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The pop star’s first tour in seven years brought the house down with emotive ballads and clubby bangers delivered with saucy wit
If faced with the choice to erase one’s most painful memories or live with them forever, à la Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, you’d be forgiven for wanting to wipe them away. On the first night of a five-show run in Los Angeles promoting her 2024 album Eternal Sunshine, Ariana Grande riffed on the idea of memory erasure in an emotive, occasionally zany show that illuminated one of her hardest-won revelations: forgetting her most painful experiences isn’t a bargain she is willing to make.
Grande has weathered tragedy and heartbreak in the public eye since her teenage years, including the death of her former boyfriend Mac Miller and the Manchester bombing that killed 22 fans at one of her concerts in 2017. She’s touched on these devastating events on past lyrics, but Eternal Sunshine marks the moment it all caught up to her. She’s spoken about the astrological concept of her Saturn return as making these challenges impossible to deny; Grande joins a long lineage of musicians, from Gwen Stefani to SZA, who have created music in the wake of this stultifying cosmic event, and the conceptually dazzling show’s 23-song setlist leaned heavily on cuts from the album. The show felt especially momentous given that Grande hadn’t been on tour since 2019, wherein she has since starred in two back-to-back Wicked films and judged The Voice.
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Cucurella had spoken out against Chelsea hierarchy
Real Madrid have reached a verbal agreement to sign Marc Cucurella from Chelsea in a package worth up to €60m (£52m).
The Spain left-back, who is preparing to face Cape Verde in the World Cup, threw his future into doubt when he criticised the Chelsea hierarchy during the March international break. Cucurella said the team paid for “inexperience” when thrashed by Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, and he raised misgivings over Enzo Maresca’s departure as head coach.
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AXEL (ANP) - Vele honderden mensen lopen zondagavond mee in een stille tocht voor de slachtoffers van het fatale ongeluk in het Zeeuwse Vogelwaarde. De tocht begon om 19.00 uur in Axel, in de gemeente Terneuzen, met een moment van stilte. De slachtoffers waren leerlingen en begeleiders van een basisschool uit de plaats. Onder de deelnemers aan de stoet zijn burgemeester Franc Weerwind en commissaris van de Koning Hugo de Jonge.
De meeste deelnemers hebben gehoor gegeven aan de oproep van de organisatie om witte kleding te dragen, ziet een ANP-verslaggever. Sommigen, vooral kinderen, hebben een witte ballon bij zich. Ook lopen veel mensen mee met een knuffel, een roos of andere bloemen. Volgens de verslaggever is de sfeer ingetogen.
Donderdag botste een auto op fietsers die op schoolkamp waren. De groep bestond uit veertien kinderen en twee begeleiders. De directeur en drie kinderen van 12 jaar kwamen om.
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