Sabrina Carpenter woke up and dream-came-trued it for us when she revealed that her sixth studio album, Short n’ Sweet, will be out before the summer’s end.
“Short n’ Sweet MY NEW ALBUM IS COMING OUT AUGUST 23rd!!!!💋 this project is quite special to me and i hope it’ll be something special to you too,” she wrote on Instagram on June 3. “You can preorder it now!”
Not only that, the pop star also teased that fans could expect a surprise much sooner than the August 23 release date. (It turned out to be the album’s second single, “Please Please Please.”) And on July 9, she announced a multi-city tour, as well as the album’s 12-song track list.
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Carpenter has already been dominating the internet and airwaves with her bouncy earworm “Espresso,” and we’re betting that Short n’ Sweet will be full of bops. Here’s everything we know about the new album.
Short n’ Sweet arrives on August 23.
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Fans knew something was up on June 2, the day before Carpenter announced the new album, when the singer posted a super-mysterious video on Instagram. In the clip, Carpenter rocked a body-hugging sky-blue bodysuit as she walked up to the camera and planted a cherry-colored kiss on the screen.
The clip, it turns out, was a nod to the Short n’ Sweet album cover, which features the singer posing in front of a blue backdrop, peering over her shoulder, with a stark kissy mark on her back.
Carpenter revealed the album cover and release date in her excited June 3 post, in which she wrote, “MY NEW ALBUM IS COMING OUT AUGUST 23rd!!!!💋 this project is quite special to me and i hope it’ll be something special to you too.”
Sounds of Summer
The track list features 12 songs, including “Espresso” and “Please Please Please.”
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Carpenter shared the track list for the new album by way of a vintage-style video on Instagram, which she captioned, “short n’ sweet august 23rd!!!! claim your track n tell yer friends!!!!”
Here’s the full track list:
- Taste
- Please Please Please
- Good Graces
- Sharpest Tool
- Coincidence
- Bed Chem
- Espresso
- Dumb & Poetic
- Slim Pickins
- Juno
- Lie to Girls
- Don’t Smile
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When Carpenter released her world-dominating hit “Espresso” in April, she tried to pass it off as a bonus treat for fans. “Just wanted to put out a little song before Coachella,” she casually wrote on Instagram.
But it turned out the highly quotable track was actually the first single from the album. It was followed by “Please Please Please,” which became her first chart-topper in the United States, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in June.
This album will mark a shift in Carpenter’s sound.
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With “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” already out, it seems fair to assume the new album will mark something of a shift in style for the singer.
In fact, when she sat for an interview with Cosmopolitan in March, the Girl Meets World alum talked about the process behind making her new album. In reference to her fifth studio album, 2022’s Emails I Can’t Send, she said, “Well, I feel so grateful that I’ve been able to tour an album that I really care about for almost two years and that my fans have given it a life longer than I ever could have asked for. I put two and a half years into making this album, and it’s a shitty feeling when you put so much time into something and people want something new in two months. So I’m trying to really take this experience in before moving on to the next thing.”
However, she then added: “But I’ve been working on the next thing for a minute. I’m starting to feel like I’ve outgrown the songs I’m singing, which is always an exciting feeling, because I think that means the next chapter is right around the corner.”
Meanwhile, on her website, the new release was teased with a description that reads: “Short n’ Sweet showcases the scintillating spirit of Sabrina Carpenter, the pocket-sized pop star with a larger-than-life artistic presence. With a gold album and multiple platinum singles under her belt, it’s no wonder that ‘Espresso,’ the debut single from the forthcoming album, has it all: lyrics that make you giggle and blush and songwriting that makes you wish you’d thought of it first.”
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Yes, the title is partly a reference to her height.
Carpenter, who stands four foot eleven, has never tried to hide the fact that she’s not tall. In fact, in her Cosmo interview, she talked about her stint as an opener on Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, saying, “And it’s been a very tall order being on a stage that big because—and this is not even to sound like a pick-me, like when girls are like, ‘I’m so small, I can’t reach the top shelf’—I’m literally five feet tall. So sometimes when I’m on that stage, it feels so huge that I just have to be larger than life in some capacity.”
Furthermore, as part of the promotion for the new LP, Carpenter had billboards put up across the country that featured humorous tweets about her height, like one that read, “When I say I hate short people, Sabrina Carpenter is NEVER included.”
Will there be a coinciding tour?
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The singer is supporting the new album with the Short n’ Sweet Tour, which will travel to cities across the United States later this year, from September through November, after a stop in August at San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival. Openers include Amaarae, Griff, and Declan McKenna. When tickets went on sale in June, they quickly sold out.
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Carpenter expressed her gratitude in an Instagram post, writing: “And just like that you guys sold out the entire short n’ sweet tour, espresso went #1 at pop radio andddddd i slid down this slide :’) thank you all so so much!!! i can’t wait to see you on the road.”
Just last year, when Carpenter was opening for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, she seemed eager to tour behind her next album. “I feel so lucky that I get to watch Taylor perform every time,” she told Cosmopolitan. “It makes me want to tour the world again, which is a good feeling.”
