Ariana Grande's opening night at 3Arena in Dublin proved why she is the world's most interesting pop star

It was an effervescent and often moving turn by an artist with a meaningful claim to the title of world’s most interesting pop star.

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The mawkish Hollywood version of Ariana Grande’s new tour would have included a section in which the 26-year-old bared her soul about the pain she had gone through following the 2017 bombing of her concert in Manchester. But Grande wasn’t minded to follow anyone’s script but her own in a searing performance which let her songs do the talking.