Bette Midler Calls Out Ariana Grande, Says She Looks “Ridiculous” Trying To Be Sexy

Bianca Gracie | November 25, 2014 6:38 am

Bette Midler may be all about girl power (her It’s The Girls LP tributes female pop groups), but the entertainer is definitely not shy to tell it like it is! The legendary diva spilled some tea in a recent interview with UK’s The Telegraph, where she called out Ariana Grande‘s try-hard image.

In the feature, Midler states:

“It’s terrible! It’s always surprising to see someone like Ariana Grande with that silly high voice, a very wholesome voice, slithering around on a couch,” – here, she does some slithering herself – “looking so ridiculous. I mean, it’s silly beyond belief and I don’t know who’s telling her to do it. I wish they’d stop. But it’s not my business, I’m not her mother. Or her manager. Maybe they tell them that’s what you’ve got to do. Sex sells. Sex has always sold.”

Grande has definitely turned up the sex factor ever since leaving Nickelodeon — remember that original, super creepy Yours Truly album cover that was eventually scrapped? But that’s none of our business…

Read on after the jump to see Bette Midler’s advice on how not to be a whore!

The singer goes on to tell The Telegraph the music business today has completely changed from when she started, especially with the overexposure of sex. Her advice? “Trust your talent. You don’t have to make a whore out of yourself to get ahead. You really don’t.”

“Well whatever strictures there were have fallen apart. And now it’s whatever you feel like doing you can do. I mean, apparently people really like to pretend they’re having sex. They really like to slap each other’s butts.” She slaps her own butt. “I mean, don’t ask me. It’s beyond me. I’m too old. I don’t know what the end game is going to be. I don’t know where you go from all that sex in your twenties. I don’t know how you sustain it.”

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[via The Telegraph]

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