“You can sing along, too. Don’t be shy,” Sabrina Carpenter said in front of the star-studded crowd at the Time100 Next Gala on Wednesday evening.
The pop star took a slight detour amid her “Short n’ Sweet” tour across North America to perform acoustic versions of her hits “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” at the intimate soiree. The event, which took place at a venue inside Chelsea Piers in New York City, celebrated Time’s 2024 list of 100 rising stars in entertainment, sports, business, politics and more.
“I feel so lucky to be able to be in the room with so many artists that I admire for so many different reasons,” Carpenter shared on stage. “This next song that I wrote about a year ago was a song that I wanted to put out for the summer. And now I’ve heard it a lot, and I’m very grateful for that. But if you’re sick of it, I’m so…