Ariana Grande is giving us a glimpse at her future—and searching again at her previous.
The musician and Depraved star simply dropped each a deluxe version of her album Everlasting Sunshine and a 26-minute-long brief movie known as Brighter Days Forward; the movie continues the storyline of her “We Cannot Be Associates (Look forward to Your Love)” music video, which was impressed by the beloved 2000s film Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts. The brief movie opens with Grande’s character Peaches— an aged-up Grande, full with lengthy, graying blonde hair that flows down her again as a substitute of in her signature ponytail, a listening to help, and wrinkles—being prepped to revisit her final remaining recollections.
As we watch, the older model of Peaches watches essentially the most treasured and significant moments of her life, together with a montage of Grande’s IRL dad and mom and grandparents dancing and clips of herself as a bit of child.(Belief me, you would possibly need to watch this with a number of tissues close by.) Grande-as-Peaches wears her hair pulled midway up and again, pinned with a handful of flower pins. Her arms are wrinkled, although she’s nonetheless carrying her go-to French manicure, which has been a mainstay in her routine for years. Her hand tattoos, most notably the fingertip designs, are current and accounted for, although they’ve light with time. Her poppy tattoo, on the sting of 1 hand, nonetheless appears nice although! (The particular results make-up and prosthetics have been finished by award-winning artist Justin Raleigh.) All through the brief movie, Grande performs a number of songs from the album whereas Peaches watches—in her ponytail, no much less—and walks by way of the wreckage of the life she left behind earlier than getting into her future.
Brighter Days Forward, just like the Everlasting Sunshine album and the video for “We Cannot Be Associates”, is a meditation about how the joyful and painful moments of life can coexist, serving to you grow to be the particular person you are meant to be. This idea reveals on Grande-as-Peaches’s face, which is etched with the strains and recollections. In 2023, Grande got emotional when speaking about her use of injectables and why she stop utilizing them, telling Vogue that she wasn’t essentially swearing them off perpetually, however was joyful together with her resolution within the second. “I do know for me, I used to be similar to, oh — I need to see my well-earned cry strains and smile strains. I hope my smile strains get deeper and deeper and I chuckle increasingly. And I simply assume growing old … it may be such a phenomenal factor.”
