Ariana Grande’s Dad Ed Butera Makes Heartfelt Cameo In ‘Brighter Days Ahead’ Short Film

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00:00That's Ariana Grande singing alongside her dad playing the piano in her latest project.

00:18The pop star released the long-awaited Eternal Sunshine Deluxe Brighter Days Ahead album

00:22on Friday, and along with it a short film a little over 26 minutes long, full of iconic

00:27and tear-jerking moments.

00:29In the film, she reprises her role of Peaches, which she played in her We Can't Be Friends

00:33and The Boy Is My Music videos.

00:36According to the YouTube description for the short film, 70 years have passed, Peaches

00:41is elderly, and back at the Brighter Days clinic where she erased past memories and

00:46preserved some of the good ones.

00:48Okay, it says here you have four memories left.

00:52Which one would you like to watch?

01:23Now playing memory one.

01:26The first memory includes a bunch of sentimental videos of Ariana as a young child, her parents

01:31Joan Grande and Ed Butera dancing, her beloved 99-year-old Nona as well, young Ari is seen

01:38in the clips playfully putting makeup on her mom in one, playing on the beach in another,

01:43and with her dad and brother Frankie Grande as her opening song, intro, End of the World,

01:49plays.

01:50Let's see if we can learn what happens to each memory after she's watched them.

02:02Her second quote-unquote memory is of a new performance of her song Eternal Sunshine,

02:07which she sings with the help of a looping machine, which she has used in the past in

02:12a live performance of Positions.

02:14During the performance, Ari is rocking a long ponytail similar to the one that she has become

02:18synonymous with over the years.

02:20Ari then goes on to sing one of the new tracks from the deluxe album titled Dandelion.

02:24The elderly Peaches watches on, dancing from her wheelchair, as videos seemingly of fans

02:29at concerts also play around her.

02:31For her third memory, Ari's character finds herself first in the ruins of an old home

02:36and neighborhood destroyed in a plane crash, her song Supernatural and one of the new songs

02:41called Twilight Zone play before she is lifted into an alien spacecraft.

02:45For her final memory, we see Ari's father Ed Butera playing the character of Dr. Peach's

02:50dad, who we learn from the description, is the Brighter Days Inc. founder and doctor.

02:55In this memory, he's trying to put together his torn-apart daughter, and in the end, it's

03:00music that her dad plays that wakes her up.

03:02The memory ends with the two sitting at a piano, with Ari singing her new song Hampstead

03:07as Ed plays.

03:08At the end of the short film, there are also a few more clips of young Ariana.

03:39Memory 4 destroyed.

03:43Your session is now complete.