Coachella<\/a> along with Karol G and Justin Bieber. Here are the seven best moments from Sunday\u2019s concert:<\/p>\n1.<\/b> Turns out that earlier visit to the Lakers\u2019 home wasn\u2019t quite as cheery as it seemed then. \u201cThis time last year, when I played this show, I was going through it,\u201d Carpenter told the crowd Sunday night. \u201cI was not in a good headspace, and thankfully because of that I was able to write a whole new album for you guys this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMan\u2019s Best Friend\u201d follows Carpenter\u2019s breakup with the Irish actor Barry Keoghan, whom she seems to refer to in her song \u201cGo Go Juice\u201d when she threatens to drunk-dial an ex named Larry. \u201cSo thank you for Crypto last year,\u201d she added, \u201c\u2019cause you really inspired \u2018Man\u2019s Best Friend\u2019 and what was to come after that.\u201d<\/p>\n
2.<\/b> Carpenter didn\u2019t sing \u201cGo Go Juice\u201d on Sunday, though she did throw a few tunes from \u201cMan\u2019s Best Friend\u201d into a set list still dominated by material from \u201cShort n\u2019 Sweet.\u201d (\u201cShort n\u2019 Sweet\u201d is the better of the two albums, so this was fine.)<\/p>\n
For the lightly country-fied \u201cManchild,\u201d the singer and her dancers did a cute little line dance, and Carpenter\u2019s live band powered \u201cTears\u201d with some appealingly skanky disco-funk energy. The evening\u2019s surprise song \u2014 the product of a regular bit in which Carpenter selects a tune via spin the bottle \u2014 was the new album\u2019s \u201cNobody\u2019s Son,\u201d which emulates Ace of Base\u2019s Nordic reggae more precisely than anyone else has in the past 30 years.<\/p>\n
3.<\/b> In one of the show\u2019s other recurring bits, Carpenter pretended to arrest one of her opening acts, Amber Mark, with a pair of fuzzy pink handcuffs before singing the very horny \u201cJuno.\u201d That song features Carpenter simulating a different sexual position every night; here, well, you can look it up on TikTok.<\/p>\n
4.<\/b> Shout out to Carpenter\u2019s guitar player, Caleb Nelson, whose ripping solo in \u201cJuno\u201d made the tune sound just like the theme from \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210.\u201d<\/p>\n
5.<\/b> \u201cI\u2019m gonna give you a little bit of history that you didn\u2019t ask for,\u201d Carpenter said about halfway through the concert, which ended up being a selective rundown of gigs she\u2019s played in L.A. since she was a teenager on the Disney Channel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played the Roxy when I was 16, and then I think played the Wiltern,\u201d she said. \u201cThen I played the Fonda and then the Wiltern again. And then I went to the \u2026 the Greek! Went to the Greek, of course \u2014 that was the best night ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
6.<\/b> It says something about Carpenter\u2019s commitment to the concept of her show, which takes place in the various rooms of a late-\u201960s\/early-\u201970s-style bachelorette pad, that after dozens of tour dates she\u2019s still performing one of her most emotionally cutting songs, \u201cSharpest Tool,\u201d while sitting on a toilet.<\/p>\n
7.<\/b> Carpenter closed, as she always does, with \u201cEspresso,\u201d and if you\u2019d assumed that by now this breezy electro-pop bop would inevitably have lost some of its fizz, think again. \u201cI\u2019m working late \u2019cause I\u2019m a singer,\u201d she sang as she strutted down a runway jutting onto the arena floor. It\u2019s a task she\u2019s still up to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter brought her latest world tour in for a landing Sunday night at Crypto.com Arena, where the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":385956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[15161,1582,276,6362,184307,184305,12975,2961,184309,224,5337,2089,4158,15160,4370,19514,80095,184306,184308,1628],"class_list":{"0":"post-385955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-best-friend","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crypto","12":"tag-few-tune","13":"tag-good-moment","14":"tag-juno","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-landing-sunday-night","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-man","20":"tag-return","21":"tag-sabrina-carpenter","22":"tag-show","23":"tag-song","24":"tag-sweet","25":"tag-vocal-album","26":"tag-whole-new-album","27":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115566898361658640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}