Sabrina Carpenter wants to know if NPR is hiring! The pop star packed her sultry, country-tinged Tiny Desk performance Friday with sweet storytimes of the songs on Short ‘n Sweet as she joked about the radio station’s “working environment.”
“NPR, I’ve been watching this show… everyone says this, whatever. You guys are great! You guys know you’re great!” joked Carpenter, backed by a full band and string ensemble that could barely fit in the minuscule corner cubicle.
Carpenter opened her show with “Taste,” with Carpenter showing off her hair in her classic blond curls while wearing a sky blue dress and matching lace stockings.
“When I first started, it was kind of in a room like this: Very dry walls and there’s no reverb like when there’s headphones in the studio, but there’s something so real about it. It’s so special,” Carpenter said.
The pop star then shared a sweet story about how she came to know as “explicitly horny” thanks to her silly, innuendo-filled “Nonsense” outros from her last tour. (Rolling Stone ranked the best ones.) Carpenter explained that the outros happened as. a “beautiful, happy accident” and it inspired her following LP. “I had this limitless feeling when I started writing Short n’ Sweet,” she said.
