Ariana Grande is giving us a glimpse at her future—and looking out again at her previous.

The musician and Depraved star simply dropped each a deluxe version of her album Everlasting Sunshine and a 26-minute-long quick movie referred to as Brighter Days Forward; the movie continues the storyline of her “We Cannot Be Associates (Watch for Your Love)” music video, which was impressed by the beloved 2000s film Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts. The quick movie opens with Grande’s character Peaches— an aged-up Grande, full with lengthy, graying blonde hair that flows down her again as a substitute of in her signature ponytail, a listening to assist, and wrinkles—being prepped to revisit her final remaining recollections.

As we watch, the older model of Peaches watches essentially the most valuable and significant moments of her life, together with a montage of Grande’s IRL dad and mom and grandparents dancing and clips of herself as a bit child.(Belief me, you would possibly need to watch this with just a few tissues close by.) Grande-as-Peaches wears her hair pulled midway up and again, pinned with a handful of flower pins. Her palms are wrinkled, although she’s nonetheless carrying her go-to French manicure, which has been a mainstay in her routine for years. Her hand tattoos, most notably the fingertip designs, are current and accounted for, although they’ve light with time. Her poppy tattoo, on the sting of 1 hand, nonetheless seems to be nice although! (The particular results make-up and prosthetics have been executed by award-winning artist Justin Raleigh.) All through the quick movie, Grande performs just a few songs from the album whereas Peaches watches—in her ponytail, no much less—and walks by means of the wreckage of the life she left behind earlier than entering into her future.

Brighter Days Forward, just like the Everlasting Sunshine album and the video for “We Cannot Be Associates”, is a meditation about how the joyful and painful moments of life can coexist, serving to you turn out to be the particular person you are meant to be. This principle reveals on Grande-as-Peaches’s face, which is etched with the traces and recollections. In 2023, Grande received emotional when speaking about her use of injectables and why she give up utilizing them, telling Vogue that she wasn’t essentially swearing them off eternally, however was blissful together with her resolution within the second. “I do know for me, I used to be similar to, oh — I need to see my well-earned cry traces and smile traces. I hope my smile traces get deeper and deeper and I snicker an increasing number of. And I simply suppose ageing … it may be such a lovely factor.”