Between slipping into a glittering green fairy dress (even though, let’s be honest, we’d still clap for her if it wasn’t Halloween) and twirling around like Lizzie McGuire’s bobble-headed cartoon alter ego circa 2003, Sabrina Carpenter has officially crowned herself queen of chic spooky. She even turned her Short n’ Sweet tour into a full-on Día de los Muertos ball last year—because of course she did—making it nearly impossible not to be obsessed. And while we’re crossing every frozen finger that she brings the same ghostly glam to her Madison Square Garden show this October 31, we’ve conjured up a killer five-song playlist to groove (and maybe haunt) to in the meantime.
‘Feather’
With “RIP B*tch” scrabble-glued onto cotton candy–pink cross tombstones, our black-veiled Sabrina Carpenter becomes the pop patron saint of poetic justice in the ‘Feather’ music video—a glittery, pastel reimagining of karma itself. Directed by Mia Barnes, it’s the moment she fully claims her cinematic universe, where no mediocre man makes it out alive. Between nonchalantly touching up her lip gloss as the mansplainers around her literally fight themselves to death and seductively reeling in a leering business bro by his tie before the elevator doors close, ‘Feather’ is a masterclass in femme fatality—all wrapped in bubblegum and vengeance.
Cheeky, camp, and career-defining, it’s a Barbie-pink burial for the male gaze.
‘Taste’
Think Sabrina Carpenter’s Pinterest board is all heart-cutout corsets and enough double entendres to power a Tinder algorithm? Maybe most days—but not during Halloween. Around that time, it’s probably overflowing with Death Becomes Her clips and revenge-core inspo.
Enter ‘Taste,’ a wickedly gruesome, wink-at-the-camera spectacle directed by Dave Meyers. It opens on a luscious, pink-lit bedroom—equal parts boudoir and crime scene—scattered with sharp weapons and a plush teddy bound with lipstick-stained tape. It’s hard to tell whether Sabrina’s the final girl or the one doing the slashing (spoiler: probably both).
Then comes Wednesday’s own goth queen, Jenna Ortega, co-starring in what might be the campiest catfight of the year—two femme fatales literally trying to kill each other over a man. There’s a backfiring voodoo doll, blood aplenty, and a wink of meta self-awareness that makes the whole thing feel like Mean Girls reimagined by a horror auteur. It’s hilarious, sexy, and gloriously unhinged—exactly the kind of chaos we expect from Sabrina’s candy-coated carnage era.
‘Tornado Warnings’
Okay, so this one leans less horror movie massacre and more emotional hazard warning. When Sabrina sings ‘Tornado Warnings,’ she’s not telling us to dive into a bunker—she’s reminding us to steer clear of anyone who can’t weather their own emotional storm. It’s less about surviving natural disasters and more about dodging human ones.
Instead of lying to your therapist like she does (so they don’t pry you away from the mess you mistake for love), Sabrina’s saying: recognize the red flags before you’re glued to someone with the emotional adhesive strength of conjoined twins made of codependency and denial.
It’s one of the most self-aware moments on emails i can’t send—the calm eye of the storm where she finally admits she saw the warning signs but stayed anyway. In a record built on sharp confessionals and winking deflections, ‘Tornado Warnings’ feels like the rare track where she drops the glitter and lets us see the girl beneath the chaos, clutching her phone, still hoping the storm might text back.
‘Nonsense’
Our Shakespearean-but-make-it-hot rhyme smith, Sabrina Carpenter, has these ‘Nonsense’ outros on lock, but nothing hits quite as Halloween-coded as her Short n’ Sweet Day of the Dead ball. She brings the crowd into the frightful fun with a perfect pop-culture jump scare: dressed as Sandy from Grease in a slick black jumpsuit, she pauses mid-set, feigns hearing a noise, and gasps, “My god, guys, that was so scary. It sounds like it’s, like, a pop hit.” Cue the beat drop—a clever twist on the song’s usual opener, “Woke up this morning / thought I’d write a pop hit.” It’s classic Carpenter—self-aware, flirty, and funny enough to resurrect the dead.
Even the OG ‘Nonsense’ video shows up at the costume party. Joined by her besties Pamela and Whitney Peak, Sabrina flips her usual petite glam for a boyish disguise—ball cap, hoodie, and all—playing the role of her own love interest. The hat? A piece of her own merch reading “DIPSH*T,” complete with a glossy red heart on the brim. It’s chaotic, camp, and entirely her: the patron saint of unserious sincerity, turning pop music into a punchline you actually want to kiss.
‘Tears’
We might not be the kind of Man’s Best Friend who takes our golden retrievers on walks up to haunted mansions—but we’re still going inside anyway, even if we’re tear-soaked. Yep, we’re talking about ‘Tears,’ Sabrina Carpenter’s Rocky Horror Picture Show–inspired fever dream, directed by Bardia Zeinali and starring the ever-cool Colman Domingo in full drag as her demon-eyed, disco-dancing mentor from hell.
From the blood-soaked tear that flashes in its title sequence to the surreal stripper pole sprouting from a cornfield (seriously, Smallville could never), ‘Tear’ is a glitter-drenched pop exorcism. It’s all purple light, stilettos, and synth-heavy chaos—part haunted house, part Studio 54 séance. And, true to form, Sabrina ends it in her signature way: with another man meeting his glittery demise. Consider it the final scream queen flourish in her spooky pop canon.
Before the coven flies out, what Sabrina hit is getting the cauldron bubbling at pre’s? Tag us on Insta, Twitter, or Facebook — we might pull a tarot card to see if you’re right. 💅🔮
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