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08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Met Gala: Usher Apologizes To Sabrina Carpenter's Dad
In case you missed it, this year's Met Gala took place on Monday, and Usher was this year's surprise performance for the A-list guests that evening. The 46-year-old singer is currently on tour, and has become renowned for a so-called 'cherry segment' during his live is where Usher picks a female audience member from the crowd and sensually feeds her cherries during his song 'There Goes My Baby.' And Usher had his pick of celebrity women to choose from for the bit at the gala, with everybody from Zendaya to Kylie Jenner in attendance. However, it was singer Sabrina Carpenter who landed the iconic moment, which makes sense considering her reputation for proudly embracing her overt sexuality. This arguably began when Sabrina started a tradition of ad-libbing a brand new — and normally incredibly NSFW — outro to her song 'Nonsense' every night during her Emails I Can't Send tour, which kicked off in 2022. Fun fact: The lyrics she penned for her BBC Live Lounge performance in 2023 ended up being so x-rated that the BBC opted to edit them out of her final the slang definition of 'BBC,' which is commonly used with racial connotations in pornography, Sabrina had sung: 'I'm American, I am not British / So BBC it stands for something different / This live lounge is just so lit because I'm in it.'She then poked fun at the BBC's decision to edit out her outro when she returned to the UK for their Radio 1 Big Weekend festival. This time, she cheekily sang: 'BBC said I should keep it PG / BBC I wish I had it in me / There's a double meaning if you dig deep.' Sabrina continued to lean into her sexuality on her latest album, Short n' Sweet, which was released in August and is full of innuendos. The vibe continued on her accompanying tour, where she is dressed in custom Victoria's Secret lingerie and vintage-style babydoll nightgowns. Also on her tour, Sabrina started a new tradition of teasing different sex positions on stage during her song 'Juno.' This led to the star being the subject of some serious online discourse earlier this year when she demonstrated the so-called Eiffel Tower sex position on stage, which involves one person getting on all fours in the middle of two others. At the time, some social media users criticized the star, calling the position 'inherently degrading" toward women. All of this to say, Sabrina's friends, fans, and, indeed, family members are more than used to seeing the star in sexual situations, and Sabrina previously told Time that it really isn't a big deal to her relatives when they watch her shows. Speaking about the fact that her grandparents were at her sold-out Madison Square Garden show last year, Sabrina said: 'My fans online are like: 'I can't believe she's bending over in front of her grandparents!' I'm like: 'Girl, they are not paying attention to that!' They're just like: 'I can't believe all these people are here.'' Despite this, when a sensual photo of Usher feeding Sabrina cherries at the Met emerged online on Tuesday, there was one family member who admitted to being a little uneasy with the whole thing: Sabrina's dad. Taking to her Instagram account on Wednesday, Sabrina posted a carousel of behind-the-scenes photos from the night, which ended with a screenshot of a text message that she received from her father, David Carpenter. David had simply sent his daughter an X link to the photo of her and Usher, writing underneath it: '? Weird.' Sabrina cropped the screenshot so that followers couldn't see her reply, however, Usher left his response in the comment section of her Instagram post, where he simply wrote: 'Apologies Mr Carpenter 😅🍒' Posting this text from her dad comes shortly after Sabrina opened up about how she navigated releasing a seriously brutal diss track about him cheating on her mom on the title track of her 2022 album, Emails I Can't Send. For reference, Sabrina's parents stayed together despite David's indiscretion, and he has always remained a very big part of Sabrina and her sisters' lives. However, she did not hold back in the song, which includes the lyrics: 'You wanna discuss, ugh, you disgust me,' and 'Don't make me cuss you out / Why'd you let me down? / Don't say sorry now.'She also tells her dad that because of him, she 'can't love right' and finds herself villainizing 'nice guys' because she fears they will cheat on her.'I blame you for / Every worst that I assume,' Sabrina goes on, and in case there was any doubt over who the song is about, she sings: 'When I'm forty-five, someone calls me their wife / And he fucks our lives in one selfish night / Don't think I'll find forgiveness as fast as mom did / And, God, I love you, but you're such a dipshit.''You were all I looked up to / Now I can't even look at you,' Sabrina concludes, before laughing in a sassy outro: 'I mean, as they say in Chicago, 'He had it coming.'' And Vogue asked Sabrina about how her dad reacted to her airing the family's dirty laundry to the entire world in an interview earlier this year. Discussing how the song sees her analyze her own relationships as a direct result of her father, Sabrina told the publication: 'Why do we end up loving the people we love later in life? That song just really made a lot of things make sense for me.'Asked about how her dad learned of the song's existence, she quipped: 'Sure as hell did not play it for him in person.''I sent it to my mother first,' Sabrina explained, before admitting: 'There were definitely feelings involved.' She also remained defiant as she pointed out: 'But you birthed me, so you kind of have to deal with the repercussions.' As always, let me know your thoughts on all of this in the comments below!
Forbes
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Sabrina Carpenter Hits A Special Landmark For The First Time
Sabrina Carpenter's Emails I Can't Send hits 52 weeks on the Official Albums Chart, making it her ... More first release to spend a full year on the U.K. tally. MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - AUGUST 24: EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO BOOK COVERS. Sabrina Carpenter performs onstage during the "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at Foro Sol on August 24, 2023 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Hector Vivas/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management) Sabrina Carpenter proved herself to be a global superstar in 2024 with the release of Short n' Sweet, but her current success didn't come out of nowhere. Before her new project helped vault her into the upper echelon of pop, she was already quietly building a strong catalog and winning over new fans by the day. Now, one of her earlier full-lengths is enjoying a well-deserved moment in the spotlight, and this frame is a particularly important one for the collection overseas. Carpenter's 2022 effort Emails I Can't Send celebrates its fifty-second week on the Official Albums chart in the U.K. The set marks one full year spent on the highly competitive tally, which ranks the most-consumed titles in the country every frame. Emails I Can't Send is the first release in Carpenter's discography to hold on that long. The album only rises two spots this week to No. 68. As Emails I Can't Send hits one year, Carpenter is likely just a few months away from scoring another similar win with her latest drop. Short n' Sweet, which many have called her breakout set, continues to perform incredibly well in the U.K. This week it's still holding strong at No. 2 on the Official Albums chart — a remarkable showing for a project that's been present on this list for 34 weeks. The attention Carpenter is receiving has helped boost Emails I Can't Send on multiple tallies. This frame, while the project climbs slightly on the main U.K. albums list, it actually slips just a bit on the Official Albums Streaming chart, dipping to No. 72. The title has now lived on that ranking for 50 frames, meaning it's almost certain to reach a full year in the next couple of weeks. Emails I Can't Send initially debuted on the Official Albums chart back in July 2022. It opened at No. 76 and promptly disappeared, with no immediate signs that it would return. For nearly two years, the collection was largely absent from the U.K. rankings — until the spring of 2024, when everything changed. Thanks to the excitement around Short n' Sweet's lead single 'Espresso,' fans started revisiting Carpenter's past work. That renewed attention helped Emails I Can't Send reappear — and then, something even more impressive happened. Beginning in June 2024, the title started climbing. Slowly at first, but it soon picked up steam. In March of this year, more than 20 months after its release, Emails I Can't Send finally reached a new peak of No. 40, cracking the top 40 for the first time.
Buzz Feed
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
People Are Calling Out The Seriously Harmful Implications Of A Viral Tweet That Claims Sabrina Carpenter's Eiffel Tower Sex Position Is 'Inherently Degrading' Towards Women
Once again, Sabrina Carpenter is back at the center of Sex Discourse, and the whole thing is honestly getting a little bit exhausting. If you have the pleasure of not knowing what I am talking about, the 25-year-old singer sparked fury from some corners of the internet on Monday when she debuted a brand new sex position during her performance of 'Juno.' But first, a little bit of context. In recent years, Sabrina has undeniably become renowned for the unashamed way that she publicly embraces her sexuality, with her NSFW sense of humor really coming to the forefront during her Emails I Can't Send tour in 2022, when she started to ad-lib a brand new outro to her song 'Nonsense' every night. While these started innocently enough, they eventually became more and more x-rated as Sabrina incorporated the city or state where she was performing in the ' vulgar ' lyrics. If you need an example, she once sang in Singapore: 'Told that boy to sit me down on all fours / I told that boy go faster, now I'm all sore / You hit a little different here, Singapore.' In fact, the lyrics she penned for her BBC Live Lounge performance in 2023 ended up being so NSFW that the BBC ended up editing them out of the final recording. Acknowledging her raunchy sense of humor, Sabrina previously told Cosmopolitan: 'I think people think I'm just obnoxiously horny, when in reality, writing them comes from the ability to not be fearful of your sexuality as opposed to just not being to put it down.' The star retired her 'Nonsense' tradition when she kicked off her Short n' Sweet tour last year, but that definitely doesn't mean that she is shying away from her sexuality. If anything, she's only become more unabashed, and her recent performance at the BRIT Awards in London earlier this month was so eye-popping that almost 1,000 viewers complained to the UK's TV regulator, Ofcom. If you missed it, Sabrina performed her 2024 song 'Bed Chem' at the show, which includes lyrics like: 'I bet we'd have really good bed chem / How you pick me up, pull 'em down, turn me 'round, oh, it just makes sense / How you talk so sweet when you're doing bad things, that's bed chem.' As well as the now-famous line: 'Come right on me, I mean camaraderie.' At the BRITS, Sabrina mimicked the staging and costume used for this song during her concerts, performing in sexy lingerie while writhing around on a bed. When the song came to an end, Sabrina was seen seductively going down on her knees in front of a man dressed as a British soldier. But 'Bed Chem' isn't the only explicit part of Sabrina's Short n' Sweet era, with another one of her album tracks, 'Juno,' asking: 'Wanna try out my fuzzy pink handcuffs?' 'Wanna try out some freaky positions?' she later sings, and during her sexually charged live performances of this lyric, Sabrina teases a different sex position — and this is where the latest discourse has stemmed from. During her Paris show on Monday, Sabrina decided to make a cheeky reference to the city by enlisting two male dancers to demonstrate the so-called Eiffel Tower sex position, which involves one person on all fours in the middle of two others. Sabrina giggled as she jovially took her place between the men, but not everybody on social media was laughing. In fact, the whole thing has sparked a conversation about the way we view a woman's relationship to sex after one viral tweet claimed that the Eiffel Tower position is ' inherently degrading ' towards women. It all started when one Sabrina fan shared a screenshot of the moment to X and wrote: 'maybe, just maybe, she doesn't see sex as something degrading. maybe girls are allowed to see sex as something intimate or dare i say fun and expressive,' only for the other user to quote-tweet them and claim: 'THAT position in particular is inherently degrading. The whole point of it is a woman being used for mens pleasure, there's no way to look at this as a positive thing and it's certainly not 'intimate.'' But many found this narrative damaging, with one person pointing out: 'i am not going to argue about sabrina carpenter being feminist one way or another but i do think it's circling back to harmful when we start saying certain sex positions are 'inherently degrading' for women.' Kevin Mazur /for AEG 'a sex position you consensually partake in & enjoy isn't degrading just bc men are there,' somebody else agreed. 'having two people care about your pleasure *is* intimate even if you add a silly goofy title like 'eiffel tower'. and you don't need two cis men for this position!! this discourse is wild.' 'not to be the Friend Who's Too Woke but i feel like the hate against sabrina carpenter doing campy sex stuff in her music and live shows is largely because a lot of people don't think women should find sex fun,' another viral tweet adds. 'seeing a lot of 'eiffel tower bad because two men using one woman' but what if i'm the one using them. have u ever stopped to consider that,' somebody else quipped. While others were just eager to point out that the main reason that Sabrina chose this particular position was clearly because of its link to Paris, and the whole thing isn't much deeper than that. One wrote: 'god forbid a woman make an eiffel tower joke in paris.' And somebody else tweeted: 'all these think pieces about how she's doing this for the male gaze or how she's taking ownership of her sexuality when in reality she was simply doing a pose called the eiffel tower cause she's in paris. like it's actually not deep at all it was just the obvious joke to make.' Meanwhile, another user concluded: 'Sabrina Carpenter getting fake Eiffel Tower'd at her Paris show is just good physical comedy. It's plain old, good vaudeville/burlesque-y stage direction. It's kinda her thing and it's been so fun to watch! I'd be sad if she stopped doing it.'
Forbes
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Sabrina Carpenter's Album Hits The Top 40 — Years After It Was Released
Sabrina Carpenter kicked off her Short n' Sweet Tour last September, and it's still going, months later. She trekked across America and the U.S., performing all the hits from her latest album, which shares its name with the venture. After a break for the holidays and the Grammys, where she both performed and won several prizes, Carpenter is back on the road. She is spending much of the spring traveling around Europe before adding another leg in North America throughout the fall in the earliest days of March. The pop superstar recently took her Short n' Sweet Tour to England. She has performed in Birmingham, London, and Manchester and has more dates in the country's capital coming up. Fans of the singer-songwriter were so excited for her arrival that they have been consuming not just Short n' Sweet in large numbers, but also the album that preceded it. This week, Emails I Can't Send rises on both U.K.-based charts on which it appears. The full-length, which helped prove that Carpenter was on to something before she became a household name, even manages to soar to a never-before-seen and important peak on one list. Emails I Can't Send rockets from No. 67 to No. 40 on the Official Albums chart. This frame marks the title's first turn as a top 40 smash on the U.K.'s ranking of the most-consumed albums and EPs throughout the nation. Carpenter's fifth full-length reaches that important milestone 47 weeks into its time on the Official Albums chart. Of course, the set has been out for much longer than just those 47 frames, but it has risen and fallen on the tally throughout its lifetime. As it breaks into the top 40 on the Official Albums chart for the first time, Emails I Can't Send also finds room inside that important tier on one more list. Carpenter's previous effort jumps from No. 65 to No. 39 on the Official Albums Streaming ranking. That's not a new all-time high, though it does come close to becoming one, as it once peaked at No. 37. Short n' Sweet is still performing very well, even as the project that came before grows in popularity. The Grammy-winning set is present inside the top two on a pair of lists and settles at No. 14 on both the Official Album Downloads and Official Vinyl Albums charts. It has previously conquered both of those and risen into the top three on the others. In the coming weeks, Carpenter's fortunes may improve again as even more attention is paid to her discography, thanks to her massive sold-out shows.
The Independent
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Sabrina Carpenter's naughty O2 show makes tweens shriek (and their parents blush)
Sabrina Carpenter scurries across the stage of London's O2 in only a towel, unprepared for her show to begin, before disappearing into the wings. Soon after, in a moment that's been spliced, diced and gone viral on social media since the (miniature) pop behemoth's Short n' Sweet tour began in America in September, Carpenter emerges again and opens up her towel to reveal a bejewelled Betty Boop-style bodysuit. Tonight, it's cobalt blue coloured. She's wearing her signature nude-coloured tights, her hair is a platinum blonde blowout. She tries to catch the crystal-covered microphone dangling above her but, at only five feet tall, she can't reach. These mechanical mishaps are part of the Carpenter playbook. Don't be fooled: this Pennsylvania-born singer has meticulously crafted this mammoth production, which celebrates the most successful year of her decade-long career. A graduate of Disney sitcoms, Carpenter began releasing teen bops when she was just 15, before swapping the Disney-owned Hollywood Records for Island and releasing her first grown-up record – Emails I Can't Send – in 2022. By 2023, Carpenter was co-signed by pop's high priestess Taylor Swift, who asked Carpenter to be the support act on her world-conquering Eras tour. Now 25 and winner of two Grammys – for her blockbuster 2024 album Short n' Sweet – she is one of the biggest forces in modern pop. (And she's oddly controversial: her Brit Awards performance last week, in which she feigned pleasuring a Beefeater, drew 825 complaints to Ofcom.) The pomp surrounding tonight's show is a testament to her relatively newfound fame: swarms of girlies have arrived covered in red kiss mark tattoos, wearing an array of Carpenter-style nightwear, slip dresses and golden bouncy wigs. The tour itself feels like an innuendo-filled victory lap. On stage, when the singer eventually locates her mic, the roaring low-slung electric guitar chords of 'Taste' fills the stadium. Afterwards, she sits herself in front of a Grease -style dresser and changes into a sheer babydoll dress and matching garter for 'Good Graces' – a catchy kiss-off to an ex in which she proclaims, 'I won't give a f*** about you'. The audience chants it back. For 'Slim Pickins', a country-influenced ballad from the perspective of a wronged woman, Carpenter lounges on a fur rug alongside a faux-log burner. The scenery looks like a Barbie dreamhouse. The most winning numbers of the night include 'Juno', a frisky track inspired by the 2007 teen pregnancy film of the same name, which sees Carpenter 'arrest' an audience member (and/or celebrity who's been spotted in the crowd) for being 'too hot'. Tonight it's Salma Hayek who is placed under caution and passed a pair of pink fluffy handcuffs as punishment – though I'm not sure if the crowd of 14-year-olds that surround me know who she is. The arena glows crimson for 'Bed Chem' and, as in her Brits performance, Carpenter gyrates on a heart-shaped bed before a sheer curtain comes down and she disappears under a duvet with a male dancer. Parents accompanying minors look a combination of terrified and embarrassed as their screaming daughters zoom in on their iPhones. The set is transformed into a Gatsby party for her newly released song 'Busy Woman', in which Carpenter flexes her muscles and purrs, 'I'm so mature, collected and sensible'. The singer's inclination for dry humour and 'blonde' jokes is endearing. At various points she asks the crowd blunt questions: 'Do you like concerts?; 'You guys like tea here, right?'; 'What's that word… chug?' That last one is her cue to down a beer and play spin-the-bottle to decide her next song: a rogue, boisterous interpretation of 'Come on Eileen'. Carpenter is not an out-of-this-world performer. Sure, her expert vocals and you-can't-look-away stage presence are undeniable, but her dance moves are restricted to modular choreography, Kate Moss-style catwalk struts and the odd high-kick. There are plenty of missed opportunities during dance breaks, too – she doesn't indulge in anything too strenuous, instead spinning around the stage with her hand glued to her microphone. It leaves the night's closing number a tad underwhelming. The peppy, Grammy-winning earworm 'Espresso' sees Carpenter and her troupe of backing dancers stomp down a catwalk, but not much else happens. For such a big hit, I had hoped for more… perhaps Carpenter floating around in a gargantuan espresso cup? I suppose it doesn't matter – the arena leaves high off the caffeinated hit all the same.
