She’s set to depose Taylor Swift from No 1 and has the most-streamed song in the world this week – the culmination of a decade of slow-burn success
apped with one of the most brilliantly nonsensical chorus lines in pop history – “That’s that me, espresso” – Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso is the most streamed song in the world this week, deposedas the UK’s No 1 single yesterday and is shaping up to be the critics’ pick for the song you won’t be able to escape this summer.
Less brittle than Dua Lipa’s New Rules, more stylish than Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe, Espresso nevertheless ranks among them as a pop song you can’t play just once. The perfectly weighted lyrics are charismatically spiky – “I can’t relate to desperation / My give-a-fucks are on vacation” runs the opening couplet – and Carpenter’s matter-of-fact explanation that she’s “working late, ’cause I’m a singer” has become an instant meme.
Carpenter is widely speculated to be the older “blond girl” whom Rodrigo admits to being “insecure about” in her 2021 mega-smash Driver’s License. Neither party has ever confirmed the reference, though Carpenter’s emotional 2021 single Skin was taken as confirmation, with its lyrics: “Maybe you didn’t mean it / Maybe blond was the only rhyme … Don’t drive yourself insane.”
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