Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine lyrics about divorce and boyfriend explained

08 March 2024 , 14:00

882     0

Ariana lets her music do the talking and has recently been through a divorce and started dating someone new (Image: PR PIC)

Ariana Grande could have just gotten herself a Grammy nomination with her new album

The pop star released her seventh studio album or as Ariana's fans like to call it, AG7, on Friday. Eternal Sunshine was named after Jim Carey and Kate Winslet's 2004 film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which follows a couple that breaks up and decides to forget about each other through a medical procedure.

One thing Ariana will make sure to do is to let her music do the talking. The singer appears to highlight her failed marriage to Dalton Gomez and her new relationship with Ethan Slater through her lyrics.

READ MORE: Ever-changing faces of The Kardashian family as they deny work from nose jobs to fillers

Ariana Grande sings about ex-husband in new album

The second song in the album, Bye, appears to talk about how hard she tried to fight for her marriage to work when she sings: "This ain’t the first time I’ve been hostage to these tears / I can’t believe I’m finally moving through my fears / At least I know how hard we tried both you and me / Didn’t we, didn’t we?"

Ariana Grande teases new music with vocals in recording studio as fans go wild

The fifth song in the album, Eternal Sunshine, appears to hit out at Dalton once again. In the first verse, Ariana sings about how she and an ex weren't meant to be. She sings: "I, I don't care what people say / We both know I couldn't change you / I guess you could say the same / Can't rearrange truth'."

Ariana released her seventh studio album on Friday (PR PIC)

Ariana sings about her new relationship with Ethan Slater (PR PIC)

She calls her unnamed ex a liar when she sings: "I've never seen someone lie like you do / So much, even you start to think it's true."

She then sings about how they've both moved on in the pre-chorus: "So now we play our separate scenes / Now, now she's in my bed, layin' on your chest'. In the chorus, she adds: "Hope you feel alright when you're in her / I found a good boy and he's on my side / You're just my eternal sunshine, sunshine."

She sings about Ethan on the fifth track (@michelleyeoh_official/Instagram)

Ariana introduces fans to her new man - thought to be Ethan - in the fifth track and continues on the second, Supernatural. The song is about a brand new relationship and how it feels out of this world. She talks about how she just wants to be around this man. The passion of the song then goes into lust and intimacy as she talks about wanting to be "claimed".

The chorus completes the song: "This love's possessin' me, but I don't mind at all / It's like supernatural / It's takin' over me, don't wanna fight the fall / It's like supernatural."

On, The Boy is Mine, the eighth song of the album, was inspired by Brandy and Monica's 1998 hit. In the pre-chorus, she reminisces on him having something she likes. It goes: "Somethin' about him is made for somebody like me / Baby, come over, come over (Oh my) / And God knows I'm tryin', but there's just no use in denying."

Jailene Cuevas