She’s an Oscar-nominated actor now, so of course Ariana Grande is going to turn her album into a movie. Grande dropped the 26-minute Brighter Days Ahead short film to go with the deluxe version of Eternal Sunshine of the same name. In the film, we meet Grande as an elderly Peaches from the “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” video. This time, she’s back at Brighter Days, Inc., where she got her memory of her ex-boyfriend wiped, to watch some of the memories she saved one last time. Set to Eternal Sunshine songs, obviously. Spoilers ahead — as much as there can be spoilers for a music video.
The first memory is some sweet footage Peaches’s childhood, accompanied by “Intro (End of the World).” (Per the credits, this is actual childhood footage from Grande.) In the second, Peaches watches herself perform, first a stripped-back take of “Eternal Sunshine,” then deluxe track “Dandelion.” The third takes us back to the house from the “We Can’t Be Friends” video, now flooded amid a tragedy going on outside. That’s set to “Twilight Zone” and “Supernatural” and ends with Peaches … being abducted by a UFO? Unclear how she’d have memories after that, but she does have one more — of her doctor father Frankenstein-ing her back together as the seemingly Ethan Slater–inspired “Hampstead” plays.
And that’s our heroine’s happy ending! It’s probably time for Grande to head back to Oz soon anyway, right?
