Ariana Grande Thanks The Queen of Pop

Ariana Grande posted a picture Wednesday with Madonna, someone Grande has consistently cited as an inspiration and mentor. The caption on the photo read “thank you @madonna… u know why,” with a heart emoji and an emoji of the Golden Gate Bridge – an emoji Grande has used often when posting about her new music.

This is not the first time the two hitmakers have met – Grande joined Madonna onstage in Miami during her Rebel Heart Tour and also performed at Madonna’s 2016 charity event at Art Basel in Miami.

The picture excited Grande’s fans and also sparked curiosity as to why the picture was posted now, and whether the pic is from a prior event or was taken recently. Grande has been finishing up her upcoming studio album Sweetener, due August 17th, and fans were quick to hope that a Madonna collaboration will be on the album.

Meanwhile, Ariana has gotten candid about last year’s terrorist attack during her concert in Manchester, which took the lives of 22 people.

“When I got home from tour, I had really wild dizzy spells, this feeling like I couldn’t breathe,” she revealed to ELLE Magazine during her recent cover interview. “I would be in a good mood, fine and happy, and they would hit me out of nowhere. I’ve always had anxiety, but it had never been physical before. There were a couple of months straight where I felt so upside down.”

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That feeling is what fueled the marketing campaign behind her upcoming album Sweetener, in which everything is flipped upside down. Though the full record is the result of her processing the trauma, one song in particular addresses her anxiety.

“It’s all the voices in my head talking to one another,” she says of “Get Well Soon,” which was co-written by Pharrell Williams.

“You hear about these things. You see it on the news, you tweet a hashtag. It’s happened before, and it’ll happen again,” she says. “It makes you sad, you think about it for a little, and then people move on. But experiencing something like that firsthand, you think of everything different.”

And lucky enough to score a ticket for Ariana’s the Amazon Music Unboxing concert in New York City were in for a treat when she performed “The Light Is Coming” for just the second time.

Grande performed a 10-song set which featured the hits “No Tears Left to Cry” and “Dangerous Woman” and streamed live on Amazon and Twitch.

The Nicki Minaj-assisted “The Light Is Coming” dropped June 20th.