As a fellow Sabrina stan, I can say with confidence that I love it when I see a new music video of hers. I definitely expect the best from Carpenter’s music video style.
Sabrina Carpenter has been one of the most influential pop stars of today. With her lengthy career from Disney Channel to her own World Tours, featuring some of the most famous songs today, she has had a great start in the music industry.
Carpenter has created numerous music videos for her most famous songs, including “Espresso,” “Taste,” “Manchild,” and “Tears.” Each video features amazing cinematography, celebrity guests, and a great storyline for the fans to follow and get involved with.
Carpenter is famous for killing off her love interest in each one of her videos. The trend first began when her music video for “Almost Love” came out. In the video, her love interest is turned into stone with a kiss, making him “not alive”. The most notable start of the trend is in her music video for the song “Feather”, where actor Milo Manheim is killed off in the video, along with many other men who are trying to go after Carpenter.
Videos worth mentioning for this viral trend include “Please, Please, Please,” “Taste,” “Manchild,” and “Tears,” Carpenter’s most recent music video. In the “Tears” music video that came out in August of this year, Carpenter mentions her trend of “killing men”. She released multiple alternate endings for the music video the week it came out, each with a different ending for her love interest, who is killed. At the end of each video, the love interest is still alive, and she gets confused, saying, “Wait, no.. you died earlier, I thought. It’s a thing, someone has to die in every video.” She goes on to throw her shoe into his chest, and he dies. Sarbina goes on to say, “We have to give the people what they want.”
This trend has persisted for years, and it has been a consistent favourite among her fans. Especially those who have been done wrong by a man. Her fans have started tracking this trend and calling them her victims. Fans speculate that most of these victims are her old boyfriends who wronged her. A final “see you never” at that.
With this trend of killing off her love interests comes plotlines and references to famous movies everyone loves. Carpenter is known for a surprise in each video, whether it’s a person, a plot twist, or clues hinting at older videos or new things to come.
In her most famous music video titled “Taste”, Jenna Ortega is featured. The video pays tribute to the 1992 comedy Death Becomes Her, which starred Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn. This movie is about two women who violently compete over the same guy. One is married to him, and the other is his ex-wife. In the “Taste” music video, the plot is very similar. Carpenter and Ortega fight over the same guy, and she even showcases famous scenes from the movie.
“Tears”, being the newest addition to her music video collection, is inspired by the classic 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. With the retro vibe, characters that look like they’re straight out of the movie, and Colman Domingo playing a Dr. Frank-N-Furter-esque character. Carpenter moves like the character Janice in the film, who both end up in a bad situation: their car breaks down, and they wander into a spooky house with strange people inside.
The outfits in Carpenter’s music videos never miss either. From her fluffy coat in the music video “Please, Please, Please,” to her ensemble in “Tears”. The execution is no short of her outfits on her Short n’ Sweet tour, where they have gone viral on all social media platforms. I would love to wear one of those outfits myself personally.
With Carpenter’s creativity, her music videos aren’t just plain boring lip-syncing ones; they are actual stories. Stories filled to the brim with excitement, anticipation, horror, and humour. You will laugh, cry, scream, and most importantly, be amazed. The fun in her videos is something her fans and everyone in the music industry can sense on screen.
Each video just keeps getting better, and we have seen that as her platform grows and her fandom reaches high levels.
With Sabrina Carpenter’s amazing plotlines, content, celebrity guests, humour, and homage to older films, she is ruling the music industry one trend and dead guy at a time.