Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet is finally here, and so is the vicious video for her latest single, “Taste,” which also stars Jenna Ortega.
The clip finds Carpenter and Ortega feuding over a boy and coming up with increasingly gruesome (and, frankly, hilarious) ways to murder each other. There are knives and shotguns, voodoo dolls, chainsaws, and even excessive shocks from a defibrillator. Despite the maniacal violence, the clip ends with Carpenter and Ortega deciding it’s probably best to put aside their differences and find common ground: Actually, it was the boyfriend who sucked.
Carpenter teased the clip earlier this week, sharing a short clip of her perusing a selection of knives and other sharp objects before selecting her weapon of choice. She then marches into a mansion and barges in on Ortega and a lover in the middle of a shower, in a scene that recalls the famous stabbing in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
“Taste” marks the third single off Short n’ Sweet, following Carpenter’s two summer smash hits, “Espresso” and “Please Please Please.” The eagerly-anticipated album finally arrived today, Aug. 23: It’s Carpenter’s sixth LP, following 2022’s Emails I Can’t Send, and it features songwriting and production contributions from Jack Antonoff, Julia Michaels, Amy Allen, John Ryan, Julian Bunetta, and Ian Kirkpatrick.
In an interview with Rolling Stone earlier this year, Carpenter said Short n’ Sweet contained some of her most honest songwriting to date, and spoke about why she felt compelled to be so open with her audience.
“I hope they find whatever they need to guide them through their life through my mistakes,” Carpenter said. “Because I think the more open I am with my experiences, the more that other people are like, ‘Oh, maybe that’s OK that that happened to me. It’s not the end of the world.’”
Carpenter will hit the road next month in support of Short n’ Sweet, with the tour kicking off Sept. 23 at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, and wrapping Nov. 15 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
