She Waited 7 Years to Sing It — and TikTok Couldn't Handle "One Last Time" Live
Ariana Grande opened the Eternal Sunshine Tour in Oakland on June 6, performing "One Last Time" live for the first time in seven years. Here's why TikTok fell apart over it — and what else went down on opening night.
Ariana Grande opened the Eternal Sunshine Tour in Oakland on June 6, 2026 — her first concert since December 2019. When she got to song 13 on the setlist, the arena went quiet before it absolutely fell apart.
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What actually happened onstage
The Eternal Sunshine Tour opened at Oakland Arena to roughly 17,000–20,000 fans who had been waiting through seven years of Positions, Eternal Sunshine, an Oscar nomination for Wicked, and a highly publicized divorce.1 The 23-song set is built around a loose narrative inspired by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — different eras of Grande appear as patients at a memory-erasure clinic, each hooked up to machines trying to delete them.
"One Last Time" lands at slot 13, deep in Act III. In a between-set video, one of those clinic patients is wearing Grande's One Love Manchester outfit. The implication is clear: this song belongs to the same memory that the show keeps trying and failing to erase. Then she steps out and sings it.2
Rolling Stone called it "one of the most uplifting and emotional moments of the entire show" as thousands of voices sang the chorus back to her.2 It was also "One Last Time"'s first live performance in seven years — a detail that surfaced across every TikTok and reaction thread within hours of the show ending.
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Why this moment went so hard on TikTok
The song carries weight it wasn't born with. "One Last Time" was on My Everything (2014) when it was a breakup ballad. After the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017, Grande performed it at the One Love Manchester benefit concert, and the song became something else entirely — a goodbye to the 22 people who died at her Dangerous Woman show, and a promise to keep going.
That context is exactly why clips of Friday's performance spread so fast. Comments on every post orbited around the same realizations: that she hadn't played it in seven years, that the Manchester outfit in the video was intentional, and that hearing 17,000 people carry the chorus while Grande just stood there and let them was almost too much to watch.
The TikTok posted by @tomasmier pulled 29,100 likes within hours. Other clips from the same show — a live loop-station rendition of "Eternal Sunshine," the live debut of new single "Hate That I Made You Love Me," and the finale where Grande was physically lifted off the stage — also went wide, but "One Last Time" was the one that made people cry first.
The full setlist, for context
Variety published the confirmed opening-night setlist.3 The 23 tracks across five acts include:
- Act I: Yes, And? · The Boy Is Mine · Dandelion · Eternal Sunshine · Positions
- Act II: Just Like Magic · Thank U, Next · 7 Rings · Imperfect For You · Warm · Safety Net
- Act III: One Last Time · Rain on Me · Break Free · Twilight Zone · Past Life · Dangerous Woman
- Act IV: Honeymoon Avenue · Hampstead · Into You · Hate That I Made You Love Me
- Act V: We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love) · Supernatural
A few absences are notable. Sweetener is entirely missing — no "God Is a Woman," no "Breathin." Grande told fans she dropped several Positions tracks too, calling out the "this is not what we want" energy she'd picked up from segments of her own fanbase.2 What's there instead: every single deluxe track from Brighter Days Ahead, including the first-ever live performance of "Past Life."
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One more thing worth flagging
Grande has said this tour might be her last for "a long, long, long, long, long time." She told Amy Poehler on her Good Hang podcast that she's doing it because it "might not happen again" — framing it as a final-for-now gesture rather than the launch of a new touring era.1
The tour runs 41 dates through September 2026. A new album, Petal, arrives July 31 — midway through the run. LA Times reviewed opening night and noted Grande's set felt like that of an artist "who didn't have to tour" but chose to anyway.4
If the first night is any read on the rest, the clips are going to keep coming.
Next shows: Oakland Arena through June 9, then Los Angeles (June 13–17) and continuing across North America.
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