Which Ariana Grande video won Best Pop at the 2025 MTV VMAs?

Ariana Grande’s video Brighter Days Ahead won Best Pop at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. The same project also won Video of the Year and Best Long Form Video, making it one of the ceremony’s defining releases.

Brighter Days Ahead is a 2025 musical science-fiction short film created by Grande and director Christian Breslauer. Grande co-wrote and co-directed it, marking her directorial debut. The film accompanied the deluxe edition of her 2024 album Eternal Sunshine, whose reissue used the same subtitle.

The project is sometimes described simply as a music video because it competed in video-focused VMA categories, but it is substantially longer and more cinematic than a conventional single-song clip. Its connection to Eternal Sunshine also caused some confusion: the VMA recognition went to the titled visual project, not to one of the album’s earlier standalone videos. Grande’s multiple wins made the 2025 ceremony an especially significant night for her visual-album era.