Ariana Grande fans who are looking for more material from the singer since the release of Positions in October can head to Netflix later this month.
The streamer is set to release a concert movie of the singer’s Sweetener world tour in 2019, called Excuse Me, I Love You, on Dec. 21, Grande announced on her Twitter on Wednesday. “dec 21st, a year after closing, the sweetener world tour is coming home to u,” she wrote.
Directed by Paul Dugdale (Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour), the film is produced by Simon Fisher, Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan and executive producers include Grande, Scooter Braun, Allison Kaye, Scott Manson, Jesse Ignjatovic and Evan Prager. Ray Rock & James Shin and Paul Dugdale are co-executive producers.
The tour, featuring hit songs including “No Tears Left to Cry,” “God Is a Woman” and “Breathin,” comprised 68 shows in North American and 29 in Europe between March 18 and Dec. 22, 2019. In all, the tour brought in $146.4 million with 1.3 million tickets sold, Billboard reported in January.
Grande teased the announcement on Tuesday after posting three stills from the Sweetener world tour and tagging Netflix on Twitter. Netflix’s official account replied by quoting her Sweetener song “R.E.M.,” writing, “Excuse me, I love you.”
Released in 2018, the Sweetener album, Grande’s fourth, debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart and three singles from the album — “No Tears Left to Cry,” “God Is a Woman” and “Breathin” — all made the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Sweetener won best pop vocal album at the 2019 Grammys.
Dec. 10, 11:06 a.m. Updated with production credits.
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