Ariana Grande — One Last Time

An eleven-year-old cut from My Everything is broadly present on the global charts today, appearing on 71 country and platform lists after a month away. The track was the fifth and final single from Grande's 2014 sophomore album, a synth-driven Europop confection built by Savan Kotecha and David Guetta collaborators, and it has always occupied a specific place in her catalog — the closest she came to full-on EDM before pivoting toward the R&B minimalism of later records. Lyrically it's a confession of infidelity, as Genius notes, which gives its glossy chorus an undercurrent of guilt that has kept it durable on breakup and reconciliation edits. Its return after a 32-day absence is the movement worth noting.