- 2024-12-21
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Sabrina Carpenter Performs at NPR Tiny Desk Concert
American singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter appeared on NPR Tiny Desk Concert to perform 6 songs, “Taste”, “Bed Chem”, “Please Please Please”, “Slim Pickins”, “Espresso”, and “Juno”.
This marks the first time Sabrina Carpenter has performed on Tiny Desk Concert.
6 songs are featured on her sixth studio album “Short n' Sweet”, which was released back in August via Island Records.
The album was for nominated for Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards.
Additionally, the single “Espresso” received nominations for Record of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, and Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical.
The ceremony will take place at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 2, 2025.
Sabrina Carpenter said at the top of her performance, “NPR first and foremost, I've been watching this show everyone says this whatever you guys are great, you guys know you're great, and this is such an honor and I feel like as someone who I started writing songs when I was probably 10 or 11 years old they weren't very good but they got better maybe later and when I first started [writing songs] it was kinda in a room like this you're in a room with like very dry walls and there's no reverb it doesn't sound like as maybe as nice as when there's headphones and in studio but there's something so real about it and so special and now when I write these songs that you're hearing, this is exactly how I wrote them in a room with this energy and people I love and producers. I love and that songs really special to me.”- “Taste” via Kiss 108
“'Taste' is one of my favorite songs off the album and it says a lot about me and a lot about other people. I think it’s sort of poking fun of myself a little bit for my mistakes and also poking fun at the, kind of like, facepalm that is life and relationship and the, sort of, situations that it puts you in, um, and it’s just making lighthearted fun at the whole concept of, you know, people that you’ve been with moving on to other people, and, you know, I think it’s a very human thing but it’s certainly fun.” -
“Bed Chem”
“This next song isa very funny story of how it came to be... some people know me for I guess being explicitly horny. It's actually not so simple as that. It's something that really was a beautiful and happy accident on my last tour I started doing these outros as part of a song that these were lyrics that never made it to the end of the song they were all like reject lyrics and lyrics that should honestly never be heard by the general public and as a joke, I was like well Boston can handle it, so like let's just throw one in for Boston. And Boston handled it so well that I was like what about Chicago and then it kind of kept going and I think I had this like limitless feeling when I started writing short and sweet. And I have a best friend her name's Paloma and we were having like this weekend in an Airbnb her and I has so split this king bed and I'd never had a sleepover with her before we were sharing a bed we'd always be in like separate rooms so it was like kind of a test for our friendship. And I don't know if you guys have ever slept with anybody in a bed, show of hands anyone, very humble modest folks here, thank you for your bravery, I had this sleepover with her and we're like talking and it's like we fall asleep at the exact same time like no one had to say like okay I think we should probably head to sleep now we both just shut our eyes went to bed shut up and then no one was kicking, no one was snoring and we both woke up but the same like when you roll like over and it's like very peaceful and you're like good morning, good morning, you don't have to like punch them to waken them up she just woke up and I was like we have really good bed chem. And she was like we do have really good bed chem and so saved I this as a title and then I met a guy and I was like we'd have really good bed chem in a different way than I have with Paloma. And I wrote this song, she doesn't make money on it, so I give her a lot of credit.”
“Please Please Please”
“This next song is a really special song that I wrote for short and sweet it kind of introduced a whole new chapter of the album to me, whole new chapter of my life. And also kind of showed me how I can have a lot grounded reality as well as my sense of humor, really really combined into something very special. I wrote this with one of my closet friends Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff. It's called 'Please Please Please'”
“Espresso”
“This next song is a very.. it's Grammy nominated which is cool. And that's the first time I can say that so I'm very excited and honored and grateful. And I just like I had zero expectations when writing this song. It was just so much fun to make and I knew it was special I Just never knew that people had such a caffeine addiction and such a problem. I really underestimated how much of a problem it is in our world. This is 'Espresso'. I hope you like it.”
“Juno”
“This is my last song and the day I wrote the song, it kind of came from a joke the night before I was writing a joke song with a couple friends and I ad lived this line and it was like make you want to make me Juno because I was like I just watch Juno and I was like that's a like funny way to be like knock me up please now. I know I'm so sorry by the way. So then the idea for Juno came to life and I've been performing it on tour and it's very fun, so I don't have much space to move here, but I hope you can picture it and I hope like it. This is 'Juno'.” - source : NPR
