Just hours after the release of their new album Short & SweetSabrina Carpenter released the music video for “Taste” on Friday (August 23) – but there is nothing sweet about the Death suits her well-inspired carnage that ensues visually, unless you count the unlikely friendship she forms at the end.
The video begins with Carpenter singing a spooky lullaby: “Rock-a-bye, Baby, snug in your bed/ Right now you are sleeping, and soon you’ll be dead.”
She then sneaks into her ex-boyfriend’s house to hack his new girlfriend – played by Jenna Ortega – to pieces with a machete before realizing that the Wednesday The actress had set up a dummy in the bed. Ortega jumps out of his hiding place and starts shooting at Carpenter with a rifle, causing her to fall out of the second-story window and the singer to be impaled on the fence below.
Thus begins a bloody catfight between the two ladies, who keep rising from the dead – just like in the Oscar-winning 1992 film with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn – involving hospital defibrillators used as weapons, voodoo dolls and Ortega chopping off Carpenter’s arm after the latter bursts into the shower of Carpenter and her nameless boyfriend. The whole thing culminates in the “Nonsense” singer and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice The star has a steamy make-out session by the pool before Ortega accidentally murders their toyboy duo with a chainsaw.
“I heard you guys are back together, and if that’s true, you’ve got to taste me when he kisses you,” Carpenter sings. “If you want eternity, I bet you do, then you know you’ll taste me too.”
At the funeral of their dead love, the girls realize that they are better off as friends than enemies. “Very insecure,” Ortega complains about her lover who became a murder victim, to which Carpenter replies with a giggle, “Very insecure! You’re killing me.”
The Dave Meyers-directed project is the third music video in Carpenter’s Short & Sweet era, following the visuals for the hit “Espresso” and the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “Please Please Please,” which starred her boyfriend, actor Barry Keoghan. The new album is the musician’s sixth studio album, following 2022’s “Please Please Please.” Emails I can’t sendwhich reached number 23 on the Billboard 200.
Watch the “Taste” music video above.
