Sabrina Carpenter’s new album “Short n’ Sweet” was released on August 23, right as school was starting.
Singles “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” both became candidates for Song of the Summer and received thousands of streams before she released the full album.
Her single “Espresso” is currently her top-streamed song on Spotify, with 1,247,388,179 global streams, and the number is growing by the minute.
Carpenter has also gained attention for her music videos, with the videos for “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” and the opener on the album, “Taste,” featuring stars such as Barry Keoghan and Jenna Ortega.
She’s also becoming well known for working with Jack Antonoff, a producer who has worked with Taylor Swift (who Carpenter is friends with) on several of her albums.
Antonoff has been very complimentary of Carpenter’s work on her new album, which he helped produce. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Antonoff spoke about her single “Please Please Please.”
“The little vocal runs she does are so bizarre and unique — they’re doing this really odd, classic, almost yodel-y country thing. She’s becoming one of the biggest young pop stars, and that song is such a statement of expressing yourself, not just lyrically, but sonically,” he said.
Carpenter has become well known for her love of the aesthetic of the 50’s and 60’s, saying “I love the faces of the ’60s and ’90s — old Hollywood, flirty and fun,” in her interview with “Variety” about the new album.
She’s also become well-known for her scandalous lyrics and upbeat pop songs, with a lot of her music gaining popularity on social media apps like TikTok and Instagram.
The album is definitely catchy, with my favorites being “Juno” and “Sharpest Tool.”
I love the energy and danceability of “Juno,” which is based on the 2007 movie starring Elliot Page.
The chorus of “Sharpest Tool” is so catchy, and I love that the last word of each line is the same word that starts the next one. It’s such a cool and clever format.
In short, I think it’s a very good album in terms of both vocals and lyrics, and Sabrina Carpenter is a really impressive artist.
