Ariana Grande has a severe message for her followers after the discharge of Everlasting Sunshine.
“i just wanted to say anyone that is sending hateful messages to the people in my life based on your interpretation of the album is not supporting me and is absolutely doing the polar opposite of what i would ever encourage (and is also entirely misinterpreting the intention behind the music)…” Grande wrote by way of Instagram Story on Saturday, March 9.
“i ask that you please do not,” she continued. “it is not how to support me. it is the opposite. Although this album captures a lot of painful moments, it also is woven together with a through line of deep, sincere love. if you cannot hear that, please listen more closely. thank you.”
Everlasting Sunshine was named partly after the 2004 movie Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts, starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey, whose characters endure a process to completely erase one another from their reminiscence. This imagery is mirrored in her music video for “we can’t be friends (wait for your love),” which stars Evan Peters.
Grande’s studio album, Everlasting Sunshine, dropped on Friday, March 8. In the future earlier than, a supply completely revealed to Us Weekly that the album tells “her side of the story” concerning her romance with Depraved costar Ethan Slater and divorce from Dalton Gomez.
“Ariana thinks these songs will provide a lot of insight for her fans,” the supply instructed Us in regards to the album.
In June 2023, information broke that Grande and Slater, 31, had began courting. A supply confirmed to Us on the time that the pop star and Gomez quietly separated after “having some issues for months.” Grande filed for divorce in September 2023, two years after they tied the knot.
Slater, for his half, remains to be within the technique of divorcing his estranged spouse Lilly Jay, which introduced up questions concerning the timeline of his relationship with Grande. Whereas one supply instructed Us in July 2023 that “Ariana and Dalton split in January and Ethan is separated from his wife,” one other supply claimed, “Ethan sat Lilly down a few days before the news broke about him and Ariana and said that he wanted a divorce. Lilly never saw it coming.”
Grande acknowledged throughout a February look on the “Zach Sang Show” that she was “nervous” in regards to the album’s reception after the discharge of her single, “Yes, And?”
“I feel like we don’t need to go into any specifics, but, of course, there’s like an insatiable frustration, inexplicable, hellish feeling with watching people misunderstand the people you love and you and anything,” Grande stated.
“I’m so nervous because pieces of [the album] touch on things that are real and then pieces of it are also just, like, part of the concept,” she went on. “So, what is that separation? It’s so scary to leave it up to these selective memory people to decipher. It’s scary, but I digress. Too late. The vinyls have been printed.” Grande described Everlasting Sunshine as her most “emotional” album so far.