Sabrina Carpenter didn’t come here for nonsense.
The music superstar clapped back at her critics who said she didn’t sing live on her Short n’ Sweet Tour. In a video posted to TikTok, one user claimed that footage of Carpenter performing her song “Please Please” was evidence that she was lip-syncing.
“Hate to say it’s 30% lip syncing [sic] 30% musical accompaniment, 40% singing,” this person wrote along with the video.
Carpenter saw the footage and clapped back at the assertion that she does not sing live at her shows.
“I sing live at every show 100%. Do you want to talk to my sound engineer?” she asked the TikTok user.
The original poster responded to Carpenter’s comment: “I would ask them to lower the background music because it’s too high.”
Carpenter’s comments came as she was listed in his year TIMEThe 100 Next list, honors rising stars in every field and is featured on one of their three covers.
Her cover issue appears on October 4, and in the issue Carpenter also discusses her struggle to break into the mainstream music scene in the years leading up to her sixth album, Short and sweetmaking her one of the biggest artists of the year.
“For a long time, I was constantly guided and headed in the wrong direction. I’m so grateful for all the times I got lost, because now I’m so much better equipped to face situations where I have to trust my own instincts,” she said. TIME.
Prior to the release of Short n’ Sweet, Carpenter’s highest charting album Billboard The 200 chart is for 2022 Emails I can’t sendpeaking at number 23. Similarly, its singles were only moderately successful with the album’s highest peaking single, “Feather”, only reaching number 21 on the chart. Billboard Hot100 chart. There are only two other albums by her, Evolution And Eyes wide openentered the top 50 at positions 28 and 43 respectively.
Over the past year, Carpenter has scored three top 10 hits with “Espresso,” “Please Please” and “Taste.” “Please Please” became her first song to reach number 1 on the charts Billboard Hot 100 chart when released.
Carpenter will perform at the TIMEThe next 100 event is in New York City on October 9.
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