Sabrina Cinematic Universe
The Dave Meyers-directed visual for Carpenter’s latest Short n’ Sweet single finds the impossible to kill pair tormenting each other with chainsaws, voodoo dolls, and machetes
In the video for Sabrina Carpenter‘s latest Short n’ Sweet single, “Taste,” the singer finds herself in a bloody spat with Jenna Ortega. The impossible-to-kill pair torments each other with chainsaws, voodoo dolls, and machetes throughout the visual — but in the accompanying behind-the-scenes video, they’re a giggling mess with hysterical fake injuries.
“In the Sabrina Cinematic Universe, women never die. Men, unfortunately, suffer most of the loss,” Carpenter says at the start of the clip. “This video, in particular, it’s almost comical how the women still don’t die.”
The behind-the-scenes also unveils the sketches that laid out the plot for the Dave Meyers-directed music video. It traces everything from Carpenter being impaled by a white picket fence to Ortega using a crazed-looking voodoo doll to set the singer on fire. “Why am I balding?” she questions about the thin-haired rag doll.
The gruesome “Taste” video arrived last week alongside the release of Short n’ Sweet. “So proud and excited for you sweet girl,” Ortega wrote in a note to Carpenter on Instagram. “Absolutely loved making this one, thank you for having me. How special. I’d kill for you whenever.”
In a separate post, Carpenter wrote: “This song is so special to me and I’m incredibly grateful to everyone that helped me bring one of my most ambitious videos to life. I had one person in mind for this and that was the one and only @jennaortega. Watching her on screen is a true dream come true and I’m so inspired, impressed, and amazed by her.”
Meyers added: “Guilty pleasure doing camp horror with these two. Unforgettably fun couple of days.”
Music videos give Carpenter a chance to slip back into the kind of acting roles that filled her schedule while she waited for the world to catch up to her music. Now, the studio takes priority over any stage or set. “I never had the plan B, and it wasn’t even a thought in my mind that it wouldn’t work out,” she told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “I just always knew it was about not if it would happen but when it would happen.”
