We’re ready for one of the most anticipated albums of the year. Sabrina Carpenter releases today ‘Short N’ Sweet’, her sixth album, believe it or not. The new single is ‘Taste’.
‘Taste’ has the “good taste” of being inspired by soft-rock from the 70s and 80s, because ‘Taste’ refers to both Fleetwood Mac and Kim Carnes’ ‘Bette Davis Eyes’, to name two obvious influences. For Carpenter, this sound fits like a glove.
The lyrics will be talked about, probably inspired by a love triangle that Carpenter has experienced first-hand. And we’re not referring to the one between Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bartnett, but to another one. In ‘Taste’ Carpenter describes a three-way relationship in phrases like: “When you feel her lips, you’ll feel mine, and when you breathe her air, know that I’ve been there before.” And the fact is that Carpenter, a good Samaritan, “likes to share.” And if “I sing about this,” she adds, “it’s because I don’t care.”
The surprise of ‘Taste’ is that the video is inspired by a horror film and co-stars Jenna Ortega, one of the key actresses of this genre in recent years. The preview of ‘Taste’ showed the singer surprising Ortega with a knife, who is in the shower with a lover, and recreating the iconic murder scene in ‘Psycho’.
With the release of the video, we discover that Ortega manages to escape death by cutting off the singer’s arm with a machete. This is after shooting her, electrocuting her and burning her in what becomes a comical gore festival in which both tear each other apart. Somehow, they end up reconciling and forgetting the boy for whom they were willing to die. A happy ending in every sense.
