Ariana Grande is back on the road. On June 6 at Oakland Arena, she opened her Ariana Grande “Eternal Sunshine” tour, her first full concert run since 2019 and her first live show of any kind since 2024, according to NME. The nearly two dozen-song set leaned into her 2024 album Eternal Sunshine while pulling from across her catalog, with multiple outlets noting that the show marked live debuts for a number of recent tracks.
Variety Music, which was on hand, has the opening night setlist: she kicked off with “Yes, And?” and “Positions,” then moved through “The Boy Is Mine,” the intimate looping-station title track “Eternal Sunshine,” older smashes such as “Thank U, Next,” “7 Rings,” “Break Free,” “Dangerous Woman,” and “Into You,” and ended with “Supernatural.” The LA Times review adds that she premiered her new single “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” from the forthcoming album Petal, telling the crowd the song was only a week old. Consequence and Stereogum both highlighted live debuts from Eternal Sunshine and recent releases, underscoring how much material she had never performed on tour.
What the Setlist Reveals
Setlist reports from Oakland show Grande dividing the show into roughly five or six thematic acts loosely inspired by the Michel Gondry film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with video interludes about memory erasure and a younger version of herself. The production dialed up her theatrical side: for “The Boy Is Mine,” she wore a cat mask and wielded a whip while the band pushed the groove toward nü-metal, as the LA Times described it, and “Imperfect for You” was staged as a bedroom jam with her guitarist.
Critics emphasized that her vocal control remains the centerpiece. Variety’s review notes the precision in her high, fluttery register and Broadway-belt midrange, while the LA Times observes that even in a run of high-tempo hits—“One Last Time,” “Rain on Me,” “Break Free”—she found pockets of tenderness. She closed by rising above the crowd in a harness during “Supernatural,” then disappeared through a door in a suspended structure, a classic pop-theater exit.
Notably, NME points out that no songs from 2018’s Sweetener appeared on opening night, even as she revisited deep cuts like “Honeymoon Avenue.” The tour is expected to run through early September, with a 10-show London O2 residency in August and September.
Why SoCal Fans Should Circle June
For Southern California, the headline is clear: Grande returns to Los Angeles in mid-June. She is scheduled to play Crypto.com Arena on June 13 and 14 and Kia Forum on June 17. These will be among the earliest chances to see the fully realized production after its Oakland debut, and local fans who have followed her transition into film and Broadway will get a live snapshot of where she stands artistically between Eternal Sunshine and Petal.
Editorially, the show’s structure suggests Grande is treating this run as a capstone tour rather than a standard album cycle. The LA Times quotes her earlier remark that this outing might be her “last hurrah,” and the Oakland setlist—spanning early-career deep cuts, peak streaming-era hits, and a brand-new single—reads like a career-spanning statement. The absence of Wicked material, despite her high-profile role as Glinda, also signals that she wants this tour to stay anchored in her pop catalog rather than leaning on her film work.
What’s next? The tour continues through early September, with European dates and the O2 residency filling the late summer. Grande also has Petal arriving soon; she has described it as being “full of life and growing through the cracks of something cold and hard and challenging,” per NME. Fans in Los Angeles will get a front-row seat to how those new songs sit alongside the Eternal Sunshine material—and whether the set evolves as the tour moves deeper into 2026.
Last updated June 07, 2026.
Sources: NME, Variety Music, LA Times Music, Pitchfork News, Consequence, Stereogum
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