Ariana Grande is friends with the truth and is breaking new ground on her long-awaited seventh studio album, Eternal Sunshine.”
The project features the chart-topping single “yes, and?”, which debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and marked Grande’s eighth #1 and twenty-first Top 10 hit on the chart.
She plays with perceptions she knows she can’t control. But beyond these attacks he is more interested in the unpredictability of love. The album begins with a question that she tries to answer by the end of the record: “How can I know if I’m in the right relationship?”. At 30, Ariana isn’t so sure she’ll ever know if eternal love exists. Eternal Sunshine is a candid quest, a break-up album where the singer navigates new beginnings with some of the most inventive songs of her career to date. Ariana deals with the intense feelings of heartbreak and moves between moments of resilience, acceptance and hope for the future.
After posing the main question, the singer spends the next few songs fighting for herself and her relationship. On “Bye” she’s more than ready to give up, and “Don’t Wanna Break Up Again” paints a portrait of a neglectful partner who knows he needs to leave but still doesn’t have the courage. The opening songs have a 1970s pop sound, with Grande doing her best Diana Ross impersonation. R&B title track “Eternal Sunshine” delves even deeper into the pain. Ariana wants to “wipe her mind,” as in the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, after which the album is named.
The last four songs on Eternal Sunshine are some of the strongest of her career. “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” is as perfect as a great pop anthem can be. The single sounds like a love letter to the work of Max Martin, Grande’s primary (and longtime) collaborator, as well as the great pop princesses he’s collaborated with over the years.
In album-closing “Ordinary Things,” Grande comes as close as possible to answering her question from the album’s beginning. With the help of her Nonna, she acknowledges the fact that it’s stupid to understand how love works.
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