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2024 · republic records · released 2024-03-08

eternal sunshineariana grande’s 2024 album

a break-up record shaped like a concept album

  • 70s-adjacent synth pop
  • Max Martin
  • Ilya Salmanzadeh
  • Shintaro Yasuda
Ariana Grande during the eternal sunshine era
Jonathan Bailey, Ariana Grande y Cynthia Erivo en una entrevista antes de la premiere de “Wicked” en la Ciudad de México, el 11 de noviembre de 2024. Beto Pasillas · CC BY 3.0 · credits

every one creative-commons licensed, credited under the frame, and listed on credits.

the story

named for the film, and structured a little like it: the record circles the same relationship from different distances rather than telling it in order. that is a real formal choice and it is what separates this from a straightforward break-up album.

sonically it is the coldest-sounding thing she has made — synth-forward, reverb-heavy, with a disco pulse under several tracks and almost no acoustic instrumentation. the warmth is entirely in the vocal, which is mixed unusually close against all that space.

it arrived after a four-year gap during which she had been mostly acting, and it plays like someone who had time to decide what they wanted to say. it was followed in 2025 by a deluxe edition, brighter days ahead, that extended rather than padded it.

worth knowingthe album's lead single is built on a four-on-the-floor house pulse and a piano figure that quotes the vocabulary of early-90s club records rather than 70s disco, despite the era's visual styling pointing the other way.

why it looks like this

iced blue-grey, heavy film grain, and the one era that swaps its display face for an old-style garamond — the record reaches for the 70s and the typography goes with it.

the songs

the whole record, in order — all 13 tracks, with a preview on each. 10 of them have a full write-up here so far; the rest are listed with everything we can state as fact and nothing we cannot.

  1. intro (end of the world)no write-up yet1:32
  2. bye2:45
  3. don't wanna break up again2:54
  4. Saturn Returns Interludeno write-up yet0:42
  5. eternal sunshine3:30
  6. supernatural2:43
  7. true storyno write-up yet2:43
  8. the boy is mine2:54
  9. yes, and?#13:35
  10. we can't be friends (wait for your love)#13:49
  11. i wish i hated you2:34
  12. imperfect for you3:03
  13. ordinary things feat. Nonna2:49

running order and previews from apple. released 2024-03-08.

around the same time

23 more recordings released alongside this era rather than on it — singles, features on other people’s records, deluxe cuts, soundtracks and christmas songs. every one with a preview and a way to go and hear it properly.

further reading

longer pieces on this, written to be checkable — every claim sourced and stamped with the date it was last verified.

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