Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Adele, Taylor Swift and their movie outings

Hollywood is seeing a major influx of music artists.

Taylor Swift failed miserably in the musical Cats - Photo: Producer

At the beginning of the year, Ariana Grande was cruelly rejected by music for all the important Grammy nominations, but the cinema immediately consoled her with an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress, thanks to her role as the fairy Glinda in the musical Wicked .

Glinda is the role Grande was born for: beautiful, graceful, cool, carefree, and clueless; with a voice like a Disney princess, Grande had an impeccable debut role.

Actually just pretending to be yourself

Some people also criticized: Grande is just playing herself, that's why she plays well. That must remind us of Lady Gaga's early days in acting. A Star Is Born was a huge success, Gaga was even nominated for an Oscar for best actress, but people were still not satisfied: Gaga played a pop star, but in fact she was just playing herself.

Even in House of Gucci or Joker: Folie à Deux , when she took on complex, villainous roles, audiences still saw the ambition and seduction of Patricia Reggiani or the madness and unpredictability of Harley Quinn as actually reflecting Lady Gaga's own personality on the music stage.

Lady Gaga will appear in Wednesday season 2 - Photo: Game Rant

The hardest thing for a singer to do when acting is that a singer has always stuck to an image and should stick to an image, but an actor needs thousands of faces, not depending on the ego, on the self. Despite that, it is not easy to resist the attraction of the silver screen.

After Gaga and Grande, Sabrina Carpenter and Adele recently announced that they will also act in movies. Specifically, she will play the main role in an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland .

The character of curious little girl Alice with famous blonde hair is perhaps the most suitable role for Sabrina, who is associated with the image of a pretty doll.

Soulful love songs, a stunning voice and that's enough to make Adele an icon over the years.

And Adele? After announcing an indefinite hiatus from music, she's suddenly back in the movie business. Her upcoming film, Cry from Heaven , directed by Tom Ford, tells the story of a Venetian nobleman and a Calabrian cabaret master who rocked the world of 18th-century Italian opera.

With such a setting, it's not hard to imagine Adele playing a role with a similar temperament to herself in real life, a diva.

Second home in cinema

There was a golden age when Hollywood favored multi-talented stars, when musicals were a money-making goldmine.

At that time, the golden voices were also stars: for women there were Judy Garland, Doris Day; for men there were Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby.

It seems that Hollywood is witnessing a rebirth of that era, when famous singers found a second home in cinema.

Their advantage: they have natural charisma, and they don't have to put much pressure on themselves to perform well. If they perform well, they are favored over others in official awards. If they perform badly and the film fails, they just consider it a walk in the park.

Taylor Swift failed miserably as the femme fatale Bombalurina in Tom Hooper's musical Cats. The scene where she sings Macavity while trying to kidnap and imprison other cats, which should have been mysterious, seductive, and dangerous, instead made us laugh. But now hardly anyone mentions Taylor's misstep anymore.

And the influx isn’t limited to European and American singers. Earlier this year, Lisa, a member of the band BlackPink, made her acting debut in the third season of HBO’s The White Lotus, playing Mook, a luxury resort employee.

Suzy was also criticized when she first acted in a movie.

It's a flat and bland role, with no particular internal conflict or significant role. But that's okay.

K-pop idols of the previous generation such as Yoona or Suzy were often called “flower vases” when they first started acting. Yet now, even though they are no longer singing, they still act, and even act very successfully.

Regardless of whether Bon Appétit, Your Majesty offended anyone with its chili pepper origins, Yoona's drama became a global phenomenon. Yoona's cooking scenes were perfect, even though her acting was generally average.

But she doesn't need more than that. With the best idols being established singers, movies only add to their aura. They don't lose anything, if not a lot like Lady Gaga, then it's always embroidery on brocade.

Hien Trang

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