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A month later, Ariana Grande captures heartbreak, healing in 'eternal sunshine'

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Josiah Eleazar Antonio

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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/171258036131320240408 ariana.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Photo from Ariana Grande&#x27;s Instagram account. </div>MANILA <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">— A month after its release, Ariana Grande&#x27;s seventh studio album is still on repeat for avid Arianators and new listeners as she captured the emotions of heartbreak and healing in 35 minutes.The cohesiveness of the 13-track album with hits topping the charts like &quot;yes, and?&quot; along with &quot;we can&#x27;t be friends (wait for your love)&quot; sealed the album&#x27;s stability on streaming services.<p style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Grande&#x27;s seventh studio was album released in the Philippines at 1 p.m. and immediately the hashtags #eternalsunshine and Ariana Grande took the top spots on the Philippine trends on X, formerly Twitter, with nearly 300,000 tweets.<div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/2024/3/8/ariana-grande-releases-new-album-trends-in-ph-1405" style="color:rgb(199, 29, 29);text-decoration:none">RELATED: Ariana Grande releases new album &#x27;eternal sunshine&#x27;; trends in PH</a></div><p style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Many fans observed Grande&#x27;s reference to her past relationship with real estate agent Dalton Gomez. This article dissects &quot;eternal sunshine&quot; tracks and how it showed Grande&#x27;s growth to share a story through her songs.A surprise hit, &quot;intro (end of the world)&quot; serves as a good opener with its production likened to Disney theme songs asking how to navigate if a person is in the right relationship.The layers of the production of &quot;bye&quot; wowed listeners with a message of letting go of a relationship, making it a sibling to &quot;don&#x27;t wanna break up again&quot; which discussed her struggles in her relationship.The &quot;Saturn Returns Interlude&quot; was a good tone-setter to Grande&#x27;s album leading up to the title track, and &quot;supernatural&quot; which gives a very heavenly vibe and a smasher version with Troye Sivan.It was a treat for the fans as she included &quot;true story&quot;, a song leaked on social media before the album&#x27;s release, solidifying her message to the media painting her as the bad person. Grande&#x27;s 90s music influence also showed with &quot;the boy is mine&quot; which was interpolated from the song of the same name by Brandy and Monica.<div><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">With samples from &quot;Vogue&quot; by Madonna, &quot;yes, and&quot; talked about hate comments on social media.</div><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/01/23/24/ariana-grandes-yes-and-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard">Ariana Grande&#x27;s &#x27;yes, and?&#x27; debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100</a></div>It would be a whirlwind of emotions in &quot;we can&#x27;t be friends (wait for your love),&quot; showing how Grande&#x27;s songwriting skills have improved, with different interpretations about the media or her past relationship circulating online.Listeners can feel Grande&#x27;s pain when it came to &quot;i wish i hated you&quot; while acknowledging her shortcomings in &quot;imperfect for you&quot; showing how the artist shows her vulnerability through her songs.The last track &quot;ordinary things&quot; feat. Nonna was the perfect ender, answering her question on how to navigate her relationship.Grande&#x27;s &quot;eternal sunshine&quot; showed how much she has grown with her music throughout the years. Showing her vulnerability, Grande reached her full potential and has shown her process of healing and radiated it to her listeners hoping to help them navigate theirs.With the music videos and live performances boosting the appreciation to &quot;eternal sunshine&quot;, Grande&#x27;s promise for more content gives hope to Arianators and new listeners a deeper understanding on the album.<div><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">&quot;(O) ne month of eternal sunshine ... I<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"> love you all so much ... I<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"> cannot wait for everything that is yet to come within this eternal sunshine cycle <span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">(that has only just begun &amp; may it never end) I<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"> love you ... <span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">thank you,&quot; she said.</div>

A month after its release, Ariana Grande's seventh studio album is still on repeat for avid Arianators and new listeners as she captured the emotions of heartbreak and healing in 35 minutes.

A month after its release, Ariana Grande's seventh studio album is still on repeat for avid Arianators and new listeners as she captured the emotions of heartbreak and healing in 35 minutes.

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ALBUM REVIEW: A month later, Ariana Grande captures heartbreak, healing in 'eternal sunshine'

Josiah Eleazar Antonio,

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Published April 08, 2024 08:46 PM PHT

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