[2] Setting the tone of the album,[3] the monologue begins by explaining the Saturn cycle, an astrological concept surrounding the planet's revolution around the Earth that takes about 29 years to complete.
[4] Garland says this is the moment when one should "wake up and smell the coffee" (to face the difficulties of life),[5] and she concludes that when Saturn "hits [one] over the head and says 'wake up'", one should begin changes in how they live and reflect on their sense of self.
[note 1] Lisa Stardust and Jake Register, speaking for Today and Vox respectively, posited that as Grande approached her Saturn return and her 30s, she engaged in deep reflections on and continued healing from her past romantic relationships, some of the main themes of Eternal Sunshine.
[14] She had been studying astrology for around 50 years and used her knowledge to build a sizeable, 27,000-subscriber YouTube channel, where she posted videos answering astrology-related questions such as the one about Saturn returns.
[2] Garland told Rolling Stone and BBC News that she did not think much of the video and considered it a spur-of-the-moment upload; she was surprised when Grande's team contacted her son for the rights to the clip, to which he declined to respond.