Ariana Grande fans knew her album ‚Eternal Sunshine‘ would be juicy, and the deluxe tracks dig even deeper into her divorce from Dalton Gomez
„Why do I still protect you? Pretend these songs aren’t about you?“
After a year darkened by gossip about her love life, Ariana Grande stepped into the light on her 2024 album Eternal Sunshine. And those sunbeams seemed to illuminate a scandal that nobody knew about. As fans parsed through the heavy lyrics to Grande’s new tracks, a few pointed words stood out among the rest. Namely, it sure sounds like Grande is alleging her ex-husband, Dalton Gomez, was cheating on her when they were married.
A lot about Grande’s two-year marriage to Gomez is unknown. Their relationship was fast-tracked by global lockdown, as they got engaged just months after they started dating in 2020. By the summer of 2021, they were married, but their wedded bliss took a turn in 2023 as they filed for divorce amid rumors that Grande had started dating her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater.
The bulk of Eternal Sunshine is focused on Grande’s recent romantic experiences, whether she’s cooing love songs like “Supernatural” or laying claim to her man in “The Boy Is Mine.” But the cuts that really stand out are the ones that seem to take aim at Gomez. On revelatory tracks like “True Story” and “Eternal Sunshine,” Grande seems to imply that Gomez cheated on her. Even some of the production moments are suspicious, as fans noticed a sonic allusion to Beyoncé’s Lemonade, the album where the pop star famously exposed her husband’s infidelity.
And Grande leaned into what went wrong with Gomez even more descriptively in her new released Brighter Days Ahead bonus track.
Here are the songs that seem to dish out the juiciest tea on what really happened between Grande and Gomez.
The most pointed breakup track on the album, Grande asserts that she’s finally ready to tell the truth about a failed relationship. She details how her ex would play games with her heart, and hid late-night encounters from her: “Turnin’ like a dime, wastin’ all their time / Sneakin’ like a creep in the night.”
Grande also addresses how she handled the fallout from the breakup, as the media painted her as the “villain” during the drama. She tells her ex she’ll take on the “bad girl” role, implying that he must not have been so innocent himself: “I’ll play the villain if you need me to / I know how this goes, yeah.
