Is she really sitting on that stool?
Ariana Grande’s 2014 album “My Everything” is getting attention on Twitter this week after BuzzFeed’s Jesse McLaren tried to re-create her pose and found it difficult ... perhaps even impossible:
I've done the research and there's no way her ass is sitting on that stool. pic.twitter.com/AIGNpcJn6G
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) October 15, 2017
The discussion gained steam when it was retweeted by Grande herself:
next week on mythbusters https://t.co/1tgyXtfyC6
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) October 16, 2017
That sparked comments, theories, stool truthers and even multiple attempts to re-create the cover, with hilariously mixed results:
pretty hurts. I remade it because I strive for perfectionist pic.twitter.com/msiz4AIVPD
— kenny🕸 (@Slhut) October 16, 2017
She's lean and nimble, you're large and clunky. That's why she's the superstar.
— Raissa L (@raissa8888) October 15, 2017
hard to control for variables like stool size but i think it’s real pic.twitter.com/gWMKgC5gvW
— Michael Greg🎃ry (@schmoyoho) October 17, 2017
But did you subject your results to a committee of your peers? Were the experiments run in a controlled, double-blind environment?
— Nick Herrgott (@NTHerrgott) October 15, 2017
currently pic.twitter.com/wx0nI70VbU
— soumia♡ (@GrandeAdore_) October 16, 2017
@walkerkaplan jet fuel can't melt stool beams
— Charlie Kaplan (@ciwk) October 16, 2017
I literally just busted my ass @DrYoshua pic.twitter.com/fbXUocrRwy
— 🎃Shadow Bae 👻 (@StellarK22) October 16, 2017
She does seem to have an unusual center of gravity.
— Barry Rosen (@BAR0ke) October 15, 2017
Actually, if you could see behind her the stool looks like this pic.twitter.com/UQA48riHoG
— Michael Benjamin (@mfbenji) October 15, 2017
I want a whole Grande scientific analysis, like the one done to test whether both Jack and Rose could fit on that raft.
— Michele (@michele866) October 16, 2017
Easy ! 😂🙏🏼❤️ @ArianaGrande pic.twitter.com/fI7kuYMzFr
— Daniel (@Lekmind) October 16, 2017
Perhaps the stool is there but most of her weight is leaning against a black wall?
— Simone (@Vrtlnsanity) October 15, 2017
No not photo shopped my mate didn't photo shop pic.twitter.com/b9zKniDVMK
— Spooky Kimiana 🌹🌙 (@agbxdangerous) October 16, 2017
U dont have the ponytail, that’s what balances everything out
— WHO wants lasagna (@highlighthunnie) October 15, 2017
Nice try. pic.twitter.com/suAW82a8Q9
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) October 15, 2017
This is important work. NSF grant for this man!
— Dark As Vim (@AardvarkRatnikk) October 16, 2017
Me trying to figure out how @ArianaGrande did that pic.twitter.com/LC8nJ9Gb6D
— Ethan Alexander (@EthanAlexIndie) October 16, 2017
So was it a photo editing job?
Someone tweeted other images from the shoot that appeared to confirm that Grande, indeed, was seated on the stool.
LOL😂😂 believe it or not she actually did, here are the outtakes from the shoot pic.twitter.com/XWYJfMgyZP
— Jimmy (@JimBoy_Grande) October 15, 2017
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