Inside Sabrina Carpenter’s Sabrinawood Coachella Performance, From Famous Guest Stars to Its Stacked Setlist
2 min readTHE RUNDOWN
- Sabrina Carpenter played her first headlining show at Coachella.
- The singer performed songs from her latest studio albums, Man’s Best Friend and Short ‘n Sweet.
- Ahead of the weekend, she told Perfect magazine that the set was “the most ambitious show I’ve ever done.”
Sabrina Carpenter headlined the first night of Coachella, and she certainly put on a show. The star had a setlist that drew from her latest albums Man’s Best Friend, Short n’ Sweet, and she performed “We Almost Broke Up Last Night” for the first time. She had an elaborate set design honoring the Hollywood Hills, including her own “Sabrinawood” sign.
Carpenter surprised the audience with some of her favorite stars, with a film intro that included Landman’s Sam Elliot, appearances from Will Ferrell and Samuel L. Jackson, and an interlude starring Susan Sarandon as an older version of Carpenter, plus a cameo from her Girl Meets World costar Corey Fogelmanis.
Fans quickly posted footage from her performance:
They also shared her full setlist:
Some of her biggest fans were her friends. Hailey Bieber, Kylie Jenner, and Blackpink’s Rosé all posted from their view of her stage.
Ahead of her performance, Carpenter told Marc Jacobs for Perfect magazine that she had put a lot of effort into her Coachella set. “It’s the most ambitious show I’ve ever done,” she said. “It’s probably the most time I’ve ever had to actually just sit down and talk about a show as I’m building it. Most of the time, you’re really quickly thrust into physical rehearsals, but this time around we started this process around seven months ago. So it’s been a long journey. It will be very special.”
She recounted her past experiences there, saying, “I’ve played, but not as a headliner. I was playing sunset, around 5:30 P.M. on the main stage two years ago. That was a really special day for me, the day my song ‘Espresso’ came out. I got to play that for the first time at Coachella. And now, two years later, we’re back. And I think that’s what makes this show feel really, really surreal: getting to celebrate all the songs that have come after it, and just how many lives they’ve lived since they’ve come out.”