Singer Ariana Grande revealed in a video that the game she'd most likely be playing at 2 AM is Sackboy: A Big Adventure. Gaming has become a significantly more mainstream hobby than it was back in the early days of arcades and console. Now more than ever, people are turning to games of all genres to pass time during quarantine. Celebrities are no exception, with big stars like Annie Murphy from the TV show Schitt's Creek appearing in advertisements for the Nintendo Switch and rapper Logic buying expensive Pokemon cards. For people who were once called nerds and teased for playing video games when they were kids, it feels like a dream.

References and sound effects from video games have also made their way into music. Logic, the rapper mentioned above, has explicitly discussed the way that nostalgia for his childhood gaming habits has made its way into his music, from the Super Mario sound effects in his song "Lord Willin'" to the Chrono Trigger backing beat in "Used To Hate It". Drake references Mario's original name in the title of his song "Jumpman". Lana Del Rey has a song called "Video Games". Beyond entertainment, gaming has been providing musicians with inspiration, material, and samples for years now.

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Ariana Grande's song "Six-Thirty" also includes a reference to playing games, and in a new video where she answers fan questions, she reveals that the games she's referring to include Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Mario Kartand Mario PartyThe song includes the lyric "Whatcha gonna do when I'm bored and I wanna play video games at 2 AM?" In the video, Grande reads a fan tweet that asks which games she was referring to in the line. Grande says that at the time she wrote the lyric, she was referring to Mario Party and Mario Kart. She goes on to say that at the current moment, she'd "be talking about Sackboy", emphasizing how much she's been enjoying it. The Sackboy: A Big Adventure dev team posted the video on Twitter, thanking Grande for sharing her thoughts and for talking about how much she likes the game. Maybe this means that Grande was able to snag a PS5 during the recent shortages?

Fans will no doubt be excited to hear what Grande's been playing; it could even lead to a bump in sales for Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Sumo Digital, its developer. It's also interesting to hear about what goes into writing songs - the media that people consume frequently leaves impressions on them, which often turns up in the way we express ourselves, from fan art to cosplays. Perhaps most importantly, Grande sharing her gaming habits reminds fans and viewers on Twitter that at the end of the day, celebrities are people just like us. They may have access to more resources and opportunities than the average person, but hearing about how one of the biggest pop stars in the world likes to play video games at 2 am like the rest of us is oddly comforting. In a time when we're all forced to stay far apart from one another, stories like Ariana Grande's remind us of how close we truly are.

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