Ariana Grande has a serious message for her fans following the release of Eternal sunshine.
“I just wanted to say that anyone sending hateful messages to the people in my life based on your interpretation of the album does not support me and is doing the absolute opposite of what I would ever encourage (and also completely misinterpreting the intent behind the music)…” Grande wrote on Saturday, March 9, via Instagram Story.
“I ask that you please not do that,” she continued. “It’s not how you should support me. it’s the opposite. While this album captures many painful moments, it is also interwoven with a thread of deep, heartfelt love. If you can’t hear that, listen more carefully. Thank you.”
Eternal sunshine is partly named after the 2004 film Eternal sunshine of the spotless mindstarring Kate Winslet And Jim Carrey, whose characters undergo a procedure to permanently erase each other from their memories. These images are reflected in her music video for ‘we can’t be Friends (wait for your love)’, which stars Evan Peters.
Grande’s studio album, Eternal sunshinereleased on Friday, March 8. A day earlier, a source revealed exclusively to We weekly with which the album tells “her side of the story” about her romance with Bad Co-star Ethan Slater and divorce from Dalton Gomez.
“Ariana thinks these songs will give her fans a lot of insight,” the source said Us about the album.
In June 2023, news broke that Grande and Slater, 31, started dating. A source confirmed this Us at the time the pop star and Gomez quietly split after “having some issues for months.” Grande filed for divorce in September 2023, two years after they tied the knot.
Slater, for his part, is still dealing with his divorce from his estranged wife Lilly Jay, which raised questions about the timeline of his relationship with Grande. While a source said that Us in July 2023 that “Ariana and Dalton split in January and Ethan is separated from his wife,” another source claimed, “Ethan dumped Lilly a few days before the news about him and Ariana broke and said he wanted a divorce . Lilly never saw it coming.”
Grande stated during a February appearance on the “Zach Sang Show” that she was “nervous” about the album’s reception following the release of her single “Yes, And?”
“I feel like we don’t need to go into details, but of course there is an insatiable frustration, an inexplicable, hellish feeling when you see how people misunderstand the people you love, and you and whatever, Grande said.
“I’m so nervous because there are pieces of it [the album] touching on things that are real and then pieces of it are just part of the concept too,” she continued. “So, what is that separation? It’s so scary to leave it to these selective memory people to decipher it. It’s scary, but I digress. Too late. The vinyl records have been pressed.” Large described Eternal sunshine as her most ’emotional’ album to date.