2024 is popping out to be the yr of Ariana Grande.
Grande, 30, introduced that her seventh studio album, titled Eternal Sunshine, will drop on March 8, 2024. This shall be her first album since Positions arrived in 2020.
The singer revealed the information in a sequence of snaps through Instagram on Wednesday, January 17, the place she wearing a white child doll prime with pink tulle gloves and matching pink lipstick. She captioned her submit, “Eternal sunshine. 3.8.”
While different particulars in regards to the album are nonetheless unknown, Grande dropped its first single, titled “Yes, And?”, and its accompanying music video final week, the place some eagle-eyed followers picked up on one main Easter egg.
In the music video, viewers observed {that a} dance occasion takes place at 41.0359 N – 71.9545 W, which is in Montauk, New York. The location performs a key position within the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the place star Jim Carrey tries to wipe his reminiscence of a former lover (Kate Winslet).
Since the video’s launch, followers accurately started calling her album Eternal Sunshine, as Grande has been a fan of Carrey’s and has undergone a number of modifications in her love life over the previous yr. (Grande was the middle of controversy when she moved on from ex-husband Dalton Gomez to Wicked costar Ethan Slater.)
In her monitor “Yes, And?”, Grande seemingly addresses the general public chatter about her private life, singing, “Don’t comment on my body, do not reply. / Your business is yours and mine is mine. / Why do you care so much whose — I ride?”
In the refrain, Grande sings, “say that s—t with your chest,” including, “Be your own f—kin’ best friend.”
Days after information broke that Grande and Gomez, 28, had referred to as it quits in July 2023, Slater, 31, filed for divorce from his estranged spouse, Lilly Jay. (The pair wed in 2018 and share a 16-month-old son.) Jay later addressed the break up in an interview with Page Six, telling the outlet, “[Ariana’s] the story, really. Not a girl’s girl. My family is just collateral damage.”
Grande beforehand teased her upcoming album in a carousel of snaps through Instagram, writing, “See you next year.” In the December 2023 submit, she shared pics contained in the studio, and tagged her document label, Republic Records, in addition to director Christian Breslauer and producer Ilya Salmanzadeh.
The submit additionally confirmed a photograph of Grande crying in addition to a video of her mom, Joan, dancing. She shared the submit to her Instagram Story with the caption, “The two moods of the album.”
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