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Sabrina Carpenter Channels Marilyn Monroe for 2024 VMAs Medley of ‘Please Please Please,’ ‘Taste’ & ‘Espresso’


Sabrina Carpenter sang "Please Please Please," "Taste" and "Espresso" at the 2024 VMAs. Get the details.

Seated on a gigantic diamond on a trapeze high above the stage as silver confetti rained all around her, Carpenter — who was nominated for seven VMAs this year — crooned her Billboard Hot 100 No. The song with sapphic overtones was accented by a censor-nightmare dance sequence in which the alien briefly threw a leg up on the kneeling space ranger’s shoulder as he, well, had a taste, with their bump-and-grind threatening to distract from the singer’s vocals. 3 Hot 100 summer smash “Espresso.” All around her, the space filled up with more than two dozen helmeted rocketeers busting out interstellar choreography beneath neon signs bearing the song’s title and space-themed images on the stage, whose main feature was an enormous Moon Person reaching out into the arena.

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