We meet here Today we mourn the loss of a true pop icon: Sabrina Carpenter, who usually performs the rousing endings at the end of “Nonsense.” The pop phenomenon began her career in 2008. Short and sweet On her world tour in Columbus, Ohio, last night, she had an audience anticipating the cues she would use to close out the song. Last time she was in Ohio, she said, “If he’s young it’s too uncomfortable/If he don’t know this song, you better leave him/I wish I could put the clef in Cleveland.” But this time, the singer has decided to retire.
At the end of “Bullshit,” Carpenter delivered the usual rendition of, “Woke up this morning, thought I’d write a hit pop song/How fast can you get your clothes off? Pop quiz?” Then, as she would normally do for the outro, she began to descend below the stage and feigned a microphone accident with a look of feigned confusion. “We apologize for interrupting our show due to technical difficulties,” reads a graphic on stage.
The series finale was a good performance. When Carpenter gave a great performance, Saturday Night Live“She turned it into: ‘It’s so hard because I said ‘hello’/ My sense of humor is good but I’m not dry/ I just came on SNL for the first time.” And when she stopped by BBC’s Radio 1 Live Lounge, she joked: “I’m American, not British/ So BBC means something different/ This live lounge is so lit because I’m in it/ Right, because I’m right, you get it?”
Her last song was at the Outside Lands concert in San Francisco in August. “My hot album is coming soon/ My heart is beating so hard under my chest/ Outside Lands, it’s like you’re inside me,” she sang, ending the decade on a Shakespearean note.
But the death of the closing track “Nonsense” doesn’t mark the end of Carpenter’s love affair with short sexual phrases. Her new album is full of them. The second verse of the viral hit “Bed Chem” is a perfect example: “Come to me, I mean company/ You said you’re not in my time zone, but you wanna be/ Where are you? Why can’t you be on me?/ Look at it in my mind, let’s make the prophecy come true.”
Carpenter also injected comedy into other parts of her production. Short and sweet At the end of the show, fans received a pre-recorded farewell message. “I hope you had a great night, and drive safe! Thanks for coming on tour. I love singing,” she says in the commercial-like video. “I hope you enjoyed hearing me sing for a long time. Make sure to check out the merchandise table on your way out. There’s a lot of merchandise — or maybe there’s none, maybe it’s sold out. I don’t know, I filmed this months ago.”
She continues: “Thank you so much for coming to the show. I hope you sang your heart out. Just kidding, I know you did. I was there the whole time. I love you. Good night, guys. Don't let the door hit you on your way out. Thanks for coming to the show. I hope you had a great night. Was I being honest?”
