In the promotional clip for Wicked, Ariana Grande says that she went in and sang for both roles, prepared to play either, just to be part of the show. She admits that while she loves Elphaba, Glinda was the part she felt like she was born to play. Social media absolutely agrees, as the actress has become a meme thanks to her performance.

"I think we all kind of knew why I was going in, and it was for Glinda," Grande says in a PEOPLE-exclusive clip from the 'Wicked' digital home release

Ariana Grande thinks she’d have “ended up in an insane asylum” if she hadn’t done so much preparation for ‘Wicked’ because it was a very different experience to anything she’s done in the past.

Ariana Grande embraced Glinda’s style long before landing the role. In a People-exclusive clip from Wicked’s digital release, the 31-year-old singer revealed she had stocked her

Ariana Grande must be into manifesting, because the lengths she went to in order to nab the role of Glinda in Wicked could only be described as such. I mean, how else are you going to categorize the fact that she stocked up on exclusively pink clothing—down to her own ding dang underroos—in the months leading up to even auditioning for the part?

Ariana Grande ’s Glinda is the queen of Shiz from the moment her dainty pink shoes touch down on the university’s non-yellow bricks in Wicked: Part I. And her reign is supported by her (mostly) devoted minions, played by Bowen Yang and Bronwyn James.