From track listing to early reviews, what to know about their ‘divorce album’

Ariana Grande’s latest album, eternal sunhas officially arrived.

The 13-track album, the first since 2020 Positionsdelves into the pop star’s innermost thoughts as she navigates grief, self-discovery and transformation near the end of a broken relationship.

Fans can’t get enough. Since its midnight release on March 8, the album has reached No. 1 about him US Apple Music Albums Chart. Here’s everything you need to know about Grande’s new music, which many are referring to as the singer’s “divorce album.”

The track list

eternal sun It has 13 songs with a total duration of just over 35 minutes. Their first single “Yes, and?” released on January 12. The second single is “We Can’t Be Friends”.

The full track list is:

1. “Introduction (End of the World)”

2. “Bye bye”

3. “I don’t want to break up again”

4. “Saturn Return Interlude”

5. “Eternal sun”

6. “Supernatural”

7. “True story”

8. “The boy is Mine”

9. “Yes, and?”

10. “We can’t be friends (wait for your love)”

11. “I wish I hated you.”

12. “Imperfect for you”

13. “Ordinary Things” (feat. Nonna)

It is Grande’s seventh studio album. She has already been released Sincerely (2013), My all (2014), Dangerous woman (2016), Sweetener (2018), Thanks, next (2019) and Positions (2020).

What’s the backstory?

The album’s release comes months after Grande finalized her divorce from Dalton Gomez in October 2023. They were married for almost two years.

In July 2023, news broke that Grande and Dalton had broken up, with TMZ reporting that the couple had been separated since January. Days later, People reported that Grande was dating her. Wicked co-star Ethan Slater. Not long after their relationship became public, Slater filed for divorce from his ex-wife Lilly Jay, with whom he welcomed a son in 2022.

some fans they were angry with big at that time for getting involved with a married man. However, sources said that both Grande and Slater were already separated from their spouses when they started dating.

New music video

The emotional video for “We Can’t Be Friends” is a tribute to the 2004 film. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mindstarring Jim Carey and Kate Winslet as an ex-couple who erases each other from their respective memories.

The video shows Grande erasing the memories of an ex, played by American horror story star Evan Peters.

End with both completing the procedure. Then they come across different couples.

big one told him Zane Lowe from Apple Music in a March 7 interview that the original film’s themes, involving love, memory, and identity, are what inspired her the most while writing the album.

“I think the movie is so beloved because a lot of people can relate to knowing something isn’t right but loving it so much and wanting to stay,” she said. “I think in a way I understood that these songs had little fragments of that theme. “I was really inspired by that.”

Is it a divorce album?

In their album review, Rolling Stone described eternal sun as “a divorce album that goes through all the stages of grief.” He guardian called it a “perceptive post-divorce album” that is “nearly flawless.”

The first clue, “Introduction (End of the world)”, begins with the line: “How do I know if I’m in the right relationship?”

“Aren’t you supposed to really know that shit / feel it in your bones and own that shit / I don’t know,” Grande sings. “Then I had this interaction that I’ve been thinking about for about five weeks / I wonder if he’s thinking about it too and he’s smiling / I wonder if he knows that’s what inspires me / I wonder if he’s judging me like I’m doing now. .”

Fans also get the message and praise the singer on X for writing about “healing and going through the stages of grief from your divorce.”

One fan called him “his best work to date,” writing that those who “have been through difficult relationships or witnessed a divorce firsthand” will “completely understand.”

Is Ethan Slater the inspiration behind ‘The Boy Is Mine’?

The album’s eighth track was inspired by Brandy and Monica’s 1998 hit of the same name. The original song is about two women who clash over their mutual affection for the same man, each claiming him as “mine.”

In Grande’s version, she has a different vision.

“How can it be? You and me / We could be meant to be, we can’t unsee it / But I don’t want to cause any scenes,” he sings. “Normally I’m so unproblematic / So independent / Tell me why / ‘Cause the boy is mine Mine”.

Fans have suggested that the lyrics are about Slater and the situation surrounding their respective divorces.

“Reading these lyrics and knowing they are written (about) Ethan Slater,” said one fan. wrote in X. Others I have simply referred to it as “The Ethan Slater Song.”

When talking to lowe Of “The Boy Is Mine,” Grande said she had “always wanted to reimagine” the original in some way.

“I thought, ‘I think this is a really bad idea, but there’s a big group of my fans who really love a bad girl anthem,’” she explained. “And this is kind of an elevated version of that.”

Meanwhile, fans praised Grande for not sampling the original song.

“I’m actually really glad Ariana’s version of ‘The Boy is Mine’ doesn’t sample Brandy and Monica’s and is an original song,” said one fan. tweeted. “I just know that the meltdown this song is going to cause is going to be crazy.”

In a December 2023 interview, Monica told The Hollywood Reporter that the song was “a part of history that I would love to keep intact” and that if someone should do it, they should “make it their own and do something totally different.” .”

Whats Next?

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