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In Defense of Sabrina Carpenter’s Nonsense

Some music is just fun.
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Sabrina Carpenter performs onstage during the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

If you tuned into pop radio stations last summer, you probably heard plenty of Sabrina Carpenter, the 26-year-old glam, blonde pop star who at the time was dominating playlists. Indeed, Taylor Swift herself dubbed summer 2024 the “Summer of Sabrina,” after Carpenter joined Swift as an opening act on the groundbreaking Eras tour.

LuElla D’Amico is an associate professor of English and coordinator of women’s and gender studies at the University of the Incarnate Word. She is the author of Wondrous Reading: Encountering the Catholic Faith in Children’s Literature and writes widely on faith, girlhood, pop culture, and storytelling.

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