Leave Quite An Impression: Sabrina Carpenter's Grammy-Winning 'Short 'N' Sweet' Gets Expanded

Leave Quite An Impression: Sabrina Carpenter’s Grammy-Winning ‘Short ‘N’ Sweet’ Gets Expanded

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Hot off her success at the Grammy Awards last weekend, pop star Sabrina Carpenter will reissue last year’s breakthrough Short ‘N’ Sweet with a bevy of new tracks – including a duet with a country legend.

The expanded Short ‘N’ Sweet – this year’s winner for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Vocal Performance, and a nominee for Album of the Year – will be re-released this Friday, February 7 with five bonus tracks, including “Busy Woman” (a bonus track on a previous digital edition) and a new take on last summer’s chart-topping “Please Please Please,” recast as a duet with Dolly Parton. The expansion will also be available on CD and double vinyl.

The pint-sized Pennsylvanian singer first gained prominence as an actress with a supporting role on the Disney sequel series Girl Meets World (a continuation of ’90s sitcom Boy Meets World) and released five albums for the Hollywood and Island labels, most notably 2022’s Emails I Can’t Send and the TikTok favorites “Feather” and “Nonsense,” the latter of which went viral for featuring a new, suggestive outro lyric tailored to the city where she was performing. With an opening slot on Taylor Swift’s blockbuster Eras Tour in 2023 and 2024, the pump seemed primed for Carpenter to break through in a big way – and Short ‘N’ Sweet delivered. The ’80s-inspired lead single “Espresso” sailed to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 last summer, soon to be overtaken by the No. 1 “Please Please Please,” a synthpop/country hybrid co-written and produced by Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff. A third single, the Fleetwood Mac-esque “Taste,” was on its heels, reaching No. 2.

The rest of the album, featuring collaborations with Antonoff and One Direction collaborators John Ryan and Julian Bunetta, was a deliciously campy affair, featuring laugh-out-loud, borderline unprintable sexual metaphors (“Bed Chem,” “Juno”) and snappy pleas to would be lovers (“Slim PIckins,” “Good Graces”). A No. 1 hit on both sides of the Atlantic, Short ‘N’ Sweet established Carpenter as one of pop’s next big things, and earned the rare distinction of nabbing her Grammy nominations in all four major categories (even if the Best New Artist nod, which she lost to Chappell Roan, was classic Grammy math).

Get your copy at the links below.

Short ‘N’ Sweet (Deluxe) (originally released as Island 00602465895261, 2024 – reissued Island, 2025)

Official Store: CD / 2LP (blue) / 2LP (white – exclusive)

Taste
Please Please Please
Good Graces
Sharpest Tool
Coincidence
Bed Chem
Espresso
Dumb & Poetic
Slim Pickins
Juno
Lie to Girls
Don’t Smile
15 Minutes *
Please Please Please (feat. Dolly Parton) *
Couldn’t Make It Any Harder *
Busy Woman **
Bad Reviews *

* new track
** released on Short ‘N’ Sweet(er) digital edition on official web site – Island (no cat. #), 2024

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