“Eternal Sunshine,” Ariana Grande’s seventh studio album, is a victory over heartbreak.

In her new album, Ariana Grande weaves tales and recollections from her turbulent recent past with the heartache of the 2004 Jim Carrey film Eternal Sunshine. “Yes, And?” was the opening question of Ariana Grande’s new chapter, which is her seventh studio album and first in almost four years.

In ‘Eternal Sunshine’, Ariana features some of her best, most honest, work yet as we see themes of growth, love, and turmoil against an R&B and pop landscape. In her tumultuous past few years, the artiste makes her audience see right into her times of divorce, new relationship, and a re-coming of age after the Saturn return of her late 20’s.

Grande obviously enjoys playing with the edges of her songwriter’s craft. As she plays up the spectacle of her divorce for all its horror, some of her most shocking and hilarious lines appear. She seems to be calling her marriage a “situationship” (“don’t wanna break up again”), making hints about cheating (“eternal sunshine”), blatantly spreading false information (“true story”), and finally giving us the gorgeous couplet “Your business is yours and mine is mine/Why do you care so much whose **** I ride?”

I must say, the album’s dreamy introduction, “end of the world,” was a great way to begin the album. In her next track, it seems Ariana is fed up of her man and now tells him bye bye. Looks like one triumphant goodbye anthem if you ask me. Alright now down to track 3. Ariana does not want to break up. I’m confused, didn’t she just say bye bye. But then it is a legit feeling where we see how she needs to love, to be loved, and to be conscious of her own toxic threshold. Away from that we have Eternal Sunshine. Before listening to the song, looking at the track name sends me straight to the quote, ‘the is light at the end of the tunnel’. Eternal Sunshine has me feeling like one could just let go in life, fail and then bounce back and succeed. True love is the seventh track. Seven is the number for perfection so perfect love. (smiles). The cool tempo in the track perfectly matches how Ariana goes of in the song and I love it. Track 8 (the boy is mine) sounds so old school. Old school; I mean 90’s old school. Like I could do a two-step dance while listening to it. Let’s move straight to ‘We Can’t Be Friends, (Wait For Your love). Wow, that is some bold statement. How many of you out there can wait for someone’s love. Well seems like Ariana would. And that takes me into the next track. I wish I hated You, track 11. Who do you think she is addressing here? Tell us in the comments below. Now we have imperfect for you. I guess we can see the divorce bit in the last three songs and I wish nobody goes through that phase of life. If you are crying at this point of listening to the album we can only pass a tissue and pat you on the back.

Grande stresses the value of differentiating herself as a person from a pop star, and this more reserved, understated register might be just what she needs to preserve her hard-earned sense of identity. It was a decision that was well thought out.