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The Sabrina Carpenter Effect September 04, 2024
What is Sabrina Carpenter, and why is she suddenly so popular? In our chauvinist past, women singers were automatically compared to other women singers, and this is worth reprising at a moment when the world is dominated by one of them. Carpenter sup...
The Growing Gender Divide, Three Minutes at a Time September 02, 2024
My friends gave me a bit of grief for the headline of one of my recent articles: “The ‘Espresso’ Theory of Gender Relations.” The title, admittedly, was a bit heady for a story about a catchy song full of beverage-related puns. Was I overintellectual...
Sabrina Carpenter’s Funny, Feisty “Short n’ Sweet” August 29, 2024
As incubators of pop stardom go, the Disney corporation has, rather unexpectedly, outlasted around two decades of dramatic shifts in the music industry. While “The Mickey Mouse Club”—a show that helped prepare pop singers such as Britney Spears, Just...
Sabrina Carpenter, Poet Laureate of Sex August 27, 2024
There are three certified plateaus of Sabrina Carpenter consciousness, according to most gurus of pop-girl-ology.The level of Sabrina sentience held by most adults perceives this blond ball of radiance to have materialized out of the air this April w...
Welcome to the Hannah Montana Generation of Music July 09, 2024
When Sabrina Carpenter was six, she watched Disney’s Hannah Montana and realized exactly who she wanted to be.“I remember…watching the pilot and being like ‘I want to do that. I want to sing, and I want to act, and I want to dance. I want to do all t...
Sabrina Carpenter Is America’s Newest Pop Superstar July 01, 2024
In the summer of 1982, a rocker from Indiana was finally breaking on the charts after years of trying anything for a hit. Born John Mellencamp, he marketed himself, reluctantly, under his manager’s preferred sobriquet, John Cougar. After about three ...
That’s That Sabrina Carpenter Espresso June 21, 2024
Less than 24 hours ago, Sabrina Carpenter made her Coachella debut. Now she’s feeling a bit hungover. “Not a literal hangover,” she says, “but just, like, an energy hangover.” Working late ’cause you’re a singer—as she purrs on “Espresso,” a top cont...
The History Lesson Buried Beneath the Song of the Summer June 07, 2024
It’s June, school’s out (or almost), and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is everywhere. Since its release in April, it has become a Top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and outside the U.S., it’s already the biggest song in the world, including in the ...
