Ariana Grande launched the deluxe model of her 2024 album, Everlasting Sunshine, Friday, together with a virtually 30-minute brief movie, Brighter Days Forward.
Set to a backdrop of the album’s songs, the brief movie picks up 70 years after the Depraved star’s “We Can’t Be Buddies (Anticipate Your Love)” music video. In that 2024 music video, she performs Peaches, a heartbroken younger girl visiting a clinic named Brighter Days Inc. to have the reminiscences of her misplaced love (performed by Evan Peters) wiped from her thoughts.
In Brighter Days Forward, Grande is now an aged girl, visiting the identical clinic to attempt its new process, reminiscence restoration. The service comes at a value, in keeping with a launch: The relived reminiscences are completely erased after viewing. All through the brief movie, launched Friday morning, Grande’s Peaches seems again at her life via clips of reminiscences, together with what look like actual childhood residence movies of the chart-topping pop star.
Everlasting Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Forward options six new tracks from the Oscar-nominated, Grammy Award-winning artist. The unique album, launched a yr in the past, earned the singer her sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 and had two songs [“Yes, And?” and “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”] hit No. 1 on the Sizzling 100 chart.
Everlasting Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Forward options new songs together with the brand new single, “Twilight Zone.”
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The Depraved star has had a whirlwind yr for the reason that launch of Everlasting Sunshine. She earned her first Oscar nomination for her position of Glinda within the adaptation of the hit stage musical; the movie’s second half, Depraved: For Good, is slated to be launched later this yr. If the stage musical is something to go by, it’s prone to be a lot heavier than the primary movie. “I’m nonetheless recovering,” Grande beforehand advised The Hollywood Reporter of engaged on the second movie.
Grande and co-star Cynthia Erivo additionally opened the 2025 Academy Awards. The “Thank U, Subsequent” singer kicked the efficiency off along with her rendition of “Someplace Over the Rainbow.” Erivo then sang “House” from The Wiz. The pair then carried out a piece of Depraved’s “Defying Gravity.”
Particular fan screenings of Brighter Days Forward are being held on Sunday (March 30) in L.A., New York, Chicago and Grande’s hometown of Boca Raton, Florida. Watch the brief movie under.
