Sabrina Carpenter Channels Shakespeare in Recent “Nonsense” Outro

Sabrina Carpenter performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Saturday Aug. 10 2024.
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Sabrina Carpenter never misses an opportunity to be hilarious — and a little suggestive — when it comes to her live “Nonsense” outros.

The musician and recent pop sensation followed her usual formula over the weekend while headlining the Outside Lands Music Festival in the San Francisco Bay area. Carpenter wasn't originally supposed to be Saturday's headliner — her first gig headlining a festival — but rapper Tyler, the Creator announced in June that he had to pull out of the set citing personal reasons.

The 4-foot-11 pop singer stepped up to the plate on August 10 and brought a huge performance, including a surprise duet with country singer Kacey Musgraves. The pair were both wearing different but similar sparkly dresses while standing on platforms across from each other, singing “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'” by Nancy Sinatra. Carpenter expertly played the tambourine during the song while belting out the lyrics.

When it came time for her song “Nonsense," a hit song off of her fifth studio album, Emails I Couldn't Send, Carpenter made sure to include a unique outro for the crowd, as she typically does. This time, Carpenter went Shakespearean with it and made sure to mention that her next album is coming out very soon.

While standing in front of a person who was kneeling and holding a scroll, Carpenter sang the outro: “Soon cometh my album, so exciting/ My heart doth pound beneath my breasts, so mighty/ Outside Lands, it’s like thou art inside me.”

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Carpenter gave a cheeky little laugh halfway through and waited for the crowd to cheer before being escorted off-stage by the unnamed person.

In April, Sabrina Carpenter joked in an interview with Cosmopolitan that her “Nonsense” outros were more than just “obnoxiously horny.”

"I feel like I've learned a lot more about sexuality through writing [the outros] than people think," Carpenter said in the interview. “I think people think I'm just obnoxiously horny when in reality, writing them comes from the ability to not be fearful of your sexuality as opposed to just not being able to put it down."