Ariana Grande offered an update on her highly-anticipated Eternal Sunshine tour while attending the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night.
“I’ve been working on the set list for months now,” she told E! News on the red carpet outside the Barker Hangar in Los Angeles. “It’s in a good place, but we’ll never know until we get into the rehearsals—which are starting very soon—and we put things on their feet if it’ll make sense or not.”
When asked if she could share any details, Grande played it coy. “I want to let it be a surprise,” she said.
The outlet also asked Grande if she feels like she’s a different person while on tour. “I think it’s the same person,” she responded. “I am grateful to work and I’m excited for the tour.”
Grande’s tour kicks off next June with two dates in Oakland, California, before moving to Los Angeles (both the Crypto.com Arena and Kia Forum). The singer will also perform in Austin; Grande’s native Sunrise, Florida, Atlanta, Brooklyn, Boston, and Montreal. She’ll conclude the U.S. run with two nights at Chicago’s United Center on Aug. 3 and 5. The trek will then jump the Atlantic for five nights at London’s O2 Arena.
Similar to 2019’s Sweetener world tour, the newly announced slate of performances will span two albums: Eternal Sunshine and Positions, the R&B opus Grande released in late 2020. “I think that I was buying myself time — I didn’t want to do that,” she told the Zach Sang Show earlier this year, referring to the idea of taking two albums on the road again. “I was like, yeah, and then the album will never happen, and then the tour will never — no, no, no. I’m kidding.”
In November, Grande confirmed she has no plans for another tour in the foreseeable future. “The last 10 or 15 years will look very different to the ones that are coming up,” she said in an interview on Amy Poehler‘s Good Hang podcast. “I don’t want to say anything definitive.”
She continued, “I do know that I’m very excited to do this small tour, but I think it might not happen again for a long, long, long, long, long time. I’m going to give it my all and it’s going to be beautiful. I think that’s why I’m doing it because I’m like, ‘One last hurrah!’”
A couple of months after the tour wraps, the long awaited fourth movie in the Meet the Parents franchise — Focker In-Law — will hit theaters. Grande stars in the film alongside returning cast members Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Blythe Danner, and Teri Polo.
