Sabrina Carpenter has officially kicked off the Short n' Sweet Tour and you can check out the set list from opening night right here! The 25-year-old singer played the first show of her sold-out arena tour on Monday night (September 23) at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Sabrina began the show with her current single "Taste" as the opening number and she of course ended the show with "Espresso" as the closing song.
At one point during the show, Sabrina played spin-the-bottle on stage with her dancers to select a surprise cover song. For opening night, she performed ABBA's "Mamma Mia," but you can expect a different song at each show!
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This set list is representative of night one on the tour and might not be completely accurate for every show.
- Taste
- Good Graces
- Slim Pickins
- Tornado Warnings
- Lie to Girls
- Decode
- Bed Chem
- Feather
- Fast Times
- Read Your Mind
- Sharpest Tool
- Opposite
- Because I Liked a Boy
- Coincidence
- SURPRISE COVER SONG
- Nonsense
- Dumb & Poetic
- Juno
- Please Please Please
- Don't Smile
- ENCORE: Espresso
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The pop phenom kicked off her Short n’ Sweet world tour in Columbus, Ohio, last night to an audience anticipating which city-incorporating innuendo she would spin to conclude the song. The last time she was in Ohio, she whipped up: “If it’s small that’s super inconvenient/If he doesn’t know this song you should leave him/I wish that I could put the cleve in Cleveland.” But the singer has decided to retire the lyrical shtick this time around.
At the end of “Nonsense,” Carpenter delivered the usual “Woke up this morning, thought I’d write a pop hit/How quickly can you take your clothes off pop quiz?” set up. Then, when she would normally launch into the outro, she started descending beneath the stage and feigned a microphone mishap with a look of faux confusion. “We apologize for the interruption of our program due to technical difficulties,” a graphic on the stage read.
Sabrina Carpenter will not be doing “Nonsense” outros during her Short n’ Sweet tour:“We apologize for the interruption of our program due to technical difficulties.“ pic.twitter.com/FWmK8fsTxQ
The outro series had a good run. When Carpenter performed on Saturday Night Live, she spun it into: “He is 30 Rock hard cause I said “Hi”/My sense of humor is but I am not dry/SNL I just came for the first time.” And when she stopped by BBC’s Radio 1 Live Lounge, she joked: “I’m American, I am not British/So BBC, it stands for somethin’ different/This Live Lounge is so lit because I’m in it/Innit, because I’m innit, you get it?”
The last one she delivered was at San Fransisco’s Outside Lands in August. “Soon cometh my album so exciting/My heart doth pound beneath my breasts, so mighty/Outside Lands, it’s like thou art inside me,” she sang, bringing the era to an end on a Shakespearian note.
But the death of the “Nonsense” outro doesn’t mark the end of Carpenter’s affinity for horny one-liners. Her new album is full of them. The viral second verse from “Bed Chem” is the perfect example: “Come right on me, I mean camaraderie/Said you’re not in my time zone, but you wanna be/Where art thou? Why not uponeth me?/See it in my mind, let’s fulfill the prophecy.”
Carpenter also injected comedy into other parts of her production on the Short n’ Sweet tour for good measure. At the end of the show, fans were treated to a prerecorded goodbye message. “Hope you had a great night, drive safe! Thanks for coming to my tour. I love singing,” she says in the infomercial-style video. “I hope you liked hearing me sing for that long. Make sure to check out the merch table on the way out. There’s a lot of merch — or maybe there isn’t, maybe it sold out. I don’t know, I filmed this months ago.”
And she just keeps going: “Thanks so much for coming to the show. I hope you sang your heart out. Just kidding, I know you did. I was there the whole time. I love you. Have a good night, everybody. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Thanks for coming to the show. Hope you had a great night. Was that sincere?”
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“This was a real cute way of moving on to the next chapter.”
BuzzFeed Staff
The Emails I Can’t Send album track ends with the star singing in an outro: “This song catchier than chickenpox is / I bet your house is where my other sock is / Woke up this morning, thought I'd write a pop hit / How quickly can you take your clothes off pop quiz?”
Before long, the star earned a reputation for just how NSFW these lyrics could be, with Sabrina admitting to being “vulgar” with the tradition in the past.
Sabrina even extended the outros to performances that aren’t directly linked to her tour, including at music festivals, when supporting Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and her controversial appearance on the BBC’s Radio 1 Live Lounge.
As a result, people have understandably come to expect a custom outro every time that Sabrina performs live, and waited with bated breath to see what she would sing when she kicked off her brand new tour, Short n’ Sweet, on Monday night.
While many fans are, of course, disappointed to see the end of this tradition, they also admitted that it was an understandable decision for Sabrina after two years — especially considering she is now touring a whole new album.
They also lauded how she chose to go about it, with one person tweeting: “This is such a genius way to move on from it I’m obsessed.”
“This is such a smart way to announce that she’s not gonna do the outro anymore. Props to her and her team,” somebody else agreed.
One more wrote: “This was a real cute way of moving on to the next chapter.”
The star’s next stop is Toronto, Canada, on Wednesday, with the 47-date tour scheduled to end in Milan, Italy, on March 26.
BuzzFeed Staff
Sabrina Carpenter is officially on the road. The 25-year-old pop star kicked off her anticipated Short n’ Sweet Tour on Sept. 23 in Columbus, Ohio. Keep reading to see the full setlist, including all the songs (and a surprise cover) she performed during her opening night.
The “Espresso” singer will perform in 29 cities across North America — including New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena, as well as Boston, Dallas, Denver, San Francisco, Montreal, and more. Amaarae, Griff, and Declan McKenna will be the supporting acts on select dates.
The Short n’ Sweet Tour supports the Pennsylvania native’s new album of the same name, Short n’ Sweet, released on Aug. 23. The record is home to top-charting singles like “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” and “Taste.” Short n’ Sweet debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and spent three weeks in the top spot.
“today is one month of short n’ sweet and tour starts tonight!!” she wrote on her Instagram stories before the show. “this album is so beyond special to me and i can’t thank you enough for listening.”
On opening night, Carpenter performed tracks from Short n’ Sweet, including fan favorites like “Slim Pickins,” “Bed Chem,” and “Coincidence.” She also revisited hits from her 2022 album emails I can’t send, including “because I liked a boy,” “Tornado Warnings,” and “decode.”
Though Carpenter is known for her risqué “Nonsense” outros, she seems to be skipping them on the Short n’ Sweet Tour. “We apologize for the interruption of our program due to technical difficulties,” she quipped at the end of the song, where her outro would have been.
During the opening night of the Short n’ Sweet tour, Sabrina Carpenter performed 21 songs, including one surprise song. Check out the full Short N’ Sweet tour setlist below.
Yes, after Carpenter performs “Coincidence,” she has a segment where she spins a bottle to decide which of four surprise songs to perform a cover of. On the tour's debut night, the bottle landed on ABBA's “Mamma Mia.” Watch a clip from X of her performing the cover below.
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