‘Please Please Please’ Plan Your Romantic Outlaw Date, And We’ll Give You Your Sabrina Carpenter-Themed Prison Belongings

Sabrina Carpenter’s not sugar but spice-stirred ‘Espresso’ endorsement is also summer-seasoned for prison cells. One cell in particular. The Barbie-stylized songstress sits with her shaggedly, long blond hair creeping down a familiar shade of blue dress. The last time we had seen her, her legs were draped over the back of a police car’s front seat, a wink threw when the first few hinting seconds of ‘Please Please Please’ sounded through its speakers.

That sneaks us into the now. Going down left, no right, no left, honestly, we can’t tell directions either, Sabs, or the hallway until she’s picking up her baggie of belongings. They’re all Short n’ Sweet coded, of course (that’s her new album coming out in August!) It starts with the ‘Espresso’ glasses, the sepia-toned reflection of brazen boys often appearing in them. Then, her nostalgic good luck charm, unsurprisingly even bails her out of tricky situations, is the S.C. inscribed ring. And finally, if she can’t crack the code to 24/7 glossed lips, then not even Prada Beauty can, with a tube of lipstick matching the album’s color scheme. She’s constantly re-applying, even using the prison’s reception glass as a reflection. That’s our Elle Woods!

Whether in or out of prison (it’s for the plot, guys, come on), Sabrina Carpenter is a certified legend. So, since we’ve crowned her as such, we should also carry out similar things to reach her status. Right? That’s usually how these sorts of things occur. Or maybe we’re just stanning her hard right now. Either way, we’ve whipped up an interactive quiz that takes you through the ‘Please Please Please’ music video directed by Bardia Zeinali. We’ll be telling you what’s exactly in your specific belongings baggie by choosing one of the options in each category. 

“Good Taste” Fashion

Sabrina isn’t just serving club-yeehaw but also various looks, pulling out something new from her wardrobe in almost every scene until it looks more like an early 2000s fashion montage. The only piece that stays consistent is her thigh-high laced stocking. In the name of breaking the law, which look are you stealing from her?

1. Adorning yourself in Alaïa, a silky, thigh-high dark blue hooded dress that shows off your feathered fringe, accessorized with nose-perched black sunglasses. 
2. Forever channeling a pop star girlies (accompanying Sabrina in fashionable coats are Eras Tour buddy, Taylor Swift, and slaying the music video scene together, Ariana Grande) lookbook with a pink Alexandre Vauthier Couture coat. Hair in a messy updo, silver hoops flowing down one’s ear, and a ribbon choker around one’s neck. 
3. Or an on-the-nose hint that you’re not-so-innocent with a black color scape, complete in custom Coach. A leather jacket that’s so 80s exile and a matching flower-mesh bralette and skirt.

One thing that came up regarding fashion was this idea of the lover having one look throughout and not changing to reflect his character’s lack of evolution, but then her constantly changing and looking different and playing these different roles. I wanted every time we saw her with him in a new scene to be a different version of herself. She’s changing, he’s not, but she’s staying regardless. 

Bardia Zeinali for Vogue

Fugitive FM For All Your Nightcrawl Needs 

Since Sabrina knows you’ve memorized her resume (“I’m working late ’cause I’m a singer”), she’s moved on to brisking through her boyfriend Barry Keoghan’s. Just with a slight tongue-in-cheek twist: “I heard that you’re an actor, so act like a stand-up guy.” Now that we’ve mentioned one of our favorite lyrics, pick one of yours: 

1.  “I tell them it’s just your culture, and everyone rolls their eyes”
2. “And we could live so happily if no one knows that you’re with me”
3.  “If you don’t wanna cry to my music / Don’t make me hate you prolifically”

A Salt Circle Brings Out The Devil In You 

Some of our favorite romantic tropes are friends to lovers, slow-burns until we’re practically screaming at the screen for the two to get together. But we’re leaving one off the list: bandits. Throw in the problem that one loves to be pampered, yet the other is a genuine troublemaker. We won’t be thinking twice then they start questioning if they’re actually over their head. The flags aren’t just red but are barbwired in prison bars. Choose your favorite Barry antic:

1. When a restaurant date turns into a roughen-up with the mafia, leading you with him to the back.
2. It’s the perfect setting for a character A and B meme drawing. The camera zooms out, revealing the first brandishing a gun while the second is utterly disinterested. She’s just a spectator, watching the bank teller mechanically stuff money into a bag for her date.
3. Or it’s not fun and games anymore when a police officer throws your date out of an arcade. 

‘Espresso’ — ‘Please Please Please’ Version

Mother like daughter, Sabrina clearly graduated the Easter egg university taught by professor Taylor Swift! Choose your favorite from the bunch:

1. Pun-intended the signs really were always there! In this case, Sabrina first dropped the track title on a poster held up by her BFF Paloma Sandoval at Coachella. The words themselves (“Please! Please! Please! Play Espresso!”) weren’t the only clue but also the blue and red shading in of the letters, signifying two ideas.
2. Our masterful storyteller, this isn’t Sabrina’s first foray into storytelling continuation. For ‘Skinny Dipping,’ the ‘Fast Times’ music video rocked up when one Sabrina laid out on the road, notes littered out from a “This too shall pass” box. The silhouette of her ex was drawn out next to it.
3. It turns out Sabrina’s not entering her makeup tutorial era but rather stirring up early lyrical references. In a TikTok uploaded on the 27th of June 2022 (yes, two years ago), she outlines her best trick: no tears ruined my face beat. Obviously, the lyric in question is “Don’t bring me to tеars when I just did my makeup so nice,” and we’re not even going to mention that she’s wearing a pale blue tank top. Nope, it’ll cause too much of a brain explosion!

Short n’ Sweet, Here Are Your Belongings!

Sometimes, there’s a try-and-return policy on our gone-sour romantic crushes. If that’s the case, Sabrina’s already miles ahead, even for you. Although seemingly throughout the music video, he’s the one who’s in charge, there’s always some time for role reversal. She seduces him under the siren gaze of bright red police lights, handcuffing his hands so the cops can throw him back into jail. It truly stamps female rights and all that jazz in the tile card that pops up afterward, pleas dropping into dominos underneath each other. She’s begging for us to listen to her!

Oh, and ‘Please Please Please’ before you leave them in their prison cell, collect your personal belongings. Who else would’ve bailed you out than Sabrina, funded by all the streaming we’ve done for the single thus far? If you mainly picked 1s, the ‘Please Please Please’ gold necklace will adorn every sea-blue outfit you own. How about 2s? The adorably sassy “Don’t Embrass Me” trucker hat, a slanted, censoring love heart accompanying a naughty word. Then, for 3s, why wear lingerie? We can always be the lazily hilarious insert job title here ___ in an ode to Sabrina name-dropping professions we are by ironing it onto a t-shirt.

“Honey Bee” Hotline

Sabrina’s how-to-outrun-an-outlaw tutorial has us clicking delete on the other dating apps on our phones. Instead, we’re genuinely going old school here and deciding to shudder as we say it, ring a hotline. Yep! 1-800-S-A-B-R-I-N-A’s the only reliable place for exorcising the player out of our crushes, turning them into the standup “honey bee” we know they always could be. However, as tempting as it sounds to hear the ‘Please Please Please” instrumental loop, to skip the phone queue, hit the notification bell on our Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts. The eye is watching us in Sabrina’s Tour Planning Services iconography as much as we’re snooping through the page to see those imminent Short n’ Sweet tour dates drop. 

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