OMG! Ariana Grande ditches signature ponytail - see her new look!*

Almost no one remembers her this way! Shocking -- isn't it?

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OMG! Ariana Grande ditches signature ponytail - see her new look!*

It might be the end of an era… or rather, the end of a hair-a.

Ariana Grande has seemingly ditched her signature ponytail, something she has had for about as long as anyone can remember.

The singer posted a seflie to Instagram on Nov. 15. In the snap, her hair falls just past her shoulders, and her ponytail is nowhere to be found.

"This filter took my eyebrows away but i promise they're there," she captioned the image, making no reference to the new look. 

Her fans, though, were quick to notice, and they were quick to applaud.

"UM EXCUSE ME HI NEW HAIR I LOVE ITTT," one person said. Another said, "Loving the new hair my queen."

"Omg omg omg omg it looks so perfect on you," another fan said.

In 2014, she told fans why she continued to wear a ponytail.

"I wear it in a pony tail because my actual hair is so broken that it looks absolutely ratchet and absurd when I let it down," she said on Facebook. "It's all that works for now (AND I'm comfortable for the first time in years)."

The ponytail was fairly iconic, considering how long Ariana kept the look. In 2016, she told Byrdie, "I had no idea that it was going to become, like, a thing."

Here is my response; A plea for sanity during this culturally turbulent, and potentially traumatic epoch in pop culture history!

I am a rarity. I am an old timer who remembers our Ari BP (before the poni-tail) all the way back when she acted in the kids’ sit-coms Victorious and Sam and Cat, eons ago in the era that time has forgotten -- 2010 through 2014. If you get Teen-Nick, they show episodes from these series several times nearly every day. Calm down everyone! We loved Ari before the pony tail, and we will – eventually – learn to love her AFTER the pony tail as well.

I extend my deepest appreciation to those hearty and hale individuals quoted above for daring to be in the van garde of pop culture hair do critics! Four – count ‘em FOUR OMGs is indeed boldly supportive. Has the art of Jackson Pollock ever warranted four OMGs? Certainly not. It would not have deserved it. Another commenter appears to be extending salutations to the now non-existent pony tail – apparently saying ‘Hi’ to it. Has anyone ever felt sufficiently moved to feel compelled to address a Picasso, a Brancusi, or a Cezanne with a greeting as if it were a human being? No, and none of them would have deserved it! All their art actually exists, yet Ari’s non-pony tail is such an abstract artistic statement as to actually evoke comment owing to it’s very non-existence!   

*Sorry, I am NOT SHOWING Ari’s new look, for fear that the very non-sight of the non-existent pony tail may lead to mass rioting in the streets among our society’s less – enlightened types.

By the way -- It’s been a couple years, but Katy Perry’s ‘new’ hairdo still really sucks!