Three minutes, shot in black and white, and almost entirely face-to-camera: Ariana Grande has posted “Hampstead” as a standalone video on YouTube this week.
It’s the closing scene from her short film Brighter Days Ahead, co-directed with Christian Breslauer, and it plays like a quiet afterimage to the song: steady framing, minimal cuts, and a small lift only at the very end.
What makes this upload feel personal is the final beat: a brief appearance from her father, Ed Butera, carried over from the film’s last sequence.
In the context of Brighter Days Ahead, which premiered March 28, 2025, the cameo lands as a memory surfacing, not a twist, and the stripped-back staging lets that moment do the work.
Watch the official video:
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