Sabrina Carpenter

Sabrina Carpenter may have become a household name thanks to “Espresso”—the flirty funk banger that became summer 2024’s defining hit—but she immediately followed it up with Short n’ Sweet, an album full of harrowing (and hilarious) tales from the trenches of dating. Carpenter isn’t just putting her suitors on blast in her lyrics, but herself too. “A lot of what I really love about this album is the accountability,” she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe at the time. “I will call myself out just as much as I will call out someone else.” Self-examination is simply part of the package for Sabrina Carpenter, who has made the transition from teen-TV star to pop-dominating force look remarkably easy. It helps that the actor and singer-songwriter—born in 1999 in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania—pursued both sides of her career in tandem, releasing music while establishing a regular presence on the Disney Channel and through other acting gigs, including on Broadway. While her early albums set her apart from her teenage peers with her deft delivery and her eagerness to embrace plenty of dance music sounds, subsequent efforts provided yet more proof of Carpenter’s fast-developing abilities as a club powerhouse. Foreshadowed by the lyrical intimacy of 2022’s emails i can’t send, “Espresso,” the Jack Antonoff-produced “Please Please Please,” and Short n’ Sweet propelled Carpenter into the stratosphere. She only grew more witty and confessional on 2025’s Man’s Best Friend, a tongue-in-cheek dance pop record that doubled as a timely temperature check on modern lust. Pairing bubbly hooks with barbed punchlines, it’s Carpenter to the core.