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Ariana Grande Revisits the Pain and Joy of Love Lost and Found on ‘Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead’: Album Review
On the deluxe edition of 'Eternal Sunshine,' Ariana Grande revisits the pain of her divorce and celebrates her new romance across six songs.
On “Past Life,” the penultimate track of “Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead,” Ariana Grande admits that she’s ready to move on from the divorce that cast a shadow over her seventh album. Across “Brighter Days Ahead,” she doesn’t offer anything strikingly different or out of step thematically and sonically; rather, it feels like a capstone on a conflicting chapter in her life, an opportunity to say things that were left unsaid and address how challenging — and restorative — it can be to face what you’ve endured. That message happens to be rooted in a place of transition on “Eternal Sunshine,” a snapshot of Grande at an emotional crossroads, still mired by the inevitably complicated feelings that come with a divorce and the promise that a new relationship can balm them.
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