Sabrina Carpenter has scrapped her usual adlibbed ‘Nonsense’ outros and has promised a surprise cover during each night of her current tour.
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Last night (September 23), Carpenter kicked off her ‘Short N’ Sweet’ headlining tour which marks her first arena tour ever at the Nationwide Arena in Colombus, Ohio. The night saw her perform a 21-song setlist with the majority of it stemming from her recently released sixth studio LP also titled ‘Short N’ Sweet‘.
The singer opened the night with ‘Taste’ followed by the live debut of her tracks ‘Good Graces’, ‘Slim Pickins’, ‘Lie To Girls’ and ‘Bad Chem’. Midway through the show, Carpenter performed her 2022 hit ‘Nonsense’. The live version of the track has become a fan favourite due to her custom outros for the song that is based on where she is performing.
At the show, instead of performing an outro for the track, Carpenter began descending beneath the stage while faking a microphone mishap. “We apologize for the interruption of our program due to technical difficulties,” read a graphic that appeared on the stage’s screen.
Sabrina Carpenter will not be doing “Nonsense” outros during her Short n’ Sweet tour:
“We apologize for the interruption of our program due to technical difficulties.“ pic.twitter.com/FWmK8fsTxQ
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 24, 2024
While Carpenter may have retired the ‘Nonsense’ outros, she has decided to treat her concert attendees to a cover song every night. The cover songs are chosen by a game of Spin the Bottle with her backup dancers. Columbus’ pick was ABBA’s 1975 classic hit ‘Mamma Mia’.
The pop singer’s show featured various vintage-inspired comedy bits such as her stage entrance being made to appear like an old-timey sitcom intro, with the singer not realising she was supposed to be performing due to her being in a bath. At the end of the gig, a video of Carpenter begins to play with her providing a pretty funny goodbye message.
Sabrina Carpenter will perform a surprise cover at every show of her Short n’ Sweet tour — which is chosen by doing Spin The Bottle on stage.
The first one was ‘Mamma Mia’ by ABBA. pic.twitter.com/3MhSm4TcrB
— Pop Base (@PopBase) September 24, 2024
SABRINA CARPENTER IS SO UNSERIOUS #ColumbusShortnSweet #ShortNSweet #ShortNSweetTour pic.twitter.com/Z5GcDEWKNT
— erik misses sab clairo bp (@prfctbags) September 24, 2024
Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short N’ Sweet’ tour in Columbus’ setlist was:
‘Taste’ (extended intro)
‘Good Graces’ (live debut)
‘Slim Pickins’ (spoken intro)
‘Tornado Warnings’
‘Lie to Girls’ (live debut)
‘Decode’ (snippet)
‘Bed Chem’ (live debut)
‘Feather’ (jazz remix)
‘Fast Times’
‘Read your Mind’
‘Sharpest Tool’ (live debut)
‘Opposite’ (shortened)
‘Because I Liked A Boy’
‘Coincidence’ (live debut)
‘Mamma Mia’ (ABBA cover) (Spin the Bottle song)
‘Nonsense (no outro)
‘Dumb & Poetic’ (live debut)
‘Juno’ (live debut)
‘Please Please Please’ (extended intro)
‘Don’t Smile’ (live debut)
‘Espresso’ (extended outro)
The pop singer’s next stop will be on September 25 at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario. Visit here for a full list of tour dates and to purchase any remaining tickets.
In other news, Carpenter recently announced ‘A Nonsense Christmas’, a holiday variety music special set to stream on Netflix later this year.
She also recently teamed up with Christina Aguilera for a duet of the latter’s ‘What A Girl Wants’ in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Aguilera’s self-titled debut album.
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