One Year of Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine + Brighter Days Ahead (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, this past Friday, just over a year after the release of her 7th studio album, Eternal Sunshine, Ariana Grande released a deluxe version, Brighter Days Ahead. Louie and Russ reflect on how their feelings about the original record have evolved since it first dropped and how the new songs— and the short film she put out alongside them— add to the Eternal Sunshine Universe and era.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louie here just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon All Access episode. |
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| 0:58.4 | your favorite pop stars and do other stuff too. |
| 1:01.8 | This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th. |
| 1:05.1 | Russ, hello. |
| 1:06.9 | Good morning. |
| 1:07.9 | Happy last day of March. |
| 1:09.8 | Hi, Louie. |
| 1:10.5 | Are you feeling that there are indeed brighter days ahead in April? |
| 1:13.9 | I don't know if I do. There's definitely, let me put it this way. I do think there's brighter |
| 1:17.8 | days ahead for me personally and for you. I'm not sure I'm feeling like there's brighter days |
| 1:23.0 | ahead for mankind, but at least some sunshine. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, there's, there are physically brighter days ahead, if not existentially brighter days ahead, maybe. |
| 1:34.3 | Indeed. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.6 | So this morning, we are going to talk about Eternal Sunshine, Brighter Days Ahead. |
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