After 10 years of hard work, Sabrina Carpenter has finally become mainstream with her sixth studio album, Short n’ Sweet
Compared to her older albums, Short n’ Sweet sounds more mature with more explicit lyrics. I feel this is Carpenter’s way of breaking away from the Disney kid look. She does not associate with her first four Disney produced albums and calls Short and Sweet her “second big girl album.”
I hadn’t really listened to Sabrina Carpenter’s new music and only really listened to a few of her older songs, but I started hearing clips of Short n’ Sweet on TikTok and decided to try it out. Honestly, I was surprised by it.
The opening track, “Taste,” was a good start to the album. It’s campy, an earworm, and sets the tone for the rest of the album. I loved the music video for the song and the references to Death Becomes Her. I’m not caught up with all the drama between Carpenter and Camila Cabello, but “Taste” was an amazing comeback to Cabello’s song “June Gloom.” My favorite part of the song was the bridge, because the rhyming flows nicely, and it remained fixed in my brain.
The most popular songs, “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” were singles released before the album and. On Spotify they have over two billion listens combined and both songs hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Out of the two, “Espresso” is definitely the bigger song out of the two, with people calling it the song of the summer because of its upbeat and catchy melody. I personally would rather listen to “Please Please Please” when given the choice.
One of the songs that I thought was beautifully written and sung was “Don’t Smile.” The ballad is the closing track of the album. It’s about the aftermath of a breakup with Carpenter wanting her ex to feel the same heart ache as her. The line “Oh, you’re supposed to think about me/Every time you hold her” was impactful. I took this as Carpenter wanting her memory to live on in her ex and wanting him to struggle to move on from her.
I really liked the rest of the album, but it did feel inconsistent, with genres bouncing from folk pop to country pop, then having it bounce back to normal pop. I’ve also seen many people online who have said that some songs, like “Slim Pickins,” felt as if they were just there to fill space. But all in all, I enjoyed listening to the album and recommend listening to it if you’re trying to open your music taste up
*I go by the Tyson Meter which goes on a 0-10 scale, 0-4 being nearly or completely unlistenable, 5-7 in the “maybe listen to this” or “this is kind of good” range, and 8-10 being genuinely good I recommend this*
FINAL RATING:7.5
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