. UGH.
I loved the 90s. I remember it vividly because I was born in the early 80s. 👶 The reason why I loved it was because I didn’t have the responsibilities I have now. 🏠🚗💰I was a child and a teenager towards the end.
I had a Nintendo (64, game boy and the original Nintendo!) 👾. I had a pair of roller blades. I owned a Walkman and a discman 🎶🎼. I had to carry my music around with me. I listened to 90s pop. Had posters of backstreet boys, my older sister had posters of NKOTB. I actually remember watching the Golden Girls while the series was still running. I love TMNT. As a little kid I ran home everyday after school to watch it. Who could forget Shredder!
I was 19 years old in 1990 and I barely remember any of it. Someone fill me in please. Besides Little Miss Rhythmless.
I think the reason she “bugs”
People is because she wears a very self-contented look on her face. Maybe her natural expression, maybe a guard. But I think she’s really cute, talented and interesting.
I listened to an interview she did today and she inanely talked about being “dark” and loving scary movies like it made her especially unique. She also talked about being vegan like she was the first vegan who ever veganed. I have to say I rolled my eyes several times.
Being a 43-year old woman who has lived and enjoyed all decades since the 70s I am fed up with these self-obsessed, self-absorbed young narcissists who think they’re all terribly original and awesome and special. The world really doesn’t need to hear every single vapid useless thought bubble a team of PR people has painstakingly crafted to appeal to those who tweet & instagram incessantly. Grow some brains, some humility and pull your heads in. Stand in line with everyone else please.
Welcome to the American society.
Every mother and Dad tell their kid they are special and anything they do is special….So you get idiot kids.
Every school gives out a trophies to kids for just being mommy and daddy’s special kid. – it keeps the parents from complaining.
Every kid is raised to believe that he’s a conquering champion who must be heard and adored – blame mommy and daddy.
Every young child is raised to think that whatever they do is special and unique to the world and must be praised – blame mommy and daddy.
American parents live in a land of perpetual fantasy and raise their kids to inhabit that land.
Thanks. Maybe it’s the Aussie in me. We have inbuilt BS detectors.