Ariana Grande may be one of the biggest pop stars in the world, and she's also a gamer. Grande has never been shy about her love of the medium, but in 2020, she mentioned video games in her song "six thirty" from the album Positions. In a recent fan Q&A, she admitted she's been really loving Sackboy: A Big Adventure from the LittleBigPlanet series.Grande's "six thirty" lyric is, "What you gon' do when I'm bored and I wanna play video games at 2 a.m.?" When asked by a fan on Twitter what games she was referring to in the song, she said that when she wrote it, she was thinking of games like Super Mario Party and Mario Kart. However, she said her current late night go-to video game is Sackboy: A Big Adventure."If I sang it right now, I'd be talking about Sackboy," Grande said. "We beat Sackboy and that's... yeah, a big one. That's a doozy, that game."The Sackboy Twitter account thanked Grande for her fandom and the free advertisement, saying, "It's literally music to our ears!" Then they sent a follow-up tweet saying the titular Sackboy is "a BIG fan" of Grande's.
Grande has even appeared as a video game character. In 2017, she became a playable character in the mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Her character is named Dangerous Ariana, based off her popular 2016 album Dangerous Woman. She wears a latex bunny mask, similar to the one Grande wears on her album cover. Brave Exvius also features Chic Ariana, Sportive Ariana and Charming Kitty Ariana, so players can choose which outfit/version they want to play.
Although Grande has yet to appear as a musical artist in a game, "live" concerts have been growing more popular. It seems like it will only be a matter of time before she'll join artists like Post Malone and the Gorillaz, and translate her love of video games into a concert for one.
LittleBigPlanet's Sackboy: A Big Adventure is available now for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.