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Ariana Grande Is Telling This Story Herself
Eternal Sunshine stares directly into the past — and recontextualizes it.
Eternal Sunshine is, on the surface, an entertainment institution’s performance of intimacy.Like Spotless Mind’s Joel Barish, these songs fill in our picture of the end of her marriage and shed its own terrible memories of betrayal and loneliness, releasing them for listeners to unpack their own romantic distress (or, as Grande has advised against, to show up in Gomez’s mentions looking for answers). Each production is a short but scenic twisting side-road journey to the highway, getting you to your destination screamingly fast with a bit of scenery to boot: In Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You Been Gone,” mannered guitar notes burst into a slick pop-punk that mirrors the singer’s hairpin turn from rage to relief; in Sweetener ’s “God Is a Woman,” a riff suggestive of scratching at David Gilmour’s performance in Pink Floyd’s “Dogs” is subsumed by bubbly funk. “The Boy Is Mine” has elicited chuckles for claiming to be “unproblematic,” as have the “self-soothe” and “codependency” in “Don’t Wanna Break Up Again.” (Giving YouTube astrologer Diana Garland a track to talk about Saturn returning and quoting her meditation coach Davidji in the Zane interview, Grande lets her self-care journey trickle into the album and rollout.)
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