Jenna Ortega Weighs In On Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’

Jenna Ortega and Sabrina Carpenter are the latest dynamic pair grabbing consideration. Their headline-making moments started with Carpenter’s launch of the “Style” music video, that includes the “Wednesday” actress.

The 2 have clearly developed a robust friendship, with Jenna Ortega not too long ago expressing her assist for Sabrina Carpenter and her new album.

Carpenter has absolutely embraced her “Quick n’ Candy” period, launching it with the 2024 summer time hit “Espresso,” which shortly went viral. Simply two months later, her single “Please Please Please” soared to the highest of the charts, incomes her first No. 1 hit within the U.S.

Final week, she launched the total album, “Quick n’ Candy,” and followers are already obsessed. The album’s opening observe, “Style,” has taken the internet by storm, particularly resulting from its music video, which is a dramatic revenge saga the place Carpenter, 25, performs a girl who’s going after her ex, portrayed by “Halloween” star Rohan Campbell, who’s now with one other lady, performed by 21-year-old Jenna Ortega.

Carpenter’s character goes to excessive lengths, stalking Ortega, breaking into her dwelling, and even attempting to kill her, whereas singing the lyrics, “You’ll simply must style me when he’s kissing you.”

Ortega isn’t one to again down, nonetheless, and she or he matches Carpenter’s depth with a collection of fierce confrontations, together with scenes the place she units Carpenter on fireplace, chops off her arm, throws her out a window, and impales her on a picket fence.

When attending the premiere of her new film, “Beetlejuice,” Ortega was requested how she feels about Carpenter’s new album.

“Oh my god, I feel it is stunning, great, wonderful,” the actress said. “She’s unbelievable.”

Forward of its launch, Carpenter spoke with Jimmy Fallon, the place she dished on the video’s inspiration.“[The video] was impressed by certainly one of my favourite movies, and she or he was an enormous fan of the movie,” she mentioned of Ortega. “I’m so excited for you guys to see this video, you haven’t any thought. I feel it’s my favourite one I’ve ever executed.”

The previous Disney Channel star additionally talked about her album’s title, telling the late-night speak present host, “It does actually really feel like a self-titled album to me, in a bizarre manner. It actually simply appears like all of those tales and reminiscences — simply very blunt, very ahead, very enjoyable and simply among the finest reminiscences I’ve had.”

After listening to the whole album, many followers suspect that some tracks reference her rumored relationship with Shawn Mendes. For example, in “Style,” the singer appears to throw shade at Mendes and his shirtless photographs with the lyrics, “You are wonderin’ why half his garments went missin’ / My physique’s the place they at.”

Moreover, when Carpenter and Ortega kill the person within the video, many followers couldn’t assist however discover the putting similarities to Mendes’ ‘Surprise’ cowl.

Moreover, the observe “Sharpest Instrument” seems to focus on an ex for rekindling a previous romance, which may very well be geared toward Mendes. Mendes was seen sharing a kiss with Camila Cabello in April 2023, simply two months after Carpenter was rumored to be spending time with him.

Along with “Style” and her two newest hits, “Please Please Please” and “Espresso,” Carpenter’s new album additionally options the tracks “Sharpest Instruments,” “Coincidence,” “Good Graces,” “Slim Pickins,” “Juno,” “Mislead Women,” “Mattress Chem,” “Dumb & Poetic,” and “Don’t Smile.”

“It’s my second ‘huge woman’ album,” she advised Variety forward of its launch. “It’s a companion, however it’s not the identical. In the case of having full artistic management and being a full-fledged grownup, I might take into account this a sophomore album.”

“Quick n’ Candy” is out now.