Ariana Grande He says he will “always” make music, but he also wants to spread his wings.

He “Wicked“the star announced Wednesday while discussing her career, which includes two Grammy Awardssix Number 1 Albums and multiple Guinness world records that the next decade will see her move away from pop and return to her original passion: musical theater.

“I’m going to say something so scary.” Grande told “The Bodybuilders” podcast hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. “It’s going to scare the hell out of my fans and everyone. I love you, you will accept it and we will be here forever.”

“I’m always going to make music,” the 31-year-old continued. “I’m always going to go on stage. I will always do pop stuff, I promise. But I don’t think doing it at the pace I’ve been doing it for the last 10 years is what I see in the next 10 years.”

Grande has been on a whirlwind press tour for the upcoming Broadway adaptation of “Wicked,” in which she plays a benevolent witch opposite Cynthia Erivo‘s headline, and she said Wednesday that it reminded her how important this creative outlet really is to her.

“I love musical theater, reconnecting with this part of me that started in musical theater and loves comedy,” Grande said. “And that heals me, finding roles to use these parts of myself and put them in little homes, characters, fragments, voices and songs.”

Many were apparently confused when Grande Suddenly his voice changed completely. mid-interview in June while promoting the film, but the singer later explained that he spent “a lot of time playing a character every day” and that he has a very wide and trained vocal range.

Grande also criticized the double standard in which male actors are praised for their “brilliant” physical transformations while women like her are placed “under such a microscope” of judgment and said it is “a strange thing” to experience in person.

While the former child star has released seven studio albums since 2013, Grande started on Broadway in the musical “13” when she was still a teenager, and said Wednesday that the theatrical vocation centered on the song remains her true “heart.”

However, Grande assured her devoted fans that she will never completely turn her back on music: “Art is also what fuels me, whatever its capacity. I will always be doing and creating six different things at once. I don’t see that going anywhere. I just see it changing.”