Sabrina Carpenter Announces Her New Album ‘Short n’ Sweet’

Sabrina Carpenter woke up and dream came true’d it for us this morning when she revealed that her sixth studio album, Short n’ Sweet will be out before the summer’s end.

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“Short n’ Sweet MY NEW ALBUM IS COMING OUT AUGUST 23rd!!!!💋 this project is quite special to me and i hope it’ll be something special to you too,” she wrote on Instagram. “You can preorder it now!”

Not only that, but the pop star teased that fans can expect a surprise much sooner than the August 23rd release date (if we had to guess, it’ll likely be her next single). “I also have a surprise coming for you on thursday night so keep an eye out!!” the Disney alum wrote.

Carpenter has already been dominating the internet and the airwaves with her bouncy earworm “Espresso,” so we’re betting that Short n’ Sweet will be full of bops. Here’s everything we know about the singer’s sixth studio album.

Short n’ Sweet arrives on August 23

Fans knew something was up the day before Carpenter announced her sixth studio album, when the singer shared a super mysterious video to her Instagram. In the clip, Carpenter rocked a body-hugging sky blue bodysuit as she walked up to the camera and planted a cherry-coloured kiss on the screen.

Turns out, this clip was a wink to Carpenter’s album cover for Short n’ Sweet, where she poses in front of a blue backdrop and peers over her shoulder, with a stark kissy mark painted on her back.

The singer revealed her sixth studio album cover, and the release date (August 23) with an excited post, where she wrote, “MY NEW ALBUM IS COMING OUT AUGUST 23rd!!!!💋
this project is quite special to me and i hope it’ll be something special to you too.”

“Espresso” will be featured on the album’s tracklist and serves as the first single

When Carpenter first released her world-dominating hit “Espresso,” she casually tried to act like it was just a bonus treat for fans. “Just wanted to put out a little song before Coachella,” the singer wrote on Instagram.

Turns out, the quotable track is actually the first single from the album, and its inclusion was confirmed on Carpenter’s website, when pre-orders of the album listed the song as one of the tracks (unfortunately, Carpenter has yet to reveal the rest of the tracklist).

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This album will mark a shift for Sabrina’s music

While “Espresso” is the only taste of Short n’ Sweet that fans have gotten so far, it seems fair to assume that Carpenter’s sixth studio album will mark somewhat of a shift for the singer.

In fact, when she sat for an interview with Cosmopolitan, the Girl Meets World alum talked about the process behind making her new album. In reference to her fifth studio album, Emails I Can’t Send, she said, “Well, I feel so grateful that I’ve been able to tour an album that I really care about for almost two years and that my fans have given it a life longer than I ever could have asked for. I put two and a half years into making this album, and it’s a shitty feeling when you put so much time into something and people want something new in two months. So I’m trying to really take this experience in before moving on to the next thing.

However, she then added: “But I’ve been working on the next thing for a minute. I’m starting to feel like I’ve outgrown the songs I’m singing, which is always an exciting feeling because I think that means the next chapter is right around the corner.”

Meanwhile, on Carpenter’s site, the new release was teased with a description that read, “Short n’ Sweet showcases the scintillating spirit of Sabrina Carpenter, the pocket-sized popstar with a larger than life artistic presence. With a gold album & multiple platinum singles under her belt, it’s no wonder that ‘Espresso’, the debut single from the forthcoming album, has it all: lyrics that make you giggle & blush and songwriting that makes you wish you’d thought of it first.”

Yes, the title is partly a reference to Sabrina’s height.

Carpenter, who stands at 4’ 11’’, is no stranger to the fact that she’s not that tall. In fact, during an interview with Cosmopolitan, she talked about her time as an opener for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, saying, “And it’s been a very tall order being on a stage that big because—and this is not even to sound like a pick-me, like when girls are like ‘I’m so small, I can’t reach the top shelf’—I’m literally 5 feet tall. So sometimes when I’m on that stage, it feels so huge that I just have to be larger than life in some capacity.”

Meanwhile, as part of the promotion for the new LP, Carpenter had billboards put up across the country that featured humorous tweets about her height, like one that read, “When I say I hate short people, Sabrina Carpenter is NEVER included.”

Fans can likely expect another single soon.

While it wasn’t until now that we knew “Espresso” was part of Carpenter’s next major project, it seems likely that fans will be served another single very soon.

The strongest indication was when Carpenter announced the new LP, and she put a cheeky note in her caption that said: “I also have a surprise coming for you on thursday night so keep an eye out!!” Guess we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled on Thursday, June 6.

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Will there be a coinciding tour?

Although nothing has been confirmed yet, Carpenter seemed eager to hit the road again when she talked about opening for the Eras Tour. “I feel so lucky that I get to watch Taylor perform every time,” she told Cosmopolitan. “It makes me want to tour the world again, which is a good feeling.” Hmm, seems to us like she might be hinting at something. But we’ll still be keeping an eye out for an official announcement.

This article originally appeared in Harper’s BAZAAR US.