Sabrina Carpenter's new single Espresso

First contestant for Song Of The Summer

Yeah it's definitely got a summer feel to it.

It's performing well. Entered at 6 in the UK charts and went up to 5 this week, which is good considering all the Taylor songs in the top 20 from everyone streaming her album.

Great song. I also love Chappell Roan's "Good Luck, Babe!". Pop music is BACK!

Is she related to Karen carpenter?

Surprisingly a good song. She might finally have a genuine breakout hit.

R4 funnily enough she’s related to Nancy Cartwright

[quote]Is she related to Karen carpenter?

No, but her father, Jesus, was a carpenter.

She is one of those Disney girls, so, it can't end well.

I liked it and the video, it was cute.

The other song linked upthread, not so much. And the video was horrendous; I'm sure purposely so. Either way, it sucked (the video).

Trying too hard to be the next Ariana Grande.

Is it a challenge to be 5 ft tall?

She can suck dick standing up, r11.

Selena Gomez could have sung this and it would have sounded exactly the same.

I preferred Karen Carpenter's last single: Ipecac!

Espresso yourself!

R10 She seems different to Ariana. If she starts stealing men away from their girlfriends I'll reconsider.

I like the Sabrina Carpenter song a lot, it’s some Great lightweight pop. I dislike like Chappell Roan’s production and Lana-meets-Gaga “I’m a female drag queen” affectations.

[quote]She seems different to Ariana

Ariana can sing, while this one whispers shit.

[quote]Sabrina Carpenter

Another Flop-Tart they can’t stop relentlessly pushing on the public.

Sorry, but the song is unremarkable and this Sabrina Carpenter girl has a paper-thin voice. The video is colourful, fun and cute, but it cannot compensate for the dull, aimless melody and the singer's evident lack of talent.

R13 is right: any other talentless, famous-for-being-famous, interchangeable pop tart could have sung this inconsequential little tune. Selena Gomez, Lana del Rey, Billie Eilish, Halsey... They all mumble in a half-whisper and can't sing live to save their sorry lives.

We had voices then.

Lana can sing live, as can Billie.

I'd love to hear Karen's cover of this.

I don’t care for her breathy whisper “singing”

She’s such a no-talent flop, her record label was trying to beard her up with Miss Shawn Mendes last year, because they were desperate just to get her ANY publicity.

Another pudgy butch girl for openly heterosexual Shawn Mendes.

Social Media is ruining popular songs like this. I’ll hear the hook 100 times before I ever hear the song in its entirety.

I heard she was dating the ugly Irish guy from Saltburn. Can't remember his name.

So record labels are definitely starting to manipulate streaming.

Spotify has been pushing this artist and Charli XCX into everyone’s queues.

I have an AI generated playlist called “On Repeat” that plays my Top songs of the week and both of them are on it and I’ve never even heard these songs.

I let my playlists and AI DJ playlist run at work all day and I can’t believe these singers are in my top songs cause I don’t know or listen to them.

The music industry is such a sham right now.

This actually happened

If you go to the 1 minute mark of her song and the :55 second mark of George Michael’s Fast Love they are similar:

Sabrina can actually sing quite well. She’s been working since she was a kid and did a stint in Mean Girls on Broadway.

I enjoy her more than Chappell Roan, who seems unstable and quite obnoxious.

R20 you're not really paying attention if you think Billie and Lana are interchangeable with Selena Gomez and Sabrina Carpenter.

Billie, in particular, has a very, very unique delivery (that often drives some people crazy) and production. No one sounds like her musically or tonally.

I like her. She's fun.

She currently has the #1 and #2 singles in the UK.

She sounds like mumbling, whispering desperation.

I saw her live in Melbourne as the opening act for Swift's Eras Tour. She sang circles around Swift. Not my usual cup of tea to listen to, but I came away with respect for her. Even if she did look like a slutty My Little Pony.

Sure she can, R22. Sure she can... 🙄

R37 fuck off you glib fuckface

Thank you for your marketing assistance, Mother Carpenter.

Are you utterly insane, R38? She is horribly out of tune in all throughout that performance and the whiny baby voice is so far back in her throat, that it would barely be heard if the microphone weren't amped to the max.

Anyway, why am I bothering? You're clearly a deranged fan.

R40 you have to be comfortably sad to get her. Go back to your brain dead Swift vinyls.

I, too, immediately thought she ripped off George Michael's "Fastlove". Shame on her.