Sabrina Carpenter is savoring candy success but once more. The diminutive pop star’s large hit “Taste” has entered the Spotify Billions Membership, having tallied greater than 1 billion streams on the platform. It’s Carpenter’s fourth music to realize the feat following fan favourite “Nonsense,” the zeitgeist-defining smash “Espresso,” and the chart-topping hit “Please Please Please.”
“Taste” peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. It’s the opening observe and third single from Carpenter’s 2024 album Brief n’ Candy, which gained the Grammy for Finest Pop Vocal Album this 12 months. Carpenter wrote the music with hit-making songwriters Julia Michaels and Amy Allen plus producers John Ryan and Ian Kirkpatrick. Julian Bunetta can be a producer on the observe, which adopts an upbeat country-tinged pop-rock sound as Carpenter informs her ex’s new lover, “You’ll just have to taste me when he’s kissing you.”
“Taste” can be recognized for its music video, which pairs Carpenter with famous person actress Jenna Ortega in a plot impressed by the Meryl Streep film Demise Turns into Her, with references to different movies like Psycho, Kill Invoice: Quantity 1, and—in a nod to Ortega’s different performing roles—entries from the Scream and Addams Household franchises. The Dave Meyers-directed clip casts Carpenter and Ortega as romantic rivals vying for a similar accomplice, performed by Rohan Campbell. Their battle descends right into a procession of cartoonish violence earlier than the 2 ladies unintentionally kill the boyfriend character, share a kiss, and go away the previous lover’s funeral to crack jokes at his expense.
Concerning the music’s material, Carpenter instructed Paper Journal, “I will write any song. It doesn’t mean I’ll put it out, but I’ll write it. I think the series of unfortunate events I’ve encountered in relationships are no secret to people who know me or think they know me.” As for the video, she instructed Amazon Music, “I had this vision and idea to show just a very open, light-hearted, brutal relationship between two women where it’s obvious how much they love each other and are obsessed with each other. But also there’s jealousy and anger, and I think it’s something that just felt so human to me.”
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