“Please! Please! Please! Play Espresso!” Read a sign in the crowd at Sabrina Carpenter’s Coachella set earlier this year. The singer had just released the now inescapable hit the night prior. Little did we know, the sign was a sneaky little Easter egg for “Please Please Please”, the lead single for Carpenter’s recently announced album out 23 August.
Carpenter’s new era is kicking off with a music video co-starring none other than her biggest hype man, the Academy Award-nominated actor Barry Keoghan. “I’m feeling like I will never pay for another coffee again, and I’m so grateful and excited for people to hear the whole record. It’s so close to me!” wrote Carpenter over email about entering her new era post the success of “Espresso”.
In the video, Carpenter wears everything from Alaïa and Dilara Findikoglu to Alexandre Vauthier Couture and custom Coach (“I always like to heighten fashion and storyline in my videos, it’s playtime for me”) while fabulously and – quite seductively – pleading to her mischievous lover to embarrass her any longer. “Heartbreak is one thing, my ego’s another/I beg you don’t embarrass me, motherfucker,” she sings. One has to wonder, who could this song be about? For those well-versed in the Sabrina Carpenter universe, the singer gets arrested at the end of her “Espresso” music video.
“I ended the last video getting arrested, so naturally I thought it would be satisfying to start the ‘Please Please.
