Jenna Ortega Weighs In On Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’

Jenna Ortega and Sabrina Carpenter are the latest dynamic pair grabbing consideration. Their headline-making moments started with Carpenter’s launch of the “Style” music video, that includes the “Wednesday” actress.

The 2 have clearly developed a robust friendship, with Jenna Ortega just lately expressing her assist for Sabrina Carpenter and her new album.

Carpenter has absolutely embraced her “Brief n’ Candy” period, launching it with the 2024 summer season hit “Espresso,” which shortly went viral. Simply two months later, her single “Please Please Please” soared to the highest of the charts, incomes her first No. 1 hit within the U.S.

Final week, she launched the complete album, “Brief n’ Candy,” and followers are already obsessed. The album’s opening observe, “Style,” has taken the internet by storm, particularly attributable to its music video, which is a dramatic revenge saga the place Carpenter, 25, performs a girl who’s going after her ex, portrayed by “Halloween” star Rohan Campbell, who’s now with one other lady, performed by 21-year-old Jenna Ortega.

Carpenter’s character goes to excessive lengths, stalking Ortega, breaking into her residence, and even attempting to kill her, whereas singing the lyrics, “You’ll simply need to style me when he’s kissing you.”

Ortega isn’t one to again down, nonetheless, and she or he matches Carpenter’s depth with a sequence of fierce confrontations, together with scenes the place she units Carpenter on hearth, chops off her arm, throws her out a window, and impales her on a picket fence.

When attending the premiere of her new film, “Beetlejuice,” Ortega was requested how she feels about Carpenter’s new album.

“Oh my god, I believe it is stunning, great, wonderful,” the actress said. “She’s unbelievable.”

Forward of its launch, Carpenter spoke with Jimmy Fallon, the place she dished on the video’s inspiration.“[The video] was impressed by one among my favourite movies, and she or he was an enormous fan of the movie,” she stated of Ortega. “I’m so excited for you guys to see this video, you don’t have any concept. I believe it’s my favourite one I’ve ever performed.”

The previous Disney Channel star additionally talked about her album’s title, telling the late-night discuss present host, “It does actually really feel like a self-titled album to me, in a bizarre method. It actually simply appears like all of those tales and reminiscences — simply very blunt, very ahead, very enjoyable and simply a few of the greatest reminiscences I’ve had.”

After listening to your entire album, many followers suspect that some tracks reference her rumored relationship with Shawn Mendes. As an illustration, in “Style,” the singer appears to throw shade at Mendes and his shirtless pictures with the lyrics, “You are wonderin’ why half his garments went missin’ / My physique’s the place they at.”

Moreover, when Carpenter and Ortega kill the person within the video, many followers couldn’t assist however discover the placing similarities to Mendes’ ‘Surprise’ cowl.

Moreover, the observe “Sharpest Software” seems to focus on an ex for rekindling a previous romance, which might be geared toward Mendes. Mendes was seen sharing a kiss with Camila Cabello in April 2023, simply two months after Carpenter was rumored to be spending time with him.

Along with “Style” and her two newest hits, “Please Please Please” and “Espresso,” Carpenter’s new album additionally options the tracks “Sharpest Instruments,” “Coincidence,” “Good Graces,” “Slim Pickins,” “Juno,” “Deceive Women,” “Mattress Chem,” “Dumb & Poetic,” and “Don’t Smile.”

“It’s my second ‘massive woman’ album,” she informed Variety forward of its launch. “It’s a companion, but it surely’s not the identical. In terms of having full artistic management and being a full-fledged grownup, I’d contemplate this a sophomore album.”

“Brief n’ Candy” is out now.