The accompaniment to Ariana Grande’s short film with the same title tells a moving and riveting story — offering a new ‘happily ever after’ facet to the original eternal sunshine album.
Ariana Grande has been busy. Busy playing Glinda in Wicked, busy going through a divorce, busy creating music, busy with her new boyfriend, and busy making a short film. She unpacks all of this in just 6 songs that act as an extension to her 2024 release, eternal sunshine, a concept based on the 2004 film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
The biggest critique I have is that it’s impossible to believe these tracks were left off of the original record. Just a few tracks in, there’s more of an “Ariana imprint” as fans compare the song “dandelion” to the likes of her thank u, next era and “Hampstead” to her Dangerous Woman era.
There’s something special about this album and era as a whole, and there’s a clear focus on lyricism that has been absent in her past records. Grande has always been a vocalist and hitmaker first, so it’s especially exhilarating to see true intent behind the words she sings so beautifully.
If one thing is certain, maturity looks great on Ariana Grande — whether in music or on the big screen, and there is something very audibly freeing about that. If this was the last album she ever made, it would leave the greatest legacy and broadening her horizons was the right move to make.
