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You Can't Do That on YouTube: Ariana Grande's Long Way From Nickelodeon There is a particular vertigo that comes from watching someone you first met in green  slime grow up into someone auditioning for prestige. Ariana Grande spent her adolescence on Nickelodeon , the network that once built an entire brand identity around dumping goo on children, for the crime of answering trivia correctly . Somewhere between that and her turn as Glinda in Wicked , a switch flipped in the public imagination : she stopped being a kid who could hit a whistle note and became, briefly , a Serious Actress . The Glinda performance earned the kind of praise that doesn't usually attach itself to former teen stars — real notices, real awards conversation, the sense that a corner had been turned. Which makes the arrival of Petal a genuinely interesting swerve . The title track's video is a seven-minute short film : an audition room, a panel of leering industry men, a chainsaw, ...