Sabrina Carpenter is so horny, she’s can’t hide it.
The former Disney starlet has splashed onto the pop music scene with a zeal for catchy hooks with her song “Nonsense” and the flirty summer jam with unserious rhymes “Espresso.” “That’s that me espresso” anyone?
But before her arrival as one of the emerging pop girls this summer alongside Chappell Roan and Charli XCX, the 25-year-old singer has been in the Disney machine for most of her life. Starring in the “Boy Meets World” spinoff “Girl Meets World,” Carpenter straddled the actor/singer line, releasing four albums under Disney’s label Hollywood Records.
It wasn’t until her fifth studio album, “Emails I Can’t Send,” released through Island Records, that Carpenter shed her child star persona and began to lean into a more mature, sex-positive one instead. This version of Carpenter’s music is apparent in the viral song “Nonsense.” Carpenter sings about her paramour’s love making her talk nonsense, leading to a sexy play on words with haiku-type outros.
As the singer bopped around city to city on her own tour and eventually Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, she would tailor each outro to a new city. I was at Carpenter’s New York City show at the Terminal 5 venue last year when she mouthed conspiratorially to the crowd, “New York, tomorrow is my birthday. I want d**k, please.”
Carpenter’s new album, “Short N’ Sweet,” which is tracking to secure the singer’s first No. 1 album on the Billboard charts, shows us that similar tongue-in-cheek wit with its raunchy, sexed-up lyrics. Carpenter has completely traded her Disney image for a sexually liberated and empowered persona.
Here’s how Carpenter has managed to bite a reportedly sexless Gen-Z with the horny bug through her blissful, comical summer jams:
Carpenter winks at the Bard
Sampling the late ‘90s R&B song “Into You” by Tamia and with hints of “Human Nature” by Michael Jackson, Carpenter hits all the simmering, nostalgic sweet spots in “Bed Chem.” With pop producers like Ian Kirkpatrick, John Smith and songwriters like Julia Michaels and Amy Allen assisting on the track, Carpenter glides through “Bed Chem” like it’s suggestive spoken word.
Breaking down the lyrics, Carpenter pulls no punches when she’s singing about her lover – possibly referencing her current boyfriend, Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan. She sets the raunchy tone from the start, not so subtly singing, “manifest[ing] that you’re oversized.”
She goes into detail about the various positions, singing “I bеt we’d have really good bеd chem/How you pick me up, pull ’em down, turn me ’round.”
And she continues to voice her sexual appetite: “Are you free next week?/I bet we’d have really good.”
But her suggestiveness hits its heights when she sings:
Come right on me,
I mean camaraderie,
Said you’re not in my timezone, but you wanna be
Where art thou? Why not uponeth me?