We gather here today to mourn the loss of a true pop icon: the awesome outros that Sabrina Carpenter usually performs at the end of “Nonsense”. The pop phenomenon launched her Short and sweet World Tour in Columbus, Ohio, last night to a crowd eager to see what city reference she would include to close the song. Last time she was in Ohio, she heated things up: “When it’s small, that’s super inconvenient/If he don’t know that song, you should leave him/I wish I could put the Cleve in Cleveland.” But the singer has decided to forgo the lyrical gag this time around.
At the end of “Nonsense,” Carpenter delivered the usual introduction, “Woke up this morning thinking I’m writing a pop hit/How fast can you take your clothes off?” Then, as she would normally launch into the outro, she began to descend under the stage and feigned confusion as she feigned a mishap with the microphone. “We apologize for the interruption of our program due to technical difficulties,” read a graphic on the stage.
The outro series went well. When Carpenter appeared Saturday Night Liveshe turned it into: “He’s 30 and rock hard because I said hi/My sense of humor is but I’m not dry/SNL, I’m just here for the first time.” And stopping by BBC’s Radio 1 Live Lounge, she joked: “I’m American, I’m not British/So BBC stands for something different/This Live Lounge is so dope because I’m in it/Ain’t it, because I’m not true, you know?”
The last song she performed was at Outside Lands in San Francisco in August. “My album’s coming soon, so exciting/My heart’s pounding so hard under my chest/Outside Lands, it’s like you’re inside me,” she sang, ending the era on a Shakespearean note.
But the end of the “Nonsense” outro doesn’t mean the end of Carpenter’s penchant for dope one-liners. Her new album is full of them. The viral second verse of “Bed Chem” is the perfect example: “Come right at me, I mean camaraderie/I said you’re not in my time zone, but you wanna be/Where you at? Why not on me?/See it in my head, let’s fulfill the prophecy.”
Carpenter also added comedy to other parts of her production. Short and sweet Tour to top it all off. At the end of the show, fans were treated to a pre-recorded farewell message. “I hope you had a great night, drive safe! Thanks for coming to my tour. I love to sing,” she says in the infomercial-style video. “I hope you enjoyed listening to me for so long. Make sure you stop by the merch table on the way out. There’s a lot of merch there – or maybe not, maybe it’s sold out. I don’t know, I filmed this months ago.”
And she simply continues, “Thank you so much for coming to the show. I hope you sang your heart out. Just kidding, I know you did. I was there the whole time. I love you. Have a good evening, everyone. Be careful not to get hit by the door on the way out. Thank you for coming to the show. I hope you had a great evening. Were you serious?”
