tickets for next summer's eternal sunshine tour are here ♡ a near 6 years has come and passed since our last night of the sweetener world tour. 2019? what? i simply cannot perceive mother time. she simultaneously feels like yesterday and several life times ago. the last time i was on the road, i was such a different version of myself. i look back on her with so much love, but i'm also deeply grateful for the distance these years have given me. it's allowed me to grow, to heal, to breathe. to lean onto myself more. to focus on other parts of life and artistry. to live life in a quieter way in hampstead. to get to know glinda, and to have glinda vocally train me in ways i didn't know my voice could perform. my relationship to music has shifted. i've shifted, i've grown, i've stumbled and healed. mother earth has been through so much. you have been through so much on our own journeys. what makes time even more special is knowing how much we've all changed together. some of you have been with me since the beginning (wild ♡ shoutout to my tiny elephants), and some of you are brand new here. wherever you are coming from in your own journey, this space was meant for all of us to come together.
i purposely wanted to make sure this tour was the most intimate and special. a lot of my older songs have new meanings for me now. some of them hurt in a different way, some of them feel lighter, some of them i understand more deeply or experience differently than i did before. not to mention this will be the first time we all share eternal sunshine/brighter days ahead live together (!!!) and that's the magic of music. she's a certified shapeshifter, she grows with you, she holds your hand through so many different experiences that are different for everyone. the idea of all of us meeting in the same place, singing the same songs from all these different timelines? whew, literally sobbing already.
one thing's for certain, 7 years can change a lot but it doesn't change how emotional my cancerian ass gets about these things. returning to the stage won't just be Ariana Grande ™ but a more honest ari who has evolved in the best ways possible. this return feels softer, more intentional, more true to where i am now. i don't think i'll ever be able to explain how much gratitude i feel over the excitement and joy i've seen re: the eternal sunshine tour. i know there will be crying, laughter, and i'll 101% lose my shit when i hear my babes (you) singing with me. wildly enough, tour is going to feel like coming home. peaches and i can't wait to see you on the road next year ∞ ☼｡𖦹 ° . ⋆♡
