Ariana Grande's Best Yet, Eternal Sunshine Deluxe Tracks Ranked

A year after Ariana Grande’s release of eternal sunshine, Arianators were graced with eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead. Accompanied with a short film, Grande explores her intimate world built on memories of the past, growing up and growing old. Each of the deluxe tracks along with the short film tells a different story of family, love, loss, and everything in between. Metaphorical alien abductions, houses up in flames, being brought back to life like Frankenstein – eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead is Grande’s best work yet. 

1. “Hampstead”

The closing act of the short film, “Hampstead,” is one of Grande’s most vocally strong songs yet, which for Grande, she has a lot of her own work to compete with. “Hampstead” supposedly tells the story of finding love after her divorce when filming Wicked abroad. With a chorus so jarringly moving, it only makes sense for Grande to come back to life in the short film in a Frankenstein-esque way. “Hampstead” is emotional, provocative, and passionate.

2. “twilight zone” 

Fan favorite “twilight zone” explores the uneasy, gray feeling of being in the in-between. Moved on but still sitting at the same table, still revisiting memories in disbelief that any of it happened in the first place. “twilight zone” sets the scene of a fire-filled neighborhood where Grande’s home from the “we can't be friends (wait for your love)” music video lives. Chaos ensues and soon after follows Grande’s alien abduction – “twilight zone” is the perfect soundtrack for the prelude to such an event. 

3. “intro (end of the world) [extended]”

The shortened version of “intro (end of the world) [extended]” accompanied the first version of eternal sunshine and was extremely underrated – the extended version further proves that point. Possibly addressing public scrutiny that Grande faced amid her divorce and new relationship, she sings of becoming the “bad guy” despite what the true story might be, her truth. 

4. “past life” 

While not shown off in the short film, “past life” is fun and freeing. Showing us how unserious and easy it can be to move on, Grande sings about how every past love can be left in a different life. The most different production-wise in comparison to the rest of the deluxe tracks, “past life” can relate to us all. 

5. “warm”

“warm” is clever and sweet, a true pop masterpiece. Showcasing Grande’s fun personality and sense of independence, “warm” will probably be one of the songs of the summer. 

6. “dandelion” 

“dandelion” is the most sexual of all the deluxe tracks with the most unique intro. With a jazz flair and clever innuendos, “dandelion” is due a poppy performance – and that it gets in the short film Grande released. 

eternal sunshine deluxe showed fans that Grande can still do it all and that there’s always brighter days ahead.