Clearly, Sabrina and her glam squad aced the assignment.
Sabrina Carpenter’s VMAs 2024 nominations include: artist of the year, song of the year (“Espresso”), best pop, best direction (“Please Please Please,” directed by Bardia Zeinali), best editing (“Espresso,” edited by Jai Shukla), and best art direction (“Please Please Please,” art direction by Nicholas des Jardins). She’s working late, ‘cuz she’s a singer…
Last year, Sabrina Carpenter performed a mashup of “Nonsense” and “Feather,” her two biggest songs at the time. Now, she’s got multiple major hits, including “Please, Please, Please,” the possibly gossipy “Taste,” and the song of the summer, “Espresso.”
Hopefully she’ll get to meet her favourite celebs tonight.
“Oh god—I had a really dangerous Zac Efron phase, when he was in Hairspray,” she recently told W. “I was 12 years old, and I was on a beach for the Fourth of July. He would never remember this, but I saw him and said, ‘I’m a big fan of your work!’ He gave me a hug. And I remember thinking, Oh my god—he wasn’t wearing a shirt and he gave me a hug! I was like, This is amazing. I’m never washing my body!”
A version of this article originally appeared on Glamour US.