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Sabrina Carpenter review – brilliantly bonkers innuendo-stuffed delirium
This 1970s variety show complete with title cards, cheesy voiceover and overt sexiness could be Carry On Carpenter, but the star has more in her arsenal than just kooky camp
As one-third of last year’s pop girl summer alongside Charli xcx’s blitzkrieg agit-rave and Chappell Roan’s vampy queer anthems, the 25-year-old American not only dominated the charts – her three UK No 1s from star-making sixth album Short n’ Sweet spent 21 weeks at the top spot in 2024 – but she did it with a refreshing nudge and a wink. Switching to the boudoir part of the stage for the laid-back sex jam, Bed Chem, we see a silhouetted Carpenter performing overtly sexual moves with a male dancer to screams of delight from the mainly female, mainly preteen audience and shock from the accompanying parents. Even the show’s opening setup – Carpenter shown on screen in the bath apparently having forgotten she was due onstage only to appear before us wrapped in a glittery towel lined with a union jack – screams Barbara Windsor.
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