Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega kiss and murder each other in the “Taste” video

Sabrina Carpenter is “evil” in her new music video.

On Friday, August 23, the 25-year-old pop singer not only released her new album Short and sweetbut a visual for her latest single “Taste,” which co-stars Jenna Ortega.

The music video, directed by Dave Meyers, features Carpenter and the Beetlejuice 2 Actress, 21, murder each other repeatedly and kiss.

At the beginning of the video, the “Nonsense” singer approaches a pink bed full of murder instruments and grabs a knife, which she uses as a mirror while applying lipstick. She then runs into a mansion where she tries to You Actress who she believes is in bed with her husband.

However, it is a deception, and Ortega shows up with a shotgun and shoots Carpenter over a balcony. The pair duel in the hospital, with voodoo dolls, and in the shower.

While Ortega appears to be kissing her “beloved friend,” he turns into Carpenter, whom she dismembers with a chainsaw. (She quickly realizes that she actually killed her boyfriend.) At the end of the video, the two attend his funeral in black mourning clothes and leave giggling with smoothies in hand.

The video contains a number of cheesy horror references, with Carpenter and Ortega wearing similar vampire dresses and bouncy hairstyles to Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep in 1992’s “The Last Man.” Death suits her well. The Wednesday Star wears a similar nurse costume as Daryl Hannah in Kill Billwhile the “Feather” artist is impaled on a fence like in a scene from the 2000s Ginger cookies. There is also an ominous shower scene that resembles the 1960 classic Psycho.

In June, Carpenter released the music video for the Jack Antonoff-produced single “Please Please Please,” which featured another actor – her boyfriend Barry Keoghan.

In the video, 31-year-old Keoghan appears in most of the music video, but in the lyrics, Carpenter even makes direct reference to his profession, singing: “I heard you’re an actor, so act like a decent guy.”

The music video begins with the aspiring singer-songwriter being released from prison, which seems to be a reference to the arrest at the end of her music video “Espresso,” before she locks eyes with a fellow inmate (Keoghan).

Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

Throughout the video, Carpenter references famous movie criminals, including Bonnie and Clyde. But Keoghan’s character is quickly released and the couple’s romance intensifies.

Later, Big girl The actress begs Keoghan when he returns to his criminal activities.

“Please, please, please don’t prove me right,” Carpenter sings. “And please, please, please don’t make me cry when I’ve just put on my makeup. Heartbreak is one thing, my ego is another. I’m begging you, don’t embarrass me, you asshole. Please, please, please.”