Sabrina Carpenter took the stage on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards amid hypothesis about her previous with Shawn Mendes.
The songstress, 25 — who’s nominated for six VMAs, together with Artist of the 12 months, Finest Pop, Music of the 12 months and Finest Enhancing for “Espresso” and Finest Course and Finest Artwork Course for “Please Please Please” — carried out a medley of “Please Please Please,” “Style” and “Espresso” through the ceremony, which came about at UBS Enviornment in New York on Wednesday, September 11. Carpenter, who rocked a glittery white bodysuit, was flanked by dancers dressed as astronauts.
Mendes, 26, was in attendance on Wednesday, acting on the VMAs stage moments earlier.
Carpenter’s VMAs look comes weeks after the discharge of her Brief n’ Candy album, which followers speculated was impressed by her temporary romance with Mendes. The pair have been first noticed collectively in February 2023, sparking courting rumors. After they attended the Vainness Truthful Oscars Celebration individually the next month, Leisure Tonight reported that they have been an merchandise, however Mendes denied that he was courting Carpenter.
Mendes subsequently rekindled his relationship with Camila Cabello — whom he initially dated from 2019 to 2021 — after they have been seen kissing at Coachella in April 2023. Mendes and Cabello, 27, in the end cut up for good in June 2023, with a supply solely telling Us Weekly on the time that Cabello was the one who “determined to finish issues” and Mendes was “very upset” that they may not make it work.
Carpenter’s followers seen obvious nods to the state of affairs on Brief n’ Candy. For one, the title of the album refers to “a few of these relationships and the way a few of them have been the shortest I’ve ever had and so they affected me essentially the most,” she instructed Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.
The lyrics of “Coincidence” addressed a person who obtained again collectively along with his ex shortly after a cut up.
“The second I put my head in your chest / She knew, she’s obtained an actual sixth sense,” Carpenter sang. “Now her title comes up as soon as, then it comes up twice / And with out her even bein’ right here, she’s again in your life / Now she’s in the identical rattling metropolis on the identical rattling night time.”
The only “Style” despatched a message to an ex’s new girlfriend with the strains, “I heard you’re again collectively and if that’s true / You’ll simply need to style me when he’s kissin’ you / If you’d like without end, I wager you do / Simply know you’ll style me too.”
The music video for “Style” fanned the flames with Jenna Ortega starring because the girlfriend of Carpenter’s ex-boyfriend.
Amid the rumors surrounding Carpenter’s musical inspiration, MTV confirmed that Carpenter, Mendes and Cabello would all carry out on the 2024 VMAs. Cabello was additionally nominated for Finest Pop and Finest Trending Video on the ceremony and is predicted to carry out later through the broadcast.