2024-08-30 23:38:26
In the catchy song Espresso, she sang that she is so irresistible to men that they become addicted to her like a strong cup of coffee. Twenty-five-year-old American singer Sabrina Carpenter is one of this year’s pop discoveries. Now she’s released a record trying to draw a line behind her past as a Disney child star.
As the DPA agency writes, the self-confident disco-pop song Espresso has been blaring from ice cream stands, swimming pools and beach parties of college students all summer. The metaphor “it’s me, espresso” sounded everywhere. With these words, Sabrina Carpenter says that because of her, men can not sleep and stay up all night, similar to after drinking strong coffee.
The song became the first American woman to dominate the Billboard 200 chart. In early August, the track surpassed the milestone of one billion plays on the Spotify platform.
“I wrote Espresso at a moment when I felt at the top. And you don’t always have this feeling, so I wanted to keep it for myself,” the author said in the podcast, although she also admitted that she was not dating anyone at the time. “It kind of boosted my self-confidence,” she added.
According to the AP agency, a grammatical error, or rather a neologism, also contributed to the success, when in the catchy refrain, “that’s that me espresso” is sung in English, apparently due to phrasing to a fast dance rhythm. All this, combined with the light dance rhythm popularized by her colleagues Doja Cat and Dua Lipa in recent years, created an attractive mix.
Sabrina Carpenter supported her with a pair of videos: the one for the song Espresso ended at the moment when the singer is arrested by the police.
Sabrina Carpenter (right) got her start on Disney’s Riley in the Big World. | Photo: Disney Channel
The music video for the following single Please Please Please starts right in the prison. In this track, Sabrina Carpenter begs her boyfriend, a brawler, not to embarrass her in public. And again it was a success, thanks to which, for example, Rolling Stone magazine states that Sabrina Carpenter had not one, but two summer hits this year.
The singer now wants to follow up on all this with her sixth studio album called Short n’ Sweet. She published the record combining pop music with elements of dance music, R&B and country last Friday.
According to the British newspaper Guardian, Sabrina Carpenter, along with her age Chappell Roan or slightly older Charli XCX, belongs to a new generation of pop stars who seem more genuine than their predecessors from the last decade.
The American is now followed by over 39 million people on the Instagram social network, and her songs have garnered over three billion plays on Spotify alone, the vast majority of them this year.
According to the DPA agency, it may be even more surprising for some to learn that Sabrina Carpenter has been trying to break through since 2009. At that time, the Pennsylvania native was ten and started uploading cover versions of songs by Christina Aguilera, Adele or Miley Cyrus to YouTube.
As a child, she contributed several songs to various album-type compilations called Disney Fairies: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust. She voiced a character in the animated children’s series Sofia the First. And in 2014, she drew attention to herself for the first time when the Walt Disney Company entrusted her with a role in the teenage series called Riley in the Big World. It was set in the setting of the last year of elementary school and Sabrina Carpenter played the main character’s best friend.
By that time, she had already signed a five-record deal with Hollywood Records, part of the Disney Music Group conglomerate.
She released her first Disney single in 2014 and an album a year later. Since then, her star has risen, but very slowly. Shortly before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the singer made her first appearance on Broadway in New York when she performed in the musical Nasty Nasty Girls, inspired by the film of the same name.
However, only since 2022, when she moved from Disney to Universal Music and gained control of her career, has Sabrina Carpenter been making adult pop music. Taylor Swift, currently the biggest star in the world, took her last year as an opening act for some concerts in Latin America or Australia, thanks to which she was discovered by hundreds of thousands of people.
Others registered Sabrina Carpenter through the tabloid media – first as the one Olivia Rodrigo sings about as her bitch in her hit Driver’s Licence, and then thanks to Sabrina Carpenter’s love affair with the popular Irish actor Barry Keoghan, who appeared in the music video for Please Please Please.
The music video for Please Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter features actor Barry Keoghan. | Video: Island Records
The pair also dominated social media together, for example with a recording of the moment the singer waved to Keoghan from the stage during her show at the Coachella festival in front of tens of thousands of people.
According to the New York Times, Sabrina Carpenter has been successfully reaching young people on the TikTok network for two years. “It adapted its promotional strategy to this platform,” the paper claims.
Now the singer is trying to shake off the image of the former Disney child star, as Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus and recently Olivia Rodrigo managed to do some time ago.
Sabrina Carpenter supported the release of her new album Short n’ Sweet last week with another music video for her single Taste, featuring Wednesday star Jenna Ortega.
According to the AP, the singer pokes fun at her ex-boyfriends on the new record, making double-entendres in tracks like Juno with the air of a strangely sassy innocent blonde Barbie.
She can show sensitivity, for example in the ballad Lie to Girls, but she is strongest in songs combining pop with R&B, such as Good Graces, where in some positions of her voice she reminds stars Mariah Carey or Ariana Grande.
Sabrina Carpenter wants to strengthen the relationship with the listeners live in the near future. He is scheduled to tour the US in the fall, and next year he will head to Great Britain, France or Italy.
Video: Music video for Taste by Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter’s music video for Taste features actress Jenna Ortega. | Video: Island Records