She’s working late, ’cause she’s singing on The Tonight Show. Sabrina Carpenter returned to the late night program to perform her smash hit “Espresso” on Thursday night (Oct. 3), giving Jimmy Fallon’s audience an after-dark jolt of caffeine.
Taking the stage in a baby-blue leotard — surrounded by a full band and back-up singers dressed in white — the 25-year-old pop star served up silky vocals and perky choreography before slinking over to Fallon’s interview set-up, taking his spinning chair for a ride and laying across his desk. “Now he’s thinking ’bout me every night, oh/ Is it that sweet? I guess so,” she sang. “Say you can’t sleep, baby, I know/ That’s that me espresso.”
The performance came a little over a month after Carpenter dropped by The Tonight Show to perform her Billboard Hot 100-topping single “Please Please Please.” Since that appearance, the musician’s album Short n’ Sweet has spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking her first LP to reach the chart’s summit.
Carpenter has also since kicked off her first-ever arena tour, opening Sept. 23 in Columbus. Four days before her latest Tonight Show stop, she headlined New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Amid the trek, the Girl Meets World alum has spoken out against lip-syncing accusations and critics of her embracing her sexuality on stage. On a recent TikTok speculating about the former, Carpenter commented: “i sing live every show 100% would you like to speak to my audio engineers.”
And in her new TIME cover story, Carpenter said her piece on the latter. “You’ll still get the occasional mother that has a strong opinion on how you should be dressing,” she told the publication. “And to that I just say, don’t come to the show and that’s OK. It’s unfortunate that it’s ever been something to criticize, because truthfully, the scariest thing in the world is getting up on a stage in front of that many people and having to perform as if it’s nothing. If the one thing that helps you do that is the way you feel comfortable dressing, then that’s what you’ve got to do.”
Watch Carpenter sing “Espresso” on The Tonight Show below.
