Eternal Sunshinewas her sixthNumber One album, with two Number One hits in Yes And?
and We Cant Be Friends (Wait for Your Love.
Did I dream the whole thing?
Katia Temkin*
she asks right off in Twilight Zone, the first of the new tracks.
Was I just a nightmare?
Its not that I miss you, I dont, Grande sings.
Sometimes I just cant believe you happened.
Why do I still protect you?
Pretend these songs arent about you?
she asks in Twilight Zone.
Hope this might be the last one, because Im not fooling anyone.
Its written and directed by Grande herself with Christian Breslauer.
Like the video, it takes off from Michel Gondrys 2004Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Peaches gets her memories of lost love erased at the Brighter Days Inc. clinic.
But for her, that doesnt turn out to be the magic solution she was hoping for.
As Ariana admits in Hampstead, I would rather feel everything than nothing.
I dont remember too much of the last year, she sings in Hampstead.
(Probably not the only person youve heard say this lately.)
Im still the same but only entirely different/And my lovers just some lines in some songs.
Letting go is harder work than it seems, even when Grandes turning her pain into music.
But thats what makes these songs like the rest ofEternal Sunshinereach so deep.
