Sabrina Carpenter wants a job at NPR after her little desk show

On December 22, 2024By Littum

Sabrina Carpenter wants to know if NPR is hiring! The pop star wrapped up her sultry, country-tinged Tiny Desk performance on Friday with cute stories from the songs Short ‘n Sweet as she joked about the radio station’s “work environment”.

“NPR, I’ve seen this show…everybody says it, no matter what. You guys are great! You know you’re great!” joked Carpenter, backed by a full band and string ensemble that could barely fit into the tiny corner booth.

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Carpenter opened her show with “Taste,” showing off her hair in her classic blonde curls while wearing a sky blue dress and matching lace stockings.

“When I first started, it was kind of in a room like this: very dry walls, and there’s no reverb like when there’s headphones in the studio, but there’s something so real about it. It’s so special,” Carpenter said.

The pop star then shared a cute story about how she came to be known as “explicitly horny” thanks to her silly, innuendo-filled “Nonsense” outros from her last trip. (Rolling Stone ranked the best.) Carpenter explained that the outros happened as. a “beautiful, happy accident” and it inspired her following LP. “I had this limitless feeling when I started writing Short n’ Sweet” she said.

Carpenter then introduced “Bed Chem” by sharing a story about sharing a king-size bed with her best friend Paloma and the two naturally falling asleep and waking up at the same time. “I thought, ‘We have really good bed medicine,’ so I saved that as a title. Then I met a guy and we had a really good bed medicine… She doesn’t make any money from it, so I give her a lot of credit ,” Carpenter joked.

Carpenter continued her performance with “Please Please Please” and a sample of “Slim Pickins” as she showed off a Dolly Parton-esque country twang. “How do you like this office? Is it a good work environment? It seems like so much fun. I was literally just like, ‘I want to work here! Are you looking for someone?'” Carpenter joked.

She then played her Grammy-nominated song “Espresso” and explained the origins of her infamous “Juno” line. “The day I wrote this song, it came from a joke with a couple of friends…”Make me make me Juno.’ I thought, ‘That’s a funny way to be like that’ ‘Knock me up please’. I’m so sorry, by the way,” laughed Carpenter, before turning to her band and apologizing for her explicit storytelling. “I’ve been performing it on tour and it’s been a lot of fun… I don’t have much space here, but I hope you can imagine!”

Carpenter ends a star-making 2024 after the success of “Espresso” and Short ‘n Sweet. The singer is up for six Grammy awards next year, including album, record and song of the year. She is also nominated for Best New Artist.

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